The Lady In The Water

Last night I watched a movie by M.Night Shyamalan, The Lady In The Water.

I read the reviews in the internet, and mostly I found was disapproving. They say it has a lot of loopholes. Horrible CGI effects. Inconsistencies.

I say it depends upon the viewer. I found the movie beautiful. I found it touching.
The movie is telling us that we should always be in touch with the child in us. We should reclaim our innocence, innocence that we lost because we let ourselves be swallowed by the life we thought we should live. We live for work, for money, for material things, for superficial happiness, for fake emotions.

I sometimes watch my nieces and nephews at play. How innocent they were. They don't care at all whether there is a war in Iran or someone died. That the government is corrupt. That the prices of basic commodities is getting higher and higher.

They just play, and if you listen to them laughing, something inside you laughs with them. You will feel the inner child in you wanting also to play.

The movie tells about a mythical creature called Narfs, a kind of sea nymph, who once upon a time had a close relationship with humans. They are the ones who could tell the future, who gives advice, who helps human reach their full potential and become great men. But soon men discovers that there is a lot to explore and learn in the physical world they are living in. They build houses, invent many things...until men live further and further from the water, from the sea, from the Narfs. Men become selfish, proud, arrogant and hurt each other. This saddens the Narfs and never stop reaching for humans to "awaken" their higher selves and get in touch with their inner child.

Naturally, it is a bedtime story in the East. But it was relived in the movie by a lowly maintenance man who got involved with a Narf, together with the other tenants in the apartment building he is working for, they try to help the Narf to find her "vessel" or the one human she came for to "awaken" him for his "purpose" in this world. Of course, it was not easy. The maintenance man has to check each tenant out who befits the characters in the bedtime story, not to mention make them believe and at the same time encounter a hellish creature who tries to kill the Narf to stop her.

But in the end, all tenants work together to send the Narf back home after she met her "vessel" in the form of a human writer whose writings will help change the world...his purpose.

It was really a poignant film that touches the inner self. Finding our purpose, make good use of what we have, and in a childlike enthusiasm and point of view, we can be successful in finding who we really are.

Yes, there are loopholes and other inconsistencies, but beyond that, listen and watch the story.
It might help you realize that not all in this world involves material and superficial things. What is important is how we lived.