Split (2016) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2024-07-14 00:30:46 +0000 UTCHappy weekend everyone! I hope you're having a fab one. This was a WILD movie and I'm looking forward to talking about this! Thanks so much for watching with me! [Direct link here.]
✦ KL
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I just watched your reaction on YouTube to Unbreakable and saw in the comments that you had already reacted to Split and Glass on Patreon, so I immediately signed up to watch your Glass reaction! I watched Unbreakable when it first came out on DVD with my parents, we rented it from Blockbuster and it became one of my favorite films! So 15 years later when I was watching Split, I remember the seen at the end of the movie when the camera slowly creeps up on the Horde looking at himself in the mirror and the theme from Unbreakable started playing, I started getting chills. I love the soundtrack to Unbreakable and especially the main theme, so when it started playing I freaked out! Something had to be going on, because it hadn't been played once in the rest of the movie. And its a pretty unique theme. Then when we saw David in the Dinner, I got goosebumps and ridiculously excited! I love these two films so much! I'm glad you watched and enjoyed them!
SomeOneGuy
2024-08-31 09:50:35 +0000 UTCExcellent reaction. Loved how you imagined being in that exact situation and had genuine fear. Watching you react to this was giving ME anxiety!
boss435
2024-07-16 20:46:38 +0000 UTCOh and since you asked multiple times, I assume Dennis is spraying them with chloroform. It’s an inhaled sedative. It’s easily made with household chemicals. If you’ve ever seen an old movie where they hold a cloth over someone’s face and they pass out, it was chloroform. It’s dangerous and if administered in the wrong dose can lead to death by cardiac arrest so it’s not used as an anesthetic anymore.
Bryan Dempsey
2024-07-16 04:17:14 +0000 UTCFirst, I’m going to out my and apologize. Just as I was going to bed, I read your Unbreakable post & posted a comment. Then promptly fell asleep. When I woke up my brain registered that my comment contained a spoiler and I should have known better. I immediately deleted it but I fear some damage was done. I offer no excuse, I know better and I’m sorry. I will try harder in the future. But I’m glad we’re able to enjoy the story & the characters. It really does its own thing and is such a showcase of McAvoy’s talent. This was also my first exposure to Anya Taylor-Joy who has really built up quite the resume. This is my second watch of the movie and am glad to watch it along all the fine people here. While I have no experience with DID, I do have an uncle with schizophrenia and have been present for a few of his psychotic breaks over my lifetime. It’s scary every time and he’s very dangerous. While this is an extreme and fictional story, I think Shyamalan and McAvoy did a great job illustrating the dangers posed when someone is in such a state.
Bryan Dempsey
2024-07-16 01:58:16 +0000 UTCOne last quick thought, I enjoyed your appreciation of how big James’s pupils were when “The Beast” was pulling the bars apart to get to Casey in the final showdown. He did look terrifying, and animalistic, at first. I really enjoy his transition from terrifying to wondrous joy and exhilaration when he realizes that Casey is just like him as he sees her true self for the first time, scars and all. Another great use of that natural look of innocence, it makes his look of terror more effective, and Anya played off this very well with her emoting and physical performance. I love that you can see that empathy and connection again between the two of them. 👏👏👏
CheshireKat528
2024-07-15 07:41:45 +0000 UTCSide note: I remember when you would post your thoughts after the edit. I really enjoyed that, it was nice to get more flushed out thoughts for some of the heavier films. I also enjoy the on the spot scrambled reviews, if you ever feel your thoughts warrant a quick post edit thought dump I be interested in hearing them at the end of the video. When you have the time, it would be a fun surprise every now and then on the edits! Thanks for spoiling us with all this great entertainment!
CheshireKat528
2024-07-15 07:13:17 +0000 UTCI really enjoy the scene where Casey asks Hedwig if she is lying when she tells him about getting in trouble at school on purpose, so she can get detention and be alone. You see a spark of connection, not just of trust, but understanding and empathy between her and Hedwig, and by extension Kevin. Casey almost seems as if she knows that Hedwig is simply another layer to help defend against would be attackers and to hide the scars of trauma. We see as the movies unfolds that Casey wears lots of layers of clothing with long sleeves and pants. I love this bit of visual storytelling and the way we see all of the layers be stripped away as the film unfolds. Both James & Anya truly shine in this one. I was more familiar with McAvoy as an actor than I was Taylor-Joy when I first watched this movie. James was the main reason I wanted to see this movie truth be told, well, not to much truth, because spoilers… Anya certainly impressed me with her performance of Casey and I am ashamed to admit that I still need to watch more of her work…perhaps I will evolve into a teleporting time traveler so I can catch up, or maybe I should start a reaction channel 😜 I do seriously need to make time to watch both Fury Road & Furiousa. Anyway, this was a wonderful revisit of this movie, I LOVE that you were taking notes and your appreciation for the bits of humor Hedwig provides. Idk, Hedwig might be my favorite character of the 8 or 9? we saw McAvoy bring to life in this film. I have always thought that James has an eternal innocence about his looks, especially his eyes. That natural feature pairs well with the youthful, playful, & mischievous nature of Hedwig. Whenever an actor can convey both innocence and mischief bordering on sinister simultaneously, and make me chuckle…and he still doesn’t have an Oscar 🤦♀️😆
CheshireKat528
2024-07-15 07:10:26 +0000 UTCI rather detest movie awards shows. Bunch of rich, pretty people congratulating each other for being rich and pretty, and then broadcasting it. That said, give James McAvoy all the awards. All of them. He even gets the one for catering, or whatever.
Steve Mercier
2024-07-14 16:49:51 +0000 UTCThis was a rare film for me because I found it difficult to not sympathize with Kevin, our villain. He faced something so traumatic that his brain literally broke like a mirror. While a few of the personalities were a bit exaggerated, it was a fantastic view of the mental condition. His trauma doesn't excuse him from kidnapping and killing those young women, however I feel like in all of that he was just looking for his equal so to speak. He became the predator of people who used to treat him like prey. "You are one of the broken. You are different from all the rest. Rejoice! Your heart is pure. Rejoice."
Nathan Jasper, the Artist Formerly Known as Primary
2024-07-14 06:51:24 +0000 UTCA Split reaction already?! What a wonderful treat you've given us this day! Oh heck, I'm due for a rewatch anyway... ... Oh wow, it was so interesting seeing you go from horror at the girls' situation early on to being SUPER invested in all of the identities to then finding the Beast actually terrifying. James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy both acted their butts off in this. 👏👏👏
Nestor Custodio
2024-07-14 05:09:27 +0000 UTCWhen I first watched it, the subtle nods from the doctor about human ability and supernatural made me think the film was talking about more than just Kevin. And the Amtrak station scene where they lay down the flowers sent me in a stir in my seat at the theater. I remembered the bits of info, the beast was at the train yard, Kevin's dad died in a train accident, and the beast supposedly having unbreakable skin. That's when I knew it might be connected. I also love how, according to the beast, the "broken" are stronger and purer. The opposite of David.
Carl Johnson
2024-07-14 05:00:26 +0000 UTCBased on what you said, I understand you're satisfied with how things played out, so I know this is all water under the bridge, but yes, this is exactly why it's so hard to avoid having this one being spoiled, because the explanation *is* the spoiler, which is that it turns out to be a sequel to Unbreakable. It's by a different studio, by now you've seen how it has a much different story and tone, none of the actors return aside from Shyamalan himself and the little cameo at the end, and of course, this came out 16 years later, so it really was a huge surprise at the time, even if some of the visual marketing may have oh-so-subtly hinted at it (the poster for Unbreakable has David and Elijah framed within shards of broken glass, and the poster for Split is Kevin behind cracked glass). I was actually one of the people who was spoiled on Split when it came out, although I may have wanted to be spoiled because I wasn't sure if I wanted to see it. In any case, it's been a few years since I've watched it (probably right before Glass opened in theaters), and I was surprised at how differently it played for me now. At the time, the split personality thing was the hook, and so you go in expecting it to be a performance piece for McAvoy, but even though I still obviously knew what it was going to be going in, I saw his performance and how good it really is with fresh eyes (Anya Taylor-Joy as well). Very interesting also to see the change in Shyamalan's filmmaking watching Unbreakable and Split back-to-back. There are still things that make it clear that he made it, like you say in the video, but The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village (not sure about some of the other ones after leading up to The Visit) all have a certain '90s Hollywood glossiness/classiness in the cinematography (and in Unbreakable he pushes that look into a form of stylization, with the movie taking place in a cool blue world that doesn't necessarily look like reality), whereas Split has a comparatively stripped-down and simplified digital look that feels more like the real world, and with it I get the sense that Shyamalan is a little looser and more casual, and not so rigid. One nice touch that I didn't notice in theaters but which is so much more obvious after a friend pointed it out and also so many contemporary re-watches of Unbreakable, in the last scene of Dennis/Patricia/Hedwig, the score segues into the main score theme from Unbreakable, and continues through to the end of the final scene.
Tyler Foster
2024-07-14 04:51:04 +0000 UTCI am probably bias due to my own mental disablites. I loved this movie. I really liked the whole mutiple personalities theme.
Yoshi1990
2024-07-14 04:27:24 +0000 UTCA masterclass in acting by James McAvoy here. Probably why its my favorite of the three. I'm very much looking forward to Glass as well.
RichieRich
2024-07-14 04:17:53 +0000 UTCHey bub we need to talk 🤪
Perry Campbell
2024-07-14 02:27:40 +0000 UTCOh snap!!! I’m just about done with your last JJ episode, and now this? You treat us too well. 😉
William
2024-07-14 00:44:22 +0000 UTC
