So I just got home from seeing Glass, and it left me feeling… split. Yeah, I did that. The movie brings us an end for the franchise, that until 2016s Split wasn’t a franchise, started by 2000s Unbreakable. It isn’t without controversy though, with a rotten score from Rotten Tomatoes and a B from CinemaScore, which happens to be how I would grade the movie myself. While the movie may be divisive, one thing is for sure, it’s ending is… well… SPOILERS AHEAD!
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If you’re still here you either saw the movie or don’t care if you know the ending. Your choice.
After being brought together by an apparently benevolent Dr. Staple (Sarah Paulson), Elijah (Samuel L. Jackson) and The Beast (James McAvoy) join together to escape and show the world that superpowered beings do exist. David (Bruce Willis) breaks out to stop them and a big fight outside of the psychiatric hospital they were held in ensues. In the end The Beast kills Mr. Glass and a group of law enforcement agents with clover tattoos kill The Beast and David. It turns out that Dr. Staple is part of a group that knows super powers exist and have been working for 10,000 years to keep it hidden. Yeah, I find that to be a huge amount of time for a secret organization too. In the end though, the brilliant Mr. Glass (Elijah) had the entire fight recorded and sent to certain people, including his mother, to have the footage released. Thus his plan to show the world the truth would happen no matter what happened to him and the other two characters. The question is, was this planned all along? Director M. Night Shyamalan spoke with EW and had this to say:
“I did, I always thought it was a little bit of like an opera, even when I was starting on Unbreakable. I thought this was a very operatic end to it all [with] people screaming and all of these kinds of implications. It was about implications more than anything. I’m a big fan of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as you can probably tell. The format of that movie just blew me away when I saw it. The idea that the journey of the main character gets fulfilled by another character is a very powerful idea.”
So there you have it folks, it was always meant to end this way. Speaking of the end, Shyamalan wants us to believe that despite leaving the door open for other heroes and villains to come forward this is indeed the end of this story:
“I have a lot of original stories I want to tell, I’m an original filmmaker and I want to keep on telling new stories and new characters. It’s fun for me to figure out a new language, and then learn it, and try to get an audience in two hours to learn, and accept it, and really find their way.”
I am okay with this being the end. Without the three main characters, I do not know if I would care enough to see another sequel.
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SOURCE: EW
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