Tonight on TV: Bruce Willis’ final starring role also marks the end of a masterful trilogy

Tonight on TV: Bruce Willis’ final starring role also marks the end of a masterful trilogy

The third installment of the superhero trilogy that began in 2000 with Unbreakable, then continued in 2016 with Split, the feature film Glass, released in theaters in 2019, is a little gem of intelligence and staging.

The story of this latest opus, a dizzying masterpiece by M. Night Shyamalan, immerses the viewer in the events narrated in Split.

David Dunn, the unstoppable man played by Bruce Willis, continues to hunt the monster (the incredible James McAvoy), aka Kevin Crumb, because we know he can take on 23 different personalities.

Meanwhile, a mysterious man with brittle bone syndrome, Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), once again piques the interest of law enforcement by claiming to have vital information on two men…

Where Unbreakable followed a man whose humble self-esteem blinded him to his true power, where Split explored the deadly power of a monster created by a traumatized mind, Glass is interested in the essence of identity, asking whether we are objectively what we are, or rather the physical result of what we are. Does the mind shape and define?

Are you a superhero or do you believe you are, even if it’s just a fantasy?

“I have been interested in psychology and psychotherapy since high school. So it was quite natural to deal with these topics.”says M. Night Shyamalan.

“Over time, my research and the story fed into each other. For Split, I was reading Dissociative Identity Disorder and thought it would be a great topic.

Unbreakable started the same way. I had torn the anterior cruciate ligaments in both knees playing basketball and spent a lot of time in rehab and physical therapy. It was this experience that gave me the basis for the film.”

M. Night Shyamalan was able to include never-before-seen footage from Unbreakable in Glass for scenes featuring David Dunn or Joseph’s flashbacks. He says: “It was amazing because the scenes we cut in the edit of Unbreakable were always in my head. I was sure they could make it into Glass if I wrote it right.”

It is prohibited for children under 12 years old

Tonight on W9 at 9.05pm.

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Source: Allocine

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