Hey folks, Harry here with a look at M Night's UNBREAKABLE... basically spoiler free... There are some spoilers here.... but not the big one. What is here is basic plot structure... the basic... what is going on thing. Mr Durden seemed to really enjoy the film... Take care and god bless you... everyone...
Harry, Hows it hangin' big guy? As cold as it is now, mine's not doing so well..but I digress. Here's something you'll find more interesting: a review of the test screening for Unbreakable that some people ALMOST didn't get into. And it was all your fault too! The whole thing was quite a bit of luck, anyway. I dont actually live anywhere near Camarillo, I just happened to be visiting my father at the time, who has connections and dropped a few hints suggesting the proper time and location of such a screening. Now, this is a movie I've been looking forward to ever since I first heard about its preproduction, so I eagerly high-tailed it to the theater. That's where the trouble began...
See, this guy and his friend, a rather large, bearded redhead, though (and I mean this as a complement)nowhere near your exquisite stature. Fucking Nazi NRG's apparently thought he was you, and they got ID'd and everything. Eventually, though, they got in, and the rest, as they say, is history. I laughed my ass off at those NRG bastards, he was so not you, I think.
Before the movie began, we got the standard "this is a rough print, temp score, blah blah blah". Although nothing was said about the presence of celebrities, I did indeed hear that Mr. John McClain himself was present.
Unfortunately, I didn't see him.
In the film, Bruce plays a guy named David Dunne, who works crowd control at a football stadium in Philadelphia. He used to be a football player himself, but back in college his future wife and he were hit by a truck driver. It was a pretty severe crash, and David was injured enough not to be able to play football again. The interesting thing, though, is that he recovered VERY quickly and all these years later he doesnt even limp or anything. Now, about David... he's a very simple guy: its NOT the same character he played in 6th Sense...David is, to put it frankly, not as intelligent. He is, however, vaguely comic-bookish; quiet, strong. Anyway, David is sick of working as a security guard, so he goes to New York to do some job interviews. On the way back, however, the train he's on wrecks and something like over a hundred people are killed(everyone on the train)...David comes out basically uninjured, however, and makes the news because of it. This is how Samuel L Jackson's character, Elijah Price, hears about him. Elijah runs a comic store called Limited Edition, and he thinks that David may be a real superhero; a guy who cannont be injured by conventional means. More than that, however, he believes that he has a spiritual connection to David; see, Elijah was born with a condition that makes his bones break VERY easily, and he thinks that for him to recover, a person like David has to be injured. Elijah's condition is illustrated very graphically; in one scene, a flashback to his childhood, Elijah becomes seperated from his parents and is injured so seriously he become paralyzed. Anyway, as the story develops, Elijah both tries to convince David who he is while also learning more about him so he can figure out a way to hurt him.
As the movie drew to its conclusion, I thought I had the "surprise ending" figured out; naturally, I was wrong. While the ending is indeed a surprise, I don't really think its the shocker that some people have claimed; at least, I didnt't think it was on the level of The Sixth Sense or Usual Suspects or Jacob's ladder. It's not that sort of ending, where it changes everything we thought before, it simply involves characters doing things we don't expect them to.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the info!
- Tyler Durden
