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A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come. Preacher Graham Hess loses his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident. He lives with his children and brother in a farmhouse. Crop circles start to appear in their cornfields; Graham dismisses them as mischief by miscreants. After hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world, the family grows suspicious of alien activities. Now they must stick together as a family and believe, to survive and escape the ordeal.
Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin and many other fine actors.
A bit of movie trivia.
01: The artwork in the book about extraterrestrials was done by writer and director M. Night Shyamalan's daughter, Saleka Shyamalan.
02: The crop circles are real, as M. Night Shyamalan doesn't particularly like using CGI.
03: Mel Gibson didn't realize Shyamalan was playing the vet until the day that they came to shoot their scenes together.
💎【Movie Review】💎 M. Night Shyamalan created a remarkable masterpiece of science fiction like the greats before him. Without bloody body parts 7 gore to make a pig sick. The greater picture of the film is the crop signs that suddenly and quickly start appearing worldwide - and the question of whether they mean anything for mankind as a whole. But once the greater picture is laid out in the first twenty minutes, it takes a complete backseat to Shyamalan's happy & pained family of four, and focuses on their feelings, their worries, their doubts; as the horror of what's transpiring in the greater picture creeps closer to them.
For me, the sci-fi aspects were a device to explore the lost faith of the Mel Gibson character, a man who had abandoned the ministry after a tragedy struck his family. The film asks the questions, are we alone in the world (and he's not talking about aliens) and is there such a thing as a coincidence? In one particularly striking scene, as he talks with his brother, Gibson's bitterness comes through. I happen to think there's a place for spirituality in film and I love Night's take on it. I also like his old-fashioned type of film-making, the way he pays homage to the greats and the way he surprises us. Night believes we don't listen enough, and if we do, there are messages abounding for us. I'd rather see this than a pretentious, dark, depressing film that pretends to say something.
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