Try your best, not to scream

Warning: Spoilers ahead, if you want to see The Village and hasn't yet, you might not want to read this:

I didn't really have to try very hard not to scream when I saw M. Night Shyamalan's The Village last night.
Ok, well, i did scream, once. But it was unpredicted and it just came out.

Shyamalan does one thing really well, and it was apparent in the movie this time as well: He knows how to trick his audience. I went in thinking it would be a scary "Sixth Sense" like movie and it turned out to be the absolute opposite.
i liked the movie, maybe I felt a little let down because it was hyped up to be a scary thriller about the unknown or monsters and instead, it was about people.

It was scary on a different level, it was scary, makes you think about society and people in general, kind of crazy. But it also made me feel as though Shyamalan was too cocky this time around, like it was some sort of inside joke that he was playing on us, the audience. Maybe I'm overreading this but at the scene where his reflection was seen on the glass cabinet and Kevin, the park ranger/security guard was stealing the medicine right under Shyamalan's nose and he pretended not to notice - that part was hokey.

So, yeah, I feel all weirded by the movie and I don't know really how to criticize it but it is worth seeing. I liked the movie and it has also made me want to watch the UPN show "Amish in the City" in the Fall. lol.

I only hope Lucius Hunt does get up enough courage to want to go see "The Towns" for himself.