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Unbreakable:
Myth or Reality?
John Howard
Colaiste Chriost Ri,
Capwell Rd., Cork
One of Bruce Willis's latest
films - UNBREAKABLE - deals with the birth of a hero from the makings
of a murderer. Bruce Willis plays a security guard that has a gift for
his job, protecting the public. At the beginning of the film we are introduced
to a black child who is agoraphobic. His mother draws him outside by leaving
a comic book on a bench everyday. The child develops a big interest in
comic books and eventually gets older and buys his own shop that specialises
in them. Then we see a disastrous train crash occurring with the security
guard - Bruce Willis - on it. Everyone is killed except Bruce Willis'
character. He doesn't even have a scratch on him. The owner of the comic
book shop - played by Samuel L. Jackson - reads about the train crash
and goes out to find him. He thinks that certain people can't be killed
or injured because they are supposed to protect everybody else and are
too valuable. He finds the security guard at the stadium where he works.
He notices the security guard's gift for the job when he is able to predict
the style of weapon a man in the queue was hiding. At this stage of the
film, we learn that the comic shop owner is disabled. He has crutches.
He follows the man carrying the gun down the stairs of a subway station
to discover the security guard's description of the weapon was correct.
As the film goes on the comic book shop owner and the security guard become
friends. The security guard's son becomes interested in whether or not
his dad is some kind of hero. He thinks his dad has a gift that allows
him to see the crimes of other people before they happen. Is he immortal?
Is he unbreakable? Why has he never got sick?
So, you would have to wonder
do heroes exist in our society? Are there people who never get sick? Are
there people who have been involved in life-threatening accidents and
survived? Are there people in this world that have a job to protect others?
We read in the newspapers and we see on the news extraordinary happenings
like drowning children being saved from rivers and people being rescued
from house fires. Are these survivors or their rescuers unbreakable? Can
they survive life-threatening accidents? We might never know the answers.
But these miraculous stories of rescues and survivals make us wonder do
heroes exist in our society.
Unbreakable is an original
film and it is not to be missed.
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