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A 2008 film by [[M. Night Shyamalan]].

Something big is going down: people all over the East Coast start to kill themselves for no reason, and there's no explanation as to the mass suicides. High school teacher Elliot Moore ([[Mark Wahlberg]]) tries to escape New York ~~City -- where~~ the suicides ~~began -- with~~ his wife Alma ([[Zooey Deschanel]]), fellow teacher Julian (John Leguizamo), and Julian's daughter Jess.

Something big is going down: people all over the East Coast start to kill themselves for no reason, and there's no explanation as to the mass suicides. High school teacher Elliot Moore ([[Mark Wahlberg]]) tries to escape New York City—where the suicides began—with his wife Alma ([[Zooey Deschanel]]), fellow teacher Julian (John Leguizamo), and Julian's daughter Jess.

The movie takes a Hitchcockian approach to the ~~horror -- the~~ suicides merely happen without explanation -- [[It Was His Sled|until somebody]] ''[[It Was His Sled|does]]'' [[It Was His Sled|explain it:]] [[Green Aesop|plants, as a warning to humanity,]] [[You Fail Biology Forever|are emitting a neurotoxin that makes a person's survival instinct kick into reverse.]]

The movie takes a Hitchcockian approach to the horror—the suicides merely happen without explanation -- [[It Was His Sled|until somebody]] ''[[It Was His Sled|does]]'' [[It Was His Sled|explain it:]] [[Green Aesop|plants, as a warning to humanity,]] [[You Fail Biology Forever|are emitting a neurotoxin that makes a person's survival instinct kick into reverse.]]

Compare ''[[Alive the Final Evolution|Alive: The Final Evolution]]''.

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* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: The Private's use of "Cheese and Crackers!" as an exclamation, and the construction worker's use of the word "thing" for "penis" feel a little bit out of place in an R-Rated film.

* [[Green Aesop]]

* [[Humans Are ~~Bastards~~]]: This is thought to be the reason for the plants' sudden "evolution" and revolt against humanity. Additionally, in one scene, {{spoiler|a guy shoots two teens because he doesn't want them coming into his house}}.

* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: This is thought to be the reason for the plants' sudden "evolution" and revolt against humanity. Additionally, in one scene, {{spoiler|a guy shoots two teens because he doesn't want them coming into his house}}.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: This is what gets the two teens killed. {{spoiler|Trying to force your way into a boarded-up house whose owner ''does not'' want you letting in whatever "poison gas" is outside is a very stupid idea. Also, when one character realises the toxin is coming through a slit in the roof of their SUV, why didn't he trying plugging it? His tie would have fit perfectly.}}

** "Plastic. I'm talking to a plastic plant. I'm still doing it."

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* [[Space Whale Aesop]]

* [[Television Geography]]: The real Filbert, PA is near Uniontown, PA, about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh - this puts it very far from the eastern part of the state that the guy in the restaurant points out on the TV screen, and well past their train’s stated destination of Harrisburg. The actual town has no rail service, either.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Spencer Breslin's character's [[~~Narm|narmtastic~~]] line "Open this door, bitch!"

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Spencer Breslin's character's [[narm]]tastic line "Open this door, bitch!"

* [[Too Soon]]: People voluntarily jumping off a building in Manhattan as a result of (what is initially thought of as) a terrorist attack brings flashes of 9/11.

* [[When Trees Attack]]: And how!