And the critics have again missed the point…. Lady in the Water is M. Night’s most original piece to date. Completely different and off in it’s own world, it captures your imagination. Spiritually grounded in themes such as desire, community and belief, it touches your heart. Paul Giamatti is an actor among actors, displaying Cleveland Heep as the broken man that he is, without ever losing sight of the man he wishes he could be. Simply wow. Anybody who doesn’t like it didn’t pay attention to the tagline - it is a “bedtime story,” a fairy tale, a feast of story, not horror, that doesn’t have to be a possibility or have anything in common with this world. In fact, “other-worldly” would be a good way to describe this particular movie.
It is complex enough that I’m afraid I’m going to miss church tomorrow, because I can’t sleep, can’t stop thinking about everything that happened. Shyamalan has crafted another great one.