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Kara somehow getting pregnant yet somehow not getting her period is my villain origin story.

the worst part imo is that the schizophrenic character was changed from the orignal story. in the comic, he had alzhiemers so shamylan made a deliberate choice to insert this harmful stereotype of an already vilified mental illness into his story.. one would think he had learned something from split and at least done a little homework on this sort of representation.

I think the switch from Dementia to Schizophrenia makes the ableism worse because it's clearly /dementia/ rather than schizophrenia, dementia makes more sense. It matches the symptoms, the "worsening" with time, the deeply suspicious rages etc. either way sits badly on the tongue.

Out of pure curiosity, I read the graphic novel which inspired this movie, and I found it weirdly touching. There was no evil corporation that wanted to test drugs on them or anything, so I assume that was added in the movie only. The particular story of the graphic novel Sandcastle obviously has the same plot - a ''magic'' place that makes everyone fast forward - and the characters were also just briefly introduced. One part specifically made me really sad - in the evening, the aged up girl and the aged up boy talk, and he says ''Can we stay up all night? I've never done that! It must be really fun!'', knowing well they wouldn't survive the night. There's the same symbolism, but the Sandcastle just delivered it better, in my opinion.

shyamalan actually does this "x mental illness is violent and scary" thing in basically ALL of his movies... the most obvious one that comes to mind is how he depicted DID in split...it's just. pure ableism lol

Counselor in training here: people with schizophrenia are FAR more likely to hurt themselves and this stigma associating schizophrenia with violent outbursts makes it that much harder for people with schizophrenia to deal with the disease which is already so hard to deal with since it is a disease that heavily impacts a person's "functionality" in society.

My brother in law has schizophrenia and it always annoys me when people ask, "do you feel safe around him?" Like 🥴 I don't know why people still have that assumption and movies like this DON'T 👏🏾 HELP 👏🏾...he'll be more upset with himself before anybody else!!

M. Night's track record for portraying mental illness is just... so bad, and every time the issue comes up I'm just reminded of an assignment my psychology course had where we had to do an analysis of how a film of our choice portrayed a mental illness. It was up to us which film we chose, but the ONE recommendation that the professors had was: "please, for the sake of your grade, don't do Split"

I was high and slightly inebriated when I saw this movie. I literally screamed in the theater when I heard the name “midsize sedan” LIKE HUH?! 😭😂

*”He can park that Midsized Sedan…right in this little garage. 🚗 💨”* Oh, Kennie😂😂

I knew I wouldn’t be taking the movie seriously when the dad said; “HE HAS A KNIFE!” Very stupidly after everyone had already seen it. I completely lost it in the theatre when the blonde lady started transforming into a spider looking thing inside the cave. Shit was too funny to me.

"Write that screenplay! The world is your oyster! You think I'm gonna let people try and stop me? And M Night Shyamalan hasn't made a good movie since 1999 and is still getting the bag?" Well damn that gave me some confidence lol

I don't believe Shamylan has ever even TALKED to another human being

The trailer for this movie was everywhere and I knew I didn’t want to watch it so I’m glad you’re talking about it 🤣

i love how shymalan keeps putting himself in his films for little cameos like he's Hitchcock or something. the delusion of it all!!

Why couldn’t they give mid sized sedan an actual name? And why justify racism by hiding it behind mental illness. Hated it.

The life lesson for this video is to stop giving M. Night a budget. Give him a tyler perry budget and let’s watch him struggle

Kennie: “that was such a funny comedy!” Shyamalan: “It wasn’t a comedy.” Kennie: “oh um >_>”

People with mental illness are actually way more likely to be the VICTIM of crimes, especially when their symptoms are more severe. It’s how people tend to think victims of sexual assault are the problem if it happens multiple times; victims have a much higher chance of being assaulted again.

M.Night has a very 'tell don't show' writing/directing style and it drives me insane - and he has a habit of wanting to be inclusive/representative, while simultaneously doing it SO FUCKING BADLY that people end up not wanting to be represented in his movies.

The worst the movie the more snatched your makeup is and that’s art.

THIS FILM MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD THERE WAS NO STORYLINE AT ALL-

At this point he should just get a writer. It’s okay to admit that it’s not your strength. Find someone who can and just direct but his ego will never let him do it

As someone with DID ever since I saw the film spilt I felt sick bc it was just was so not true, my life as a child was a nightmare. I never was in control. This made me think these movies could be fun and laughted at. Im glad you don't take his movies seriously and make us laugh

Apparently the French comic is so deep and intense but he added the twist because that's his thing and it took a lot away from the story. Amanda The Jedi talks a bit about it

as a mentally ill/disabled person it is way more likely for someone with a disorder to be the victim of mistreatment and not the other way around like a lot of media suggests. i hate the “crazy mentally ill person” stereotype so much because it perpetuates untrue narratives and harms the vulnerable of us even more.thank you for standing up for us kennie

So you’re saying my book idea about aliens turning people into serial killers is not a bad idea and I should go for it.

Lol loving the fact that you have “Shyamalan” himself as a trigger warning.

Kennie's laugh is so fucking cute i cant handle it, i love seeing her have fun and enjoy herself

The end of Sandcastle really fucked me up (though let be real the whole book is a trip), like the baby lived in the comic and was the last one alive at the end. you realize that she's gonna experience what the others experienced but by herself.

I saw this in theaters and the collective gasp of horror that came from watching the reveal of the girl being pregnant is something that will never leave my mind

Thank you for being so upfront about the representation of mental illness in this film. I'm a trauma survivor, with DID, C-PTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder, ADHD, and Autism. Despite all of that, I've got a happy marriage, a family, a career, and am thriving and successful. People are frequently surprised when I reveal my complex diagnosis to them, as well as my struggles with the debilitating genetic disorder Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and my reply to them always is, "there's a lot more of us out here than you realize."

“park that midsized sedan right in this lil garage” WHEN I TELL YOU I CHOKED ON MY BURRITO-

I believe the thing with Shyamalan is the fact that his movies are usually a great concept but are poorly executed. They are bad enough that a lot of people make fun of, but not enough for people to hate them they are just lacking, like "meh this could have been way better" more like wasted potential.

Kennie bringing up “Rush Hour” confirms to me that that movie wasn’t just an insane fever dream I had in childhood.

I feel like the only thing keeping this movie from being a pretty decent thriller really is the "Twist." Like, the concept of a movie where this strange phenomenon happens where everyone suddenly starts aging at a rapid pace and their underlying health conditions all start to get worse is a fantastic premise, especially when you consider the movie to be a supernatural thriller or hell even a better sci-fi thriller where you don't know if its magic or nature-based or some kind of chemical-hormone thing has leaked into the water. But it's really the ending that really kills it for everyone, because who the fuck thinks that people rapidly aging + Labyrinth-like remote beach that prevents anyone from escaping = hidden laboratory where people test miracle cures on people with underlying heath conditions and/or mental health conditions???????

The fact that the guy in the original graphic novel had dementia and Shyamalan changed it to schizophrenia says a Lot. Especially when added to Split and other characters like the "mentally ill/psychic" drug user that killed Bruce Willis in the 6th sense.

Kennie very slowly but surely becoming a pretentious art person after shaming every single art person on this planet in previous videos is what I live for 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

i was laughing so hard omg. The theater... was not empty. I'm still laughing at Giuseppe like 2 weeks later. Something that bothered me maybe too much is how in the first half of the film they have the kids continue to act like their kid selves, just in older bodies and then halfway through they just... drop that. And they talk like adults. Why?

Shamylan uses mental illness like a frigging set dressing without understanding the actual illness and it always makes me so mad. I refuse to watch Split, I know people who have DID and it's just offensive

I didn’t realize this was from M Knight Shymalan… everything makes so much sense now

I took the whole family out, my mum, my aunt, my younger sister. I had to remind my mum that her hysterical laughing was probably disturbing other people who were actually finding the film tense and scary. I saw it at the cinema I work at so we got free tickets, and I still wanted a refund. At least we had a good time laughing at it.

How could Shymalan take such a good, depressing, heartfelt story and turn it into such a mess? It baffles me that he was given all the tools to make something amazing and he completely ruined it ( he did the same thing with avatar too lol)

To this day I will never understand how Sixth Sense is so good and pretty much every other M Knight film is SO bad.

My girls eye makeup is POPPING, i can't even concentrate on what she's saying *-*

Lol this was the pettiest thing, but I didn't wanna second date because the dude not only picked this movie but didn't see nothing wrong or have anything to say about the film 🤣🤣🤣 sir that's all the red flags to me.

My theory about Shyamalan is that he’s trolling us because everyone calls him out for making shitty movies.

Aaron Pierre aka Mid sized Sudan is also in the Underground Railroad! He was amazing in the series, just dropping this in case y’all wanna be blessed by his presence (TW. It’s a very graphic series and delves into A LOT black Trauma so be careful)

It’s mesmerizing to watch Kennie’s lips get progressively filled in

Shyamalan is the definition of "don't just let your dreams be dreams" Granted some of his should remain dreams, but here we are

I thought the whole bit of “do you know what book I’m reading” was playing to the whole relationship struggles between the mom and dad. Like it was a passive aggressive way to call him out never paying attention to her.

I saw in an interview where M. Night actually could t get funding for this movie & had to pay for it himself 😂 he was saying it like it's a good thing, cause this way he could "take risks" Oh child.

you HAVE to do netflix's remake-ish of she's all that called he's all that. it's so bad i was nearly in tears its a must watch. i need !!!! your reaction to this movie

I wish horror movies would shift away from the narrative of "people being victims of the mentally ill"

Now I won't issue a copyright takedown for that half second of my intro but just know you're on thin ice

saw the trailer on youtube and dragged my parents with me to watch it the first time, then i dragged my bestie with me to watch it the second time. i almost PEED myself from laughing throughout the whole movie and i lost my shit when he made his cameo. and i left the theatre thinking of u and HOPING you’d be just as obsessed with it as i was and still am. what gets me is he’s so proud of the movie like he thinks he ATE.. this movie was my joker idc

One thing I noticed with how mental illness is portrayed in film, is that the focus is always on the reaction and feelings of other character's who are not mentally ill or disabled. It's essentially used as a plot device to further increase the stakes of the safety of the main character. And it's so frustrating knowing that people who are mentally ill or have a disability are way more likely to be the ones abused than to be the ones hurting others. While I absolutely loved this movie, that part really didn't sit well with me.

This movie is giving me "your day can only go up from here after you watch it" vibes

I started writing a story based on a soap carving that I’m doing in my art class. It’s called Fredrick the roach and his revenge it’s about a roach named Fredrick who wants to get revenge on every single cave man because one killed his little brother named Jimmy jr.

kennie: “i’m not making as much money as shamalan” vid: *ad plays* me: okay i’ll won’t skip, giving u that coin you deserve

i cant believe shyamalan is still being trusted with movies

Apparently in the comic the surgeon just had dementia. Shamyalan decided to make him have schizophrenia purely because of the stigmatization (which he is adding to)

I took a horror film course in college and we dedicated a bit of time to discussing the use of mental illness in horror and how tricky it is to navigate that. Personally, I'm someone who has dealt with mental illness for the bulk of my life, and am far too familiar with the stigma that comes from that (especially when you are unwell to an extent that it cannot be hidden). However, I also can't deny that some of my favorite horrors and psychological thrillers revolve around mentally ill characters. I feel that naming the illness is one thing that we should maybe push to avoid when it comes to portraying mentally ill characters in film. Directly tying behavior to a specific diagnosis is often unnecessary and is almost always used as a device to play off of the audiences own preconceived notions about certain "scary" mental illnesses. Doing so is exploitative and harmful. I also feel that, perhaps more than anything, we need to focus more on putting more information out there about mental illness. Too many people go through life with their only experiences with certain conditions being through film, leaving them with completely false and extreme ideas about mental illness. There needs to be more good representation of mental illness out there so that when mental illness appears in horror, a person can already have the knowledge that this is not meant to be an accurate representation of mental illness.

Just wanted to put it out there that M. Night has been funding his own films for a while (Visit, Split, Glass and Old). Which is something that I respect since even though the movies haven't been good he is personally paying to create something he wants to create rather than just flushing investors' money down the toilet.

It’s a bit of a shame. The Sixth Sense was one of the best movies of the 90s. And I think Split, Unbreakable, Signs and even The Village are all passable. But M Night’s movies frequently lack finesse, lack vision, are very tone-deaf, and try too hard to be “intellectual” and “surprising” while at the same time being basic and safe. And that’s not even including the travesty of The Last Airbender.

Literally… all you have to say nowadays is “Shyamalan”… That’s it.

"Damn" -Midsize Sedan

The only thing that really scared me was the bone snapping scene where her bones would keep healing too fast and she became a mangled mess ugh 🤢🤮

The first ad I saw for Old was on Snapchat and I thought it was a sunscreen advert...

Thank you so much for speaking up on the representation of mental illness and chronic illness in media. Overwhelmingly, people who are mentally ill are the victims of violence and abuse, rather then perpetrator! Haven't really heard the abelism issues mentioned in talks about this movie before, it's appreciated. SO tired of seeing dehumanizing depictions of people with chronic illness!!

I'm convinced this man keeps misrepresenting everything (ethnicities, mental illnesses, trauma, basic human interactions) because none of y'all will spell his name right! The comments below are SENDING ME.

I feel like shamylan has portrayed mental illness in a very problematic manner in a many of his movies. It’s very sus.

I was gonna leave my dorm to find my motivation to study but staying in bed to watch Kennie is more appealing than facing the realities of college.

Not Sh*malyn being a trigger warning taking me out 😭

i appreciated the commentary on mental illness, i remember being greatly saddened and angry about the representation of mental illness in SPLIT, shayamalans last big movie i remember. he has a history of treating people with mental illness as violent stereotypes.

As an epileptic, I am offended by the idea that there could be a cure-all, one medication for "epilepsy" at large. That's so so so downplaying it. Like everything else, sounds grossly misrepresented in this movie.

It doesn't matter if you're a great actress/actor. If the director is bad, the movie is going to crash and burn. Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern is an example of that

The graphic novel is deeply melancholic and kinda depressing especially the way it ends. Kinda glad Shami mad it campy 😂😂😂 didn't know I needed it

Shyamalan has a habit of portraying illnesses, especially psychological illnesses, wrong and very stereotypical. If you have ever seen Split, you get what I mean. To this day, I still don't get why people call it a good movie.

Fun fact: Lovesick was called Scrotal Recall. Then Netflix changed the name to Lovesick. I guess to be more family friendly

You Kat Blaque and Amanda the Jedi are the three people I know who talked about this movie

The surgeon apparently had dementia in the graphic novel I think I heard so I guess the misrepresentation of mental illnesses is just a Shyamalan thing.

Okay but I took the whole “do you even know what book I’m reading” scene as the wife’s way of making the point that the husband doesn’t pay any attention to her or what she’s doing in her life and show their fragmented relationship 😩. Not to be a part of some future plot

I think mid-size sedan was a placeholder name, but they couldn't find a car company that wanted to be associated with this movie.

Honestly, Kennie, you're one of the few delights I have atm. I recently quit my job (2 years of narcissism, low pay/them lying about the pay at all, and racism from managers) and now I'm just trying to work on my manuscript lmfao

We sat here and waited until this was posted. You officially own our Saturdays.

"So they were just trying to like have a good time before they basically, you know, drop a bomb on the kids" I don't know why I found this line histerical 😂😂😂 Like that clip of Kennie laughing at Dakota Fanning throwing a kid into the fire in Twilight flashed through my mind

9:39. M Knight actually funds his own films. So power to him. At least no one is funding this garbage 🗑

Kennie: *mentions a black women playing a therapist* Me: I swear if they do a "Deadly Illusions" mess 😫

My boyfriend wanted to surprise me and take me out on a date to the movie theater (we had never been on a date there before due to covid) and the film we picked was this, because there were mostly things we'd already seen, and we had a wonderful time making fun of this...thing

I'm legitimately wondering if M. Night is an alien using movies to try to understand humanity or a failed form of mass mind control on a path of world domination. He makes me lean sideways in an attempt to see the cut off parts of a scene. He makes me lean back to avoid the zoom in faces being so huge. He did the same inconsistent framing he user in avatar when two characters share dialog. I actually began wondering if he's using it to hide continuity errors because it would be a reason better than the most likely "he thought it looked cool". Who would let him touch adaptations after Avatar? When will they learn! But I do like the random thoughts I get trying to figure out why he shot that like this, or why did I understand but not understand the human speech I just heard. The man is something. If he had less of an ego he would've been great…good-ish.

Thank you for bringing up the overrepresentation of mental health in horror/thrillers. It's used as the "why" for monstrous actions way too often! Dammit Old why'd you ruin the camp with that.

I scream laughed in the theater when I heard the skeleton baby bones rattle

Can we talk about how he has a directing school that people can go learn to be directors

I’ve lost track of how many movies I’ve been prepared to see only to find out that they exploit mental illness as a plot point. I was willing to see Old (if for no other reason, for a good laugh) and I’m grateful that I saw this video first.

I tried watching this film a couple of days ago. I got through the first 5 minutes then I had to stop. You didn't tell us it literally starts with 'witty' chitchat about being young, being old, appreciating the present, mostly delivered by the mom who has cancer, while on a vacation with her family while doing work-stuff on her phone(!!!). I couldn't even laugh, I was just stuck in a loop of what is going on?! 🤤

I’m just constantly questioning m knights goal in his life cause I don’t think he’s that serious about movies.

21:06 As a film makeup artist my girl, probably a big part of the people that worked in this film or in any bad movie are just there to work 😂😂 we people in the industry love filming that’s why we are there (? but we understand that not every project that we work in is going to be A masterpiece ✌🏽😂😂

I really related to what you said at the end of the video about portraying mental illness. Obviously when people do horrific things in movies one assumes that there is something is not mentally functional with the individual. I think what makes the topic so uncomfortable is that writers put specific labels on their killers and 'crazed' antagonists, we as the audience can infer that someone is mentally ill without there being a specific label attached to them. Furthermore, the way those mental illnesses are then portrayed as being the ONLY reason someone goes out to commit horrible crimes contributes to the issue. It removes personal accountability and dehumanises the mentally ill, many of whom are well within their right minds enough to understand the ramifications of their actions. I don't think we need mental illnesses tacked onto violent characters to explain their behaviours, it kind of taps into telling rather than showing us why the character is the way they are. In my opinion, I find the issue most prevalent in poorly written films whose writers simply wanted a lazy or convenient way to explain the antagonist, or in the case of thrillers, used as a plot twist. The movie that comes to mind immediately is Split. It was particularly egregious in a way I simply cannot describe, and is also another one by Shyamalan stigmatising another mental illness. The reaction people had was really shocking, a lot of reviews praised it while also acknowledging that it was stigmatising at the same time, writing it off as entertainment (where the entertainment could be gleaned from with such an incomprehensible hot mess of a story, I don't know) when it barely comprehended what DID even is. When it comes to unnecessary 'disturbing' elements in film, I think it's something about trauma that writers and directors find so appealing because it can shock the audience and provide a 'realistic' explanation when it does nothing more than cheapen what the movie is (which is usually a pile of steaming trash, misrepresentation of mental illness and trauma aside)