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Kimber Torres IDS 307T: Digital Writing Matthew Beale Paper 1: GIF Essay February 09, 2020
The Movie: Glass
It’s been what seems like forever and now the trilogy will finally be complete. The movie
trailer looks unbelievable. The sequel to the Unbreakable and Split has finally happened.This psychological thriller produced by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson that can only get better with the addition of the young Mr. Charles Xavier himself, James McAvoy. The guy is a genius when it comes to his craft. His talent was shining in the first
sequel: Split. I couldn’t wait to sit down with a large bowl of popcorn with layered butter and a
box of snowcaps at my side to fully enjoy what was about to unfold. The lights fade in the movie theater and the opening credits begin. The trailers play showing the
audience some amazing movies coming out in the near future. Looks like I’ll be coming back
when some of these movies come out. The room grows pitch black and the first scene opens up with a dark scene, of course. It looks like a large dirty room, maybe a boarded-up factory. Kevin
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(McAvoy) comes out of the shadows and into the only light in the room.
Ms. Patricia, one ego that orchestrates some of his actions and controls the other personalities walked through a door was and is facing four girls tied to a pipe in what looks like a factory. No soft introduction here! Ms. Patricia speaks to the girls. The Beast wants more sacrifices of those that have never seen trials and tribulations. He’s at it again. The scene cuts and shows a group of teens doing one of those internet challenges where they punch a stranger and videotapes it. The next scene shows one of the same teens at home reviewing the film and a shadow figure breaking into the house and throwing his brother against the wall.
The scene develops unmasking the hooded figure as Bruce Willis’s character. The
audience is introduced to his now grown up son and his wife, giving the audience an update of
‘what are they doing now’. We learn more about Bruce Willis’ (David) character and his son’s
attempt to keep him out of trouble. The scenes continue to switch back and forth between one of
Kevin’s alter personalities and David. You learn more on “Kevin’s” continued plan to punish
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those that are “unworthy”. David runs into Kevin on the street, brushing up against him, and
seeing the girls being chained up to the pipe.
Kevin goes into ritual mode and turns into the Beast about to eat up the teenage girls in the factory, before David goes to save the day. The girls are saved with limited injuries, though one chick gets a desk straight to the face. Ouch! The two strong men exchange blows for blows until a group of people barge in, flashing Kevin with strobes, confusing and turning the Beast to another personality. Both are taken to a high security facility where they are locked in with a highly sophisticated lock triggered by their weaknesses (flashes for Kevin and water for David).
Each flash brings out another one of Kevin’s personalities, showing the facial transformation and
voice between each of them.
We quickly learn that Mr. Glass, old Samuel L Jackson, is in the same ward where the majority of the first half shows him sitting and staring past the camera. He seems to be so
medicated that he’s become a vegetable. I am sure the most expensive vegetable found on the big
screen today. His role is much different than we have seen him in the past.
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Not very close, but you get it. While locked up, each of our superhero’s backstory is
shared. The audience quickly learns that it was Mr. Glass that caused the train accident that
created David’s unbreakable powers and killed Kevin’s dad that led to his mother abusing him
and the development of his superpower alter personalities.
Mr. Glass starts coming alive after switching out his medication to limit his sedation.
After setting up a meeting with the Beast, he starts enacting the preliminary phase of his escape
plan that can only be done with Kevin’s alter ego’s buy in. Eli, Mr. Glass, paves the way for
Kevin and his escape, goading David to follow in their footsteps to stop them. With the Beast in
toe, Mr. Glass essentially rolls out, literally because he’s in a wheelchair, of the facility while the
beast is tearing these guards up.
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Our superheroes make it outside of the facility onto to beat the snot out of each other.
After exchanging blows, the scene cuts and shows each of our “hero’s” loved ones. Something is
about to happen. It is an M. Night Shyamalan production after all. Kevin’s closest loved one hugs onto him and breaks him away from the Beast and brings out the true Kevin into the light. A red dot lights up on his chest and the next thing you know there is blood pouring out of his chest. Kevin tells the chick that he liked being in the light and taking over and that he was going to do it until the end. The scenes account his abuse and how his other personalities were there for
his protection when he was being abused. At this point, I’m not crying... I promise.
The company that originally took them and locked them up in the facility shows up and are the ones behind the execution. David is held down and tortured/drowned in a puddle of
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water. A puddle! What a way to go. Eli’s bones are crushed from an altercation with David. He is dying in his mother’s arms calling her mother and telling her that he was not a mistake as a
son. His mother agrees and tells him that he was marvelous as a son. Mr. Glass hints to his story
being an origin story with more to come as he dies in his mother’s arm. Okay, now I am crying.
The scene cuts away and you find out that Eli sets up the facilities camera feed to be sent to each of their loved ones. The movie ends with each of the loved ones uploading the footage to the internet to bring to light everything that has happened to each of our superheroes.
