Split
Split is a 2016 American psychological thriller film written, directed and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Betty Buckley. The film follows a man with dissociative identity disorder who kidnaps and imprisons three teenage girls in an isolated underground facility. Principal photography began on November 11, 2015, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 26, 2016, and was released in the United States on January 20, 2017, by Universal Pictures. It received generally positive reviews; critics highly praised McAvoy's performance, and welcomed Shyamalan's direction. Some mental health advocates criticized the film for its stigmatization of mental illness. Split was a commercial success, grossing $278 million worldwide on a budget of $9 million, becoming Blumhouse Productions' highest-grossing film until 2023 when Five Nights at Freddy's overtook it. Split is a standalone sequel to Shyamalan's 2000 film Unbreakable although not marketed as such, instead saving the revelation for a scene featuring Bruce Willis reprising his Unbreakable role in an uncredited cameo. Commentators dubbed Split the first-ever "stealth sequel", and the first solo supervillain origin film. The 2019 film Glass, which combined the casts and characters of both previous films, concluded Shyamalan's Unbreakable trilogy.
I have to go. He's got an appointment. When I fall asleep, one of the others keeps trying to reach the doctor lady to tell on us. That pant, it's got a red lining. You can see it in the long slit down the side. We have been talking about silk-and-wool blend for 20 minutes. Can I guess that you emailed me in the middle of the night for an emergency session due to garden-variety issues?
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A high school from Camden, New Jersey was on a field trip at your place of work and two young ladies came up to you. And one took your hand and put it under her shirt on her breast and the second one did the same and then they just ran off laughing to their friends. You surmised that it might be on a dare. You said they were 17 or 18. You said it upset you for days. It was just a teenage prank. I get that now.
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And see, that's my mistake. I believe that I went over this incident with you too fast. Although you said you were fine, and the other identities I met with said it was fine, I believe that this brought up issues from when you were a child and abused. Sometimes another incident of abuse can cause suppressed personalities to take the light.
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Dennis, if this is you, I completely understand why you felt the need to take over and protect the others. Please! Doctor, not this again. The others told me that you and Patricia told the group about this Beast. And I told them that these are just scary stories that Dennis and Patricia tell the others to scare them. How this Beast can crawl on walls, like the best rock climbers using the slightest friction and imperfections to hold his body close to seemingly sheer surfaces. How his skin is thick and tough like the hide of a rhinoceros.
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