More on M.Night Shyamalan ...

This is in belated response to Ilapirata's comment on my post on M.Night Shyamalan on the 4th of February, in which I said:

"Nuances, subtleties, strange, almost obscured details, whose amorphous revellations are far more shocking than billion-dollar 3-D perfectly rendered monsters can be.

Life is stranger than fiction and a true artist will know how to collate subtle details, rather than punchy, dynamic shock tactics. A poor man's example of using randomly prosaic, seemingly candid details to hit you where you live, is in the works of Stephen King. MNS is so much more profound, despite the generally commercial format of his works..."

and he said:

"Pretty nifty work in that movie..tho think its the creepy silence that works for his movies.. Example see the "unbreakable" and the comic book comparisions..."

...not quite a direct response to Ilapirata' comment, but I have found a Freudian(!) quote which, I think, helps illustrate the personally-effective, yet non-solipsistic nature of Shyamalan's work. As a Jungian student, I cringe at using the thoughts of Freud, but you can't always throw out the proverbial baby with the bathwater...

"The twilight-realm of phantasy is upheld by the sanction of humanity and every hungry soul looks here for help and sympathy. But for those who are not artists, the ability to obtain satisfaction from imaginitive sources is very restricted.

If one is a real artist he has more at his disposal. In the first place, he understands how to elaborate his day-dreams so that they lose their essentially personal element, which would repel strangers, and yeild satisfaction to others as well. He also knows how to disguise them so that they do not easily disclose their origin in their disclosed sources.

He further possesses the puzzling ability of molding a specific material into a faithful image of the creatures of his imagination, and then he is able to accomplish all this, he makes possible for others, in their return, to obtain solace and consolation from their own unconscious sources of gratification which had become inaccessible."

-Sigmund Freud (whose name lies somewhere between Fraud and Feud)-please forgive my choice of source!