Monday 6 March 2017

Weekly Film Analysis: Split (2017)

This film is a 2016 psychological horror-thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The theme of this film was family, love, identity crisis and misunderstanding.  The cinematography was by Mike Gioulakis and his skills created the illusion of making the audience feel involved and gave an insight of all of the protagonist’s split personalities. The production company of this film was Blinding Edge Pictures and distributed by Universal Pictures. The location of the film was based in the United States and was in English. The budget of the film was $9 million but had an outstanding box office of $248.8 million. Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 76%, based on 215 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Split serves as a dramatic tour de force for James McAvoy in multiple roles – and finds writer-director M. Night Shyamalan returning resoundingly to thrilling form.



The protagonist of this film was Dennis who we discover that he has a dissociative identity disorder and realise that this was caused by his childhood upbringing. This creates sympathy from the audience and an insight of this disorder not being his fault. 

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