
Plot
Elliot Moore is a high school science teacher who quizzes his class one day about an article in the New York Times. It's about the sudden, mysterious disappearance of bees. Yet again Nature is doing something inexplicable, and whatever science has to say about it will be, in the end, only a theory. Scientists will bring out more theories, but no explanations, when a more urgent dilemma hits the planet. It begins in Central Park. Suddenly and inexplicably, the behavior of everyone in the park changes in a most bizarre and horrible way. Soon, the strange behavior spreads throughout the city and beyond. Elliot, his wife, Alma, and Jess, the young daughter of a friend, will only have theories to guide them where to run and where to hide. But theories may not be enough.
Analysis
The Happening is a postmodernism film as it is mixing fewer of genre in one, such as thriller, science fiction, road-trail journey and drama. A high school science teacher and his wife along with his friend and his friend's daughter. They get out of the city, inevitably get stuck in the middle of nowhere, the characters begin to do and say things which make no sense whatsoever and the whole movie falls apart as we watch people try to run away from the wind.
Theme
Every M. Night Shyamalan movie also have presented a similar theme which are death and family. These not only presented in The Happening, it were also presented in others Shyamalan's film, such as Signs (2002), and The Village (2004). In Signs, the story is begin from a farmer family. One day, they found that fewer mysterious crop circle appear in their farm. While, they also notice that those mysterious crop circle are a signs of alien invasions. In the film, the death theme appear when the pets dog is trying to attack Bo and her brother Morgan forced to kill it. It is also appear when the beginning of film which a woman scream. In The Village, the story start from a family as well. The story is about a villages family and the creature live in the woods. The death theme was also appear in this film, such as a boy funeral, and murder cases happened in the village.
Authorship
Authorship knows as the creativity and idea original from a personal. Authorship is important not only it is an intellectual property, it is also represent the original idea and thinking of the author as well. M. Night Shyamalan authorship was clearly presented on his film. He not only work as a director on the film, he also take the role of scriptwriter. Base on the story, idea, theme and directing style, those 3 films (Signs, The Village, The Happening) reflected the authorship of him clearly.
References
IMDb. (n.d.). The Happening (2008). Retrieved June 24, 2016, from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949731/