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How could their fate affect the fate of the natural disasters?
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Okay, yeah, that's fair. That's funny about the airplanes spiraling vs. gliding. The average viewer has no idea.
It was very dramatic. Even if they changed it to a more realistic way of handling an epic change in the electromagnetic field — or whatever caused the airplanes to fall — I still would have believed the events are natural in an already existing timeline due to naturally explainable causes.
I completely agree with your last sentence. That was why I thought it was lame. It wasn't an ambiguous ending. The news reports confirmed the timing of these catastrophes very explicitly. If the ending were more ambiguous, then it would have some merit, and the rewatchability would be there, and the film would invite some stronger ongoing discussions.
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Plot hole!
Maybe Earth was the only other planet with life. You'd think M. Night would have addressed this, if not implicitly in the movie, then in an interview.
Who knows!
Great question.
I don't remember it being explicitly addressed, so that's another unanswered one.
But, according to my husband (who was able to pay better attention to this film than I was, as I was wrangling our baby during the movie), anyway — so, my husband noticed that they said that the catastrophes were triggered by their deaths.
Oh, and they'd stop having their nightmarish visions if they could prevent the catastrophes from happening.
But it didn't address what would happen if they let things play out as-is, without intervening.
You'd think that if they knew their own death would trigger the next disaster, that they would withhold killing themselves?! Or no?
I agree that the ending was weak, and that was 100% on M. Night Shyamalan. It was his written ending. He's a hopeful guy and he likes to express optimism in his scary/thriller movies.
I think it was a wrong decision.
Actually, the book's ending could have conveyed hopefulness, just as well, but it's not as utilitarian and optimistic as M. Night's ending. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Someone else posted in this forum about the book ending, so that's my source.
I agree with the OP, the ending was weak.
The book ending was much stronger. In so many ways, actually!
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Same, that was the reason.
I guess it's still up to interpretation regardless, because while one person may say the natural disasters are simply that — natural, based on Earthly causes — someone else may say they were caused by a deity of some sort. :/
If only there were an upvote or a "kudos" button, because you deserve many for this comment.
I was under the impression that M. Night had some deeper beliefs to express — at least, he expressed some in his 3-part Unbreakable, Glass, and Split — but I guess I was wrong, and he's not as deep as he thinks he is. On another note, I hope Hollywood isn't holding him back. He still has so much potential to convey some powerful messages.
Oh, that's way better, lol. Way bleaker.
M. Night, why change those key details, (especially the final line), and do the book injustice?
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