Mastodawn

jp Jul 16, 2025

“What if the real monster was… narrative insecurity?” My breakdown of M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water — a film that can’t decide if it’s a bedtime story or a sacred text. Lampshades, cereal boxes, and soggy metaphors included. #FilmCriticism #LadyInTheWater #MNightShyamalan #MovieAnalysis #FantasyFilms #CultCinema #FilmEssay #NarrativeFail #ScreenwritingTips
https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/cereal-boxes-and-soggy-metaphors-m-night-shyamalans-lady-in-the-water-revisited/

Cereal Boxes and Soggy Metaphors: M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water Revisited

Paul Giamatti’s character in Lady in the Water is named Cleveland Heep. Heep. Like Uriah. That’s the right last name for the wrong character. Heep is supposed to be our empathetic, broken caretaker…

90% of Everything is Crap

Aurelius_17_6_313 aka Sir 1%Mar 6, 2022

I don't know if #TheEconomist is trying to send a coded message about #Ukraine here, or if this was a massive editor's desk fuck up, but I about spit out my beer when I saw the print on that kid's cap in the photo they used for this piece meant to drum up more hatred for #Russia.

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#NarrativeFail
#GlitchInTheMatrix

https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/03/05/a-ceasefire-to-evacuate-the-city-of-mariupol-in-southern-ukraine-fails-after-minutes?utm_medium=social-media.content.np&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_content=discovery.content