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Ryan

That whole "I want to know more" reaction is quite understandable, because this started out as just the first act of Shyamalan's original script. But then he found he couldn't feel any emotional attachment to anything that came afterwards, so he expanded it into the full movie and just left people to imagine what might happen next.

Paul Mason

Great reaction. I remember going to see this movie at the cinema. I'd seen Sixth Sense without knowing anything about it and all I really knew about this was it was by the same director. It's maybe hard to put yourself in the mindset now but that was a time when there were not so many comic book movies. Now we've had really dark gritty ones and light-hearted ones, mystery ones, big space battle ones and on and on. But this was before a lot of that and so it was really cool to have a movie that did a sort of super-hero origin story but in a slightly off-centre way. It's like Elijah says at one point, the comic book stories are exaggeration and sort of half-remembered folk history. These days there are several examples of "what would super-heroes look like in the real world" but this was one of the first certainly I came across and in that way I feel it's really well done. And I love the fact, as you say, that it's still possible to read the whole thing as a series of coincidences.

Dean Nolan

Such a good film, and not to get too political, it would take an evil genius from a poor background with brittle bones syndrome, have 54 breaks and survive the USA healthcare system with a thriving business and spare money to build bombs. Samuel L Jackson is an absolute legend and is just brilliant in any movie!

Thomas Corp

This is still such an underrated gem of a film. It’s tied with Requiem for a Dream for being my favorite film of 2000. As you point out, it’s great how the film has the question throughout most of it of is David in fact a superhero or are all the clues merely bizarre coincidences. Of the characters that Samuel L. Jackson has played over the years, Elijah is my favorite. He’s also high on my list of all-time favorite characters. Unfortunately, not top ten, but he’s high up there. The scene where he chases the man with the gun along with the aftermath in the hospital, and especially the final scene are scenes that are guaranteed to make me cry every single time. And yes, Elijah adopts the name Mr. Glass as his supervillain alias. This was such a fantastic reaction that I very much enjoyed, and it’s made me so happy to see that you really loved it.

Dave Ford

Of course, if David is a bona-fide superhero, that would suggest that Mr Glass is a bona-fide supervillian - and we all know what happens to supervillians who get sent to asylums for the criminally insane..