Real life doesn't fit into little boxes that were drawn for it - and surely, the ambitions of this week's high concept exploration of the superhero by M. Night Shyamalan can hardly fit into this episode. In Unbreakable, Bruce Willis' David Dunn learns he is nigh-invincible following a deadly train crash, as Samuel L. Jackson's enigmatic Elijah Price observes his progress and guides him to use his gifts in the service of others. Speaking 22 years after the release of a film that was very much on the vanguard of comic book properties in studio filmmaking, this episode conducts a retrospective analysis of this film's metafictional aesthetics, Shyamalan narrative toolbox, and the budding "rivalry" between mediums - comic books and film!
Denis Mellier's Article - "World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books Metalepsis and Figurative Process of Graphic Fiction"
