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- The Happening is a 2008 science fiction thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, and Betty Buckley and revolves around an inexplicable natural disaster causing mass suicides.
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Apr 22, 2022 · Happening often has the air of a war movie, but if that makes the universe Diwan has created sound morally black and white, it isn’t.
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The Happening: Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez. A science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide.
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The Happening is a 2008 science fiction thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, and Betty Buckley and revolves around an inexplicable natural disaster causing mass suicides.
An apocalyptic threat to humanity arrives out of the clear blue sky with a series of violent, inexplicable deaths spreading across the country.
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- Is The Happening A Film in Search of A Genre?
- What’s The Source of The Toxin?
- A Film About Grief
- What Happens to The Bees?
- What Does The Mood Ring Mean?
- What to Read Or Watch Next
Like sci-fi disaster movie Knowing, Shyamalan’s The Happening doesn’t always get a lot of love. Kim Newman writing in Empire in 2009 even called Knowing an M. Night Shyamalan film – as a nod to its failings. Value judgements aside, there’s some truth to the comparison as far as The Happening goes. Both movies tell a bleak story about extinction. Bo...
We never find out where the toxin comes from, or why – because it’s not important. The idea of the invisible, airborne toxin is a MacGuffin: a plot device that sets the story in motion. Hitchcock described the MacGuffin (or McGuffin) as something the characters care deeply about, but the audience doesn’t: the stolen $40,000 in Pyscho, for example. ...
The Happening’s ending relies on a kind of Deus Ex Machina(a convenient plot resolution). The toxin runs rampant for 24-hours, then … stops. Despite this, the toxin isn’t a throwaway concept. It introduces substantial themes that Shyamalan returns to repeatedly: grief and mental health. The suicides in the film are incomprehensible and upsetting. T...
Science teacher Elliot tells his class that millions of bees have vanished without trace. Moments later, we hear the first reports of a terrorist attack. We’re also shown a quote, attributed to Einstein, that states: There’s no proof Einstein ever said this, btw. The bees – and the quote – are another storytelling device. As such, it foreshadows th...
The Happening isn’t about bees or the mysterious toxin. It’s about a mood ring. OK, it’s not – but the mood ring symbolises a key theme in the movie: love, marriage and family. When they flee their home, Elliot grabs the mood ring first. Later we learn he bought it on his first date with Alma. It represents the way he feels about her, even while th...
The Village, Sixth Sense (Shyamalan)May 25, 2021 · When people across the world begin dying violently through suicide for no apparent reason, a science teacher named Elliot (Mark Wahlberg), his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel), and his colleague Julian...
Apr 21, 2022 · Happening is a gripping film about the realities of abortion in the 1960s. Audrey Diwan adapts Annie Ernaux’s deeply personal book about the experience of falling pregnant in France, 1963, before the legalisation of abortion. 21 April 2022.
