{"id":9998,"date":"2017-01-27T18:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T23:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=9998"},"modified":"2021-03-16T14:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T18:11:30","slug":"split-no-cinematic-masterpiece-still-fun-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/split-no-cinematic-masterpiece-still-fun-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Split Is No Cinematic Masterpiece But Still A Fun Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9999\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/split_poster-2-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"Movie poster for Split.\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/split_poster-2-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/split_poster-2-768x1216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/split_poster-2-646x1024.jpg 646w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/split_poster-2.jpg 1894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES The Beast: Despite unmemorable supporting characters and subpar writing, Split is a decent, well-rounded horror movie that will surprise moviegoers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Split<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s horror lies in the familiar. It targets the dark tides that lurk behind the mundane, the mad-workings of men who walk among us, hiding demons in their psyche. Director M. Knight Shyamalan explores this part of the mind, shining a light on its existence and demonstrating what happens when ordinary people are caught in excesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film follows high school outcast Casey Cooke (Anya Taylor-Joy), who is abducted, along with two other girls, by Kevin Wendell Crumb (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0564215\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">James McAvoy<\/span><\/strong><\/a>), a man with 23 different personalities living inside him. The girls are held captive in an undisclosed location while Kevin\u2019s personalities wait for the coming of someone known only as \u201cThe Beast.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McAvoy is the highlight of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Split<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He weaves through Crumb\u2019s identities with the grace and brutality of a cutlass. Every identity is its own character. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One learns while watching the movie which personas are most dangerous and which are most helpful. McAvoy\u2019s performance inspires fear, revulsion, sympathy and laughter. However, despite his emotional manipulation, a sense of tension always lurks behind his character, threatening to break open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subtle touches by the director reinforce this tension. Bright blues and greens spill out to create a false sense of safety, the blood is pulpy and red, and each of Crumb\u2019s identities has its own wardrobe, some marked by oak burgundy and others by taxi-cab yellows. Shyamalan also controls the lighting, being comfortable evoking fear in both shadow covered subway tunnels and sun specked woodlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Split<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s writing is not up to par with its directing. At instances it stalls, often getting caught up providing redundant exposition. This is made worse by most of the supporting actors, whose performances are familiar to those used to direct-to-video slasher flicks. With the exception of Izzie Coffey and Brad William Henke, who play Cooke\u2019s five-year-old self and her uncle respectively, the supporting characters are unmemorable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taylor-Joy counters McAvoy\u2019s variation with stagnation, maintaining throughout the film the grimace of someone in the middle of swallowing a rotten oyster and the temperament of a particularly sleepy librarian. Her companions, Marcia (Jessica Sula) and Claire Benoit (Haley Lu Richardson), are duller, only serving as sources for the obligatory horror movie chase scenes. The most grating performance comes from Betty Buckley, who plays Kevin\u2019s psychologist Dr. Karen Fletcher. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While her acting is okay and her interactions with McAvoy give more insight into Crumb\u2019s personas, most of her screen time is dedicated to monotonous over-exposition of cognitive-dissonance disorder. However, while the performances are uninspiring, none of the supporting characters are enough to bring the film down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Split <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is no cinematic masterpiece. However, it is cleverly directed, thrilling and most importantly, fun. While nowhere near as iconic as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unbreakable <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sixth Sense<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Split <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a decent, well-rounded horror movie that will surprise moviegoers who only know Shyamalan due to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Earth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and reinvigorate the interest of fans of his older films. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Split\u2019s horror lies in the familiar. It targets the dark tides that lurk behind the mundane, the mad-workings of men who walk among us, hiding demons in their psyche. Director M. 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