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Edited on Wed Jul-19-06 09:24 AM by Arkham House
...admittedly, I figured out that Bruce was alive in "Sixth Sense" the moment that kid said "I see dead people". But it *is* fun to see the pieces come together, and you *do* have to go along with the joke...every mystery book or movie would fall apart, if you looked at them too closely. (IE--nobody looked at the corpse, in "Vertigo"? Was the chaffeur murdered, in "The Big Sleep"? And "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", with its famous solution, is so unlikely a critic recently wrote a whole book, suggesting that someone *other* than the narrator killed Ackroyd, after all...) In "The Village", I guessed what was happening immediately, when we saw the burial in the beginning, with a headstone showing a death date of "1897"...and aha, thought I, that's a red herring, it must really be now, the 21st century...and you know, it didn't affect my enjoyment of the film a whit...seeing it come together was fun, and knowing that the "elders" were modern people in Victorian fancy dress gave the film an interesting dimension as I watched it. BUT--I will give you "Signs". This simply did not work, and you're right about the ending--a disappointment. I'll certainly see "Lady in the Water", and hope for the best...
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