What they want with their captives is not immediately clear. Some are male, some female, at least one is a child (named Hedwig) and another (named Barry) is a gay stereotype.
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These “alters” - a word familiar to fans of the Showtime series “United States of Tara” and other pop-cultural treatments of a controversial and often poorly understood psychological disorder - are a diverse bunch. The less said about that plot, therefore, the better. Like those movies, and like his later, lesser entertainments (“The Village” “The Happening”), “Split” is all plot, an ingenious (and also ridiculous) conceit spun into an elegant ribbon of suspense. Shyamalan stands as a pioneer of spoiler-centric cinema. Thanks to “ The Sixth Sense” and “ Unbreakable” back around the turn of the century, Mr. It’s not exactly a Choose Your Own Adventure, but you can opt either for the pleasure of surprise at the end or for the satisfaction of working out the puzzle as you go along. Shyamalan’s hometown, proceeds nimbly and with suave misdirection toward a pair of rug-pulling final twists that an attentive viewer will probably be able to anticipate. The movie, shot in and around Philadelphia, Mr.
Or maybe I should say a return to formula. At once solemn and preposterous, sinister and sentimental, efficient and overwrought, “Split” represents something of a return to form for its writer and director, M.
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