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The Village, part I: Motifs and story arc

The Village, part I: Motifs and story arc

Av Dag Sødtholt

Before The Visit came M. Night Shyamalan's early masterpiece The Village. Mismarketed and misunderstood as a horror movie, it has gained a following as a mood piece of pastoral beauty, intense emotion and stylised lyricism.

Lady in the Water, Part II: Self-reflexivity and visual stylisation
International Edition

Lady in the Water, Part II: Self-reflexivity and visual stylisation [4]

Av Dag Sødtholt

A return to this severely under-appreciated film, for its discussion of storytelling, interpretation, film criticism, artificiality, stylisation, interconnectedness – and whether stories can become real.  [4]

The Happening, Part III: Do you think it could be plants?
International Edition

The Happening, Part III: Do you think it could be plants?

Av Dag Sødtholt

A Shyamalan enthusiast is struggling mightily to come to terms with the conundrum of The Happening, a split identity film that swings wildly between excellence, rampant quirkiness and unchecked hysteria.

Unbreakable, Part II: Motifs and colour
International Edition

Unbreakable, Part II: Motifs and colour

Av Dag Sødtholt

M. Night Shyamalan's enigmatic superhero thriller is a film where everything seems to be connected to everything else. We look at various motifs and colour codings that move in intricate and sometimes very strange patterns.

Louder Than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s play on perspective

Louder Than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s play on perspective

Av Dag Sødtholt

As so often in films, Louder Than Bombs is not a dissertation, but a meditation on its themes and motifs. Seen in isolation, words and deeds may seem unexceptional – it is as a whole that Joachim Trier film takes flight.

The Village, part II: A tapestry of characters

The Village, part II: A tapestry of characters

Av Dag Sødtholt

After a general evaluation of this M. Night Shyamalan tour de force, the large cast of characters and their relationships are examined, with a special emphasis on subtext and how that is expressed through mise-en-scène.

Unbreakable, Part I: Characters and relationships
International Edition

Unbreakable, Part I: Characters and relationships

Av Dag Sødtholt

Our in-depth look at M. Night Shyamalan's early films continues with Unbreakable: perhaps the only mainstream Hollywood formalist film, a mass-market movie approached with an unrelenting European art film sensibility.

Desperate connections: An analysis of Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick (2015)

Desperate connections: An analysis of Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick (2015)

Av Dag Sødtholt

"Homesick primarily plays on the unspoken. Dialogues are marked by pauses and silent tensions between characters. Most films increase their pace towards a climax, but in Sewitsky the pauses just grow longer and more pregnant."

Signs, Part III: Dreams, demons and birds

Signs, Part III: Dreams, demons and birds

Av Dag Sødtholt

Signs offers rich allegorical subtexts of dreams, magic and the aliens as metaphors for the characters' inner demons. We also chart references to The Birds, and analyse the masterful cellar sequence and the film's ending.

The Sixth Sense, Part I: Stature and Style
International Edition

The Sixth Sense, Part I: Stature and Style [1]

Av Dag Sødtholt

A stunning piece of high-precision filmmaking, formally inventive, thematically intelligent, emotionally gripping, a momentous commercial success, an almost perfect film. [1]

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan B: A modern myth

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan B: A modern myth

Av Dag Sødtholt

This second of three analytical articles on Interstellar explores themes: identity, religion, lies and truth, inflexible worldviews, and the difference between the imagined and the experienced.

The Sixth Sense, Part III: Motifs and a Funeral
International Edition

The Sixth Sense, Part III: Motifs and a Funeral

Av Dag Sødtholt

We conclude our in-depth analysis of M. Night Shyamalan's masterpiece with a close look at motifs and structural aspects, concluding with a shot-by-shot commentary on the post-funeral sequence.

After Earth, Part I: Much better than you think

After Earth, Part I: Much better than you think

Av Dag Sødtholt

With the artistic, commercial and critical success of his two latest films, it is about time to soberly unearth the very real qualities of M. Night Shyamalan's disproportionally maligned middle period.

Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017) Part I: What does it all mean?

Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017) Part I: What does it all mean?

Av Dag Sødtholt

Zeitgeist is replaced by timelessness, chamber music by a symphony. The systematically unpredictable Thelma is Joachim Trier and his team's most sonorous, lyrical and adventurous film.

Split, Part III: Meeting of multiple minds

Split, Part III: Meeting of multiple minds

Av Dag Sødtholt

The cat-and-mouse sessions between psychiatrist and patient form a thrilling acting laboratory, where M. Night Shyamalan's fundamentally static set-ups are done with rigour and discreet invention. Bonus: film references.

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