Split: That’ll Do.

23rd August, 2018.

You know … 

I woke up this morning, with the intention of watching a movie.

Made point of mentioning it on today’s Teaser, even.

Thinking Fiddler on the Roof would be a good one to see: I’ve never seen it.

But, after finishing dinner, teasers and laundry?

But felt three hours of musical was maybe a bit much … 

So … ?

Money being tight, I let my finger browse through my back catalogue.

I felt there’d be something in the collection that would … you know …

Appeal … 

As it turned out, there was.

The 2016, M. Night Shyamalan film, Split.

Nice film … 

But about James McAvoy … 

~≈§≈~

Split opens, showing us the shy teenager, Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy): at a party with friends.

She, Claire and Marcia (Haley Lu Richardson and Jessica Sula) are kidnapped by a man calling himself Dennis (James McAvoy.)

A man who managed to kidnapped the girls: and keep them imprisoned.

And who, it seems, has many names … 

And distinct personalities.

Twenty-four of them, to be precise …

~≈§≈~

Now … good … ?



Hmmm … 

I really couldn’t tell you.

I’ve — beyond Sixth Sense — not seen enough of Shyamalan’s to tell you how representative of it Split
 is.



Personally?



I found it … if not good, then certainly unnerving: with a sound track that was disconcertingly creepy, a use of close-ups that will tell you how scared Taylor-Joy’s character is.

And, in James McAvoy’s performance, should me the most frightening portrayal of madness since Hopkin’s in Silence of the Lambs.



I can’t help but tell you to watch Split.



Split.
★★★★