This movie is about Kevin who has dissociative identity disorder and has 23 identities. Throughout the film, Kevin’s dominate personalities combine and fight each other for the light. His personalities have gotten so extreme that they have kidnapped three teenage girls and have kept them hostage as food for the coming of the beast. The girls try to escape as it gets closer and closer to the beast’s arrival.
This film used hard lighting throughout the entire movie with some occasional natural light as well. The hard lighting really captures the essence of the film which was dark and mysterious as to the kind of genre this film falls under, which is horror/thriller. It made sense as to where the majority of the film took place, which was in Kevin’s sketchy house. Majority of the film was shot subjectively to have a real-life effect to it. There were no scenes that were truly memorable when it comes to technicality, but I can name two. One was the close-up shot when Kevin is turning into the beast in the train with just enough lighting to where the audience can see the the muscular transformation in his back as he is turning into the beast, I thought that was very impressively done, as an illusion to the audience that Kevin is able to change his body extremely through another identity. Another scene that stood out was when the beast is running with the animal-like abilities he has, back to his home, and there is a shot that is taken from above a street light and you can see him running underneath the light. It was a very odd choice to make and pretty random because the beast had no qualities that made him vulnerable at all. This film was fantastic and James Mcavoy’s acting was incredible, aside from him being a babe (I fell in love with him in Atonement) like always. There is a scene where 9 of his personalities come out within 4 minutes and I cannot imagine how difficult that must have been for Mcavoy. I thought M. Night Shyamalan did an excellent job at executing this film. The ending sparked some twists and confusion though. At the very end, there is a scene with Bruce Willis in a diner watching the news about Kevin and his DID and he makes a statement about Mr. Glass and the wheelchair. I was so thrown off by that but then I looked into it and found my answers in the attached links below. Apparently if you have seen Unbreakable, you won’t be confused, and it might hint to a sequel or the beast’s appearance in a possible Unbreakable 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2TngNFI4Sk http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/split-movie-ending-explained-unbreakable-2-bruce-willis-planned-966669
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