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By: Jay Dyer
Signs is the best place to start with M. Night Shyamalan films. Upon first glance, Shyamalan films represent typical mass consumption Hitchcock-meets-Spielberg homage, but the films at times display much more at work. Signs appears to be a film about alien arrival and disclosure. Since the 1940s and 50s Hollywood and the military industrial complex have worked endlessly to prop up the notion alien invaders are inevitable – meanwhile the Christian and biblical account of creation is dead. In fact, for centuries the West has mandated dogmatically metaphysics isn’t even possible given the dominance of reductionist materialism.
Now, we are to accept a new religious mythology that blends seamlessly with scientism (and not science),...