M. Night Shyamalan’s artistic voice is defined by a mixture of eloquence and stiltedness, boldness and fragility. Love them or not, you wouldn’t mistake one of his films for anyone else’s.
.” Shyamalan’s title lacks the apocalyptic overtones but has an added hint of playful urban-legend malevolence: that “knock” is the terrible sound of letting the wrong one in.
Shyamalan recently appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to help the host “Shyamalanify” his broadcast, which meant poking fun at the tropes that have defined his public image since “The Sixth Sense”: his gift for slow-burning dread; his cultivation of a mystical offscreen persona; his penchant for twist endings. For a time, in the late two-thousands, the name M.
“Knock at the Cabin” is replete with Shyamalanian trappings: a confined location, a parable-like narrative, cosmic stakes, a surprise conclusion. From a certain angle, the movie almost looks like self-parody, which is why it’s interesting to note that it’s one of his rare features developed from someone else’s material. Shyamalan was originally attached only as a producer, but, after the initial production fell through, the rights holders returned and asked him if he wanted to make it himself.
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