[jlogajan]

Ping to the Brit. :-) Yeah, I know this film won't be released in the UK until Sept 13. But you might enjoy the advance (not advanced, ha ha) discussion. It was an enjoyable film, despite some weaknesses which I can't detail without a spoiler alert.

It did fall down in the same way all religious themed films always fall down -- the contradiction of God as protector, while ignoring the fact that God is "protecting" us from his alter-ego.

[CyberAnt]

Since you're an athiest, I will disregard your idiotic remarks about God. How can you have any opinion about HIM, when you don't know HIM?? That's like trying to describe the personality of a person you've never met!! How stupid is that??

[TomSmedley]

-- the contradiction of God as protector, while ignoring the fact that God is "protecting" us from his alter-ego.

Shyamalan is an American man from a Hindu family, who seems to keep returning to that paradigm. The hindu godhead needs Shiva, destroyer of worlds, to "give balance to The Force." See also his movie Unbreakable, where the protagonist deals with an antagonist, who deviates as far from the norm as he does, but in the opposite direction.