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I remember jumping in my seat in the theater (lemmy.world)

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[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I read somewhere that they weren't aliens, they were demons, and the water only worked because it was blessed, so it became holy water. What a twist!

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

The whole movie is a Christian allegory. It's probably one of the reasons Mel Gibson was in it.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They called the little girl an angel more than once.

Also see where he locked one in a closet and it couldn't get out. Don't know if that's a demon thing or not, but he couldn't see it's reflection in the knife.

It turns out that Shyamalan, in an interview from 2006, has confirmed this.

"You know what I said about giving a Dracula movie a deceptive title? That's what I did with Signs. That was a story about a war between Heaven and Hell. The aliens were demons and the people's dead loved ones were angels."

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What a twist!

https://youtu.be/4LGu1sOvxYs

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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