The Happening.
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*spoilers invovled in thinking this through
I would have to go back and watch it again (HA!) but I thought that the message of "respect mother earth or she will get you" was a little too on the nose for Shyamalan. I kept picking up on "every person gives off energy" and that the earth was responding to that. I noticed some little things like the newspaper headline that read "Killadelphia" and the fact that the old lady was alone when she was infected. The vibe I got was that there needed to be more love not more hybrid cars. Also why I think Marky Mark and Doe Eye were not infected when they went outside to be together. They were both full of L-O-V-E for each other (I thought the only part of the movie that felt like a Shyamalan film started when they were at the old lady's house and ended when they left the old lady's house.) Even if "love one another" was the message it doesn't save the movie, but it does leave a little bit of hope for future Shyamalan ventures.