A needle drop, unlike a film's original score, is when a movie uses a pre-existing recording of a song as either background music or music in the scene itself. When music or sound is in the scene itself — as in the characters we are watching can also hear the sound — it is cha...
Shyamalan's performance as Ran is almost beside the point, given the blatant and thinly veiled double meaning of his role and the film as a whole. By casting himself as the brilliant artist-savior of humanity, as well as including a haughty film critic character (played by Bob Balaban) who...