08 April 2011

Movie Review: The Happening


 
This is one of those movies with a powerful message. You need to have a certain kind of intelligence to watch it. It doesn't shove everything to your face: you need to watch it, put two-and-two together and decipher it.


Storyline is simple: some unknown air-borne chemical radiated from plants is making people display unnatural behaviours - hanging themselves, placing themselves under bulldozers(YIKES!), driving in inhuman speed killing themselves and etc. Speculations goes how it's a sign of apocalypse, how mother nature is angry with us, how some chemical from the sea travelled to land affecting land creatures etc.


A science teacher is on the roads with his wife and friend's daughter trying to escape the calamity. They travel further and further away, witnessing many deaths and mishaps and finally close to the brink of breaking down.

They survived though. How? Watch the movie to find out. =)

Rating: 7/10
Points were deducted for awkward acting and graphic violence.=\

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