Shyamalan's disinterest in conversational naturalism lest it distract from his visual storytelling is singular and wonderful as ever, and his use of zoning is even more pronounced than in Signs, with the ultra-pristine village looking like a mid century painting of 100 years ago or a preserved historic village, and the one scene where Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, and Adrien Brody are sitting in an overgrown area and Adrien Brody pulls out a red berry and it's the Fall, and the woods all desolate and frightening, but I am still trying to reconcile my admiration for what the film chose to say with what I wish that it didn't- that being that I wanted haunted woods and failing that would have settled for conspiracy/horror ambiguity