Romantic comedy, western, science fiction or animation…
Each of the founding genres of cinema has its essential works, its essential classics, which every moviegoer should see at least once in their life. A few years ago, in the AlloCiné editorial team, we worked hard to select the 10 feature films that, for each category, were in our eyes priority film discoveries.
Much more recent than many of their big brothers, but after occupying a prominent place in the cinematic landscape for the past few decades, superhero movies have also captured our attention. Among the 10 entries we selected, between Nolan’s Marvel and Batman, was a feature film like no other: M. Night Shyamalan’s profound and powerful Unbreakable.
After the sixth sense…
Filmed in 2000 by the man who had already wowed the world with his memorable Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, this superhero movie set the alien genre on the wrong foot and offered the public as realistic a spectacle as possible.
Light years away from red capes, tight jumpsuits and pixel explosions, Unbreakable appropriated the codes of comics to tell the intersecting destinies of two people: a vigilante and his nemesis.
Bruce Willis in the movie “Unbreakable”
The most realistic film
On the one hand, David Dunn, the miraculous survivor of a horrific train disaster, wonders how he managed to escape the crash that killed all the other passengers unscathed. On the other hand, Elijah Price, who suffers from a rare disease that has left his bones as brittle as glass, has a fascinating theory about how David survived.
Slowly blending fantasy into an intimate and pragmatic world with subtlety and intelligence, Shyamalan delivers here one of his best films, but also a completely unique vision of comic book culture. Thanks to the filmmaker’s inventive narrative and the talent of his actors, everything takes on a dimension of rare power. Every blow taken is felt, every response weighed, every sequence captures more than any clash of the titans could.
(Re)discover all the hidden details of ‘Unbreakable’…
Source: Allocine

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