Analysis

Throughout these three films, masterpieces crafted by M.Nigh Shyamalan do show maturity and development.

In term of themes, supernatural elements from Signs have changed from literal creature to unidentified phenomenon in The Happening. The threat of human lives in the Sign was being influence by the direct object, which are aliens. This threat has transformed into partial object which is the fake monster played by Noah. In the third film, The Happening, this threat of supernatural has sophisticatedly grown to invisible form, which is the gas.

Other than that, the broken family used in Signs was only Graham’s family but in The Village, there are several broken families. This shows that M.Night Shyamalan keeps the signature of broken family by expanding it.

In term of styles, maturity can be seen on the flashback editing. In Signs, he relies heavily on flashbacks to bring out the whole story. This technique obviously reduced much in The Village which only shown once at almost the end of the film. He most likely applies lesser hints to help the audience to figure out the whole story.

Moreover, cameo appearance also shows some development on it. In these three films, his own appearance from Signs is more complex then The Village and The Happening. The maturity happens when he appears lesser and the character getting simpler in each film but at the same they hold some special significant for those particular films.