I'm one of those people who watch movies the day it releases. And I like watching them alone (you may find it weird) but something about that experience is very soothing for me. The quiet, having the theatre to yourself especially on a weekday does it for me. So, I got the opportunity to watch Glass yesterday.
Spoilers ahead. Proceed at your own risk. Leggo!!
If you have watched Split, you would know how psychologically thrilling it is. Glass is the sequel to that and the end to the series of M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable released in 2000. The trailer to Glass indicated something of 3 powerful humans of their own kind coming together for a purpose. As the movie progresses, it had more to do with how their existence could threaten humanity.
So the plot starts of where we see David Dunn, residing in Philadelphia as the mysterious protector called the Overseer and working with his son ,who is a superhero?( I haven't watched Unbreakable yet) And we know Kevin Crumb has a personality called The Beast that can climb walls and take shotgun blasts (In Split, I was scared of that identity, but I'm starting to like him for who he is).
David is on a hunt unknowingly for Kevin (villainous man with multiple personalities) who had kidnapped four young women, holding them in an abandoned factory. The two of them fight, and one immediately gets the sense that something is not quite right. The Beast seems to be analyzing Overseer. The pair smash out a window and into the arms of Dr. Ellie Staple played by Sarah Paulson, the confident doctor who takes them off to the same hospital that’s been housing Mr. Glass for almost two decades. Glass is kept in a deeply vegetative state in a room in the same wing as David and Kevin. Dr. Staple tries to convince all three that they are not really super in any way. David’s strength isn’t that abnormal and Kevin’s powers as The Beast could be explained away.And yet Glass is devoted to trying to convince David and Kevin that they are not super in any way by none other than Dr. Ellie Staple.
The whole movie proceeds to our "ordinary" humans to come together and realize they are being played and they need to make a statement to the world about who they are and how people like them should be treated and all that. And Dr. Ellie Staple is part of some weirdo organization that wants to eliminate extraordinary humans to maintain "balance". Can't they just call themselves assassins? Moving on.
James McAvoy's acting was something of a wonder for me. The way he switched between the various identities, amazing!! All 3 leads had their support cushion, for David it was his son, for Kevin it was Casey (the girl he set free for Split and she owes him for putting her uncle away) and for Mr. Glass, his mother. The end sort of made me go why! why! but it is what it is. At the end of it all, it goes to say that comic books are a documentation of extra ordinary individuals and we should try to believe in it. I don't know about this movie but I sort of had a notion of the supernatural and the weird things around the world having a ring of truth to it even though others tend to laugh away. So yea. That's it.
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