Unbreakable

For the album by The Scorpions, see Unbreakable.

Unbreakable is a 2000 movie written, produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.

Details

As a film, Unbreakable explores the role that myth has in our civilization, and specifically explores the way that humans use comic books to explore mythic dimensions of the real world. The film works on a second level, for within the film itself comic books are in a real sense man's last link to an ancient way of story-telling.

Unbreakable was originally planned as part of a trilogy, with subsequent films titled Breakable and Broken. These sequels seem to have been scrapped after a poor box office performance. Other reports contend that Shyamalan was in the process of writing a single movie using a comic-book three-part structure (the superhero's birth, their struggles against general evil-doers, and their ultimate battle against the "arch enemy"). However, he found the "birth" section far more interesting than the remainder and decided to base the entire movie around the idea.

Many have compared this film with The Sixth Sense because it shares the same writer and director, and star actor, has the same type of plot structure, and reveals an unexpected surprise ending.

Plot

Elijah Price is born with Type I Osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare disease in which the bones lack collagen of sufficient quality and/or quantity, and thus break very easily. He is even born with broken bones, as shown in the first scene of the movie, and later receives the nickname "Mr Glass". He lives his life searching for a reason for his own existence. He theorises that if he is at one end of a curve then perhaps there is somebody else quite opposite to him at the other end, someone with greater than usual strengths. Unfortunately he sets about finding this person by causing large scale "accidents" and looking for a sole survivor.

David Dunn is equally searching for a meaning to his life. He gave up a promising Football career to be with the girl he loved, but even after their marriage and the birth of a son he still felt a hole – something was missing. After surviving a train wreck he is contacted by Price and slowly begins to believe in his theory, and this enables Dunn to feel whole again and he is able to renew his relationship with his wife. In the final moments of the film he discovers the evil deeds Price has performed in order to find meaning in his life.

External links

• Unbreakable at M. Night Shyamalan's website
• Unbreakable at the Internet Movie Database
• M. Night Shyamalan Fans – Unbreakable