The Watchers: Did you get the message of the movie? The director explains!

In The Watchers, Mina, played by Dakota Fanning, finds refuge in a house occupied by three people after getting lost in the woods. Then he discovers the rules of this very secret place: every night, the residents must allow themselves to be watched by the mysterious inhabitants of this forest. They cannot see them, but they watch everything.

For her first film as a director, Ishana Shyamalan, daughter of M. Night Shyamalan, adapts AM Shine’s suspense novel. A book that fascinated him when he discovered it and which he quickly decided to adapt for film.

Without seeing who’s watching us… that’s the theme of this modern thriller, which from the start draws parallels with reality TV shows, especially those set in the bunker. During our meeting with the film crew, actress Dakota Fanning makes the connection between the film’s theme and social media. “I really liked this parallel and this metaphor in the film, not only as a star, but in general, I think we all face this. People put their lives online on social media.

I myself look at the morning routines of people I don’t even know on Instagram. So I think we’re all wondering what privacy is and whether what we’re looking at and what it’s showing… so I felt concerned about that idea. Of course, I’ve had a particular version of this throughout my life. But I think everyone has a version of it in the times we live in. “

A decision at the heart of the film

for that Ishana Shyamalan, the main theme of the film is the fear of judgment. The latter explains:The theme of the film for me, and the fear I was exploring, was judgment. It’s kind of an allegory of how I think judgment is in our modern society. It’s about this character’s journey as he confronts the darkest parts of his personality, literally and figuratively, and is forced to look at himself through the lens of judgment. So that’s the story for me. I think it contains elements that can affect everyone. But it means something to me. For the audience, it will probably be something else.

You see, the real theme of Les Guetteurs is the judgments others pass on us, but also and above all the judgments we pass on ourselves, which sometimes prevent us from moving forward.

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