紅顏禍水 唔湯唔水

Went and see M. Night Shyamalan's lady in the water last night, since what I consider his debut work, "The Sixth Sense", by Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment in 1999, I've seen all his movie afterwards, yes, even Stuart Little. I think his movies are getting worse and worse. Unbreakable, Signs, The Village and Lady in the Water. He is always trying to use metaphors to make a bigger picture, a greater purpose. In his arrays of movies, you can see he always try to emphasize a connection, a consequence of events, and a greater purpose/ meaning behind all those little small things in life. The child psychologist who realize his own death by helping a ghost-seeing child, the superhuman that resist harm, the alien with the technology to come through a million light years but didn't do a little research on the planet they're invading, the self incested isolated quakers village, and now in this movie... he've just got way too many strands of plot - plot of the selfmade-fable of a nymph being, saving the World with a single awakening. Apart from a few forced in commercial/ gimmick laughs, like the kid that reads higher purpose out of cereal boxes & the guy who trained only one side of his body... other than that, the whole movie is a bore. I can see what he's trying hard to get at, but the impression just didn't get through, guess he's just trying too hard to impress, but leaving more people in misery. Sitting through the two hours, I can't help to feel it's like a Mario brother's jumping Nintendo game, collecting the correct items to get through to the next stage, and in the end saving the princess.