With the comic adaptation Tempo, M. Night Shyamalan offers his fans exactly what the director represented from The Sixth Sense. And there are also two moments that will really catch you off guard. The film is available on Telecine.
M. Night Shyamalan is primarily associated with one thing – comebacks. From The Sixth Sense, probably the most ruined film of spoilers of all times, the Indian filmmaker has tried in each of his works to wow his audience with a big cinematic surprise. Sometimes it works, but occasionally the project can go unnoticed or ignored.
This is also the case with Tempo, which debuted in theaters in 2021 and can be watched on Telecine. Even though the adaptation failed to make a great movie and the twist at the end in particular stands out as a negative factor, there are always moments where M. Night Shyamalan proves his talent as a director. Two sequences in particular will remain etched in your memory for a long time.
What is Time about?
old features Guy (Gael García Bernal) and Prisca (Vicky Krieps) on vacation with their children Trent (Nolan River) and Maddox (Alexa Swinton) and spend a day on a secluded and hidden beach. However, they don’t have the sea to themselves, as soon more people appear on the beach. But that’s not the biggest problem…
While swimming, the young Trent finds the body of a woman, which moments later is completely skeletonized. And the kids are suddenly getting old really fast, which doesn’t just make Trent (now: Alex Wolff) totally flustered. It seems that everyone who spends time on the beach ages quickly. It is to be feared that most of the holidaymakers died the next morning at the latest. And worst of all: there seems to be no escape.
A strange horror story
The official review of I love cinema he concludes: “In trying to deliver a memorable twist, the director ends up leaving aside provocative reflections to offer the audience a conventional result. Perhaps the play’s greatest victory is its mystery. The range of thoughts aroused by the unknown is fascinating And when the answers are given in an ordinary way, the sensitive and emotional side of the film is set aside. Even so, the overwhelming themes of Old will remain in your thoughts for days, and for this alone, the title becomes a stop forced. in M. Night Shyamalan’s controversial filmography.”
The fact that Time ultimately doesn’t do well isn’t just because Shyamalan can’t decide between a bad bedtime story, laconic humor, or stale morality, but also because he doesn’t build his characters well. Away from the nuclear family, characters like rapper Mid-Sized Sedan (Aaron Pierre) or Dr. Jarin (Ken Leung) seem strange and out of place.
But what M. Night Shymalan once again masters beautifully are the quiet, interpersonal moments where the gentle dramatic wit of the original is also expressed in the film. Also, there are two moments that stick in your memory (spoilers!): The truly diabolical sequence of horrific bone fractures that only heal deformed, and the extremely disturbing vision of a rapidly progressing pregnancy with a tragic outcome. Here Shyamalan is inspired by the area of body horror.
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