What I think of the movie "Lady In The Water"

I thought the movie was a rough handling on topics like "how we are all connected to one another" - a bastard form of "six degrees of kevin bacon"...sorta. It's also about finding your own identity. Like, questions asked by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle....What is the meaning of life...
Also there were themes of "no man is an island"... by metaphysical poet John Donne, letting go of your past by talking to a group gathered around you in a circle of trust...abit like alcoholic anonymous I guess - Hi, my name is [insert name here] and I have been an alcoholic since 1997, think global, act local - be in for world peace, environmental issues blah blah.....all done through the use of a fable - A Bedtime Story - as Night Shaymalalnklsdal would have you believe.

And in order to achieve world peace etc...you need to get a cynical film critic mauled by a lycan-esque creature who in turn gets pounded and dragged into a moribund state by a trio of primates looking like extras from Planets of the Ape (one did look like Helena Bonham Carter-Burton. Sorta..You also need a guy with a past he cannot forget (Paul Giamatti) and a korean chick (not Sandra Oh but a look-a-like) - sorta like Sideways, but not exactly. Also you gotta borrow some Chinese wuxia legend - The Condor from Return Of The Condor Heroes so that "lady in the water" can be air-freight away. She could have been DHL or UPS away. But then it wouldn't be a bedtime story worth telling..... You also need a dad who, instead of doing sudoku which is all the rage now, is still doing crossword puzzles and his son who "reads" cereal boxes, seven sisters - actually a name of a group of seven stars......but ultimately, what do you need? A book titled "The Cookbook" by the director who made more than a cameo in this movie. It is to be read by some kid who will be king, ok, president and do great deeds so Night Shyamalan appear more than a couple of seconds...

But overall it's a rather enjoyable movie. About how people destined for greatness may still be scared to ascend to such greatness, how in order to ascend to such greatness, you need a group of people who mean well and willing to help, and people who are willing to help sometimes need more help....and sometimes the people who want to help may not have the capacity to help....so you gotta know someone who knows someone who can get things done....it's called networking.....so Night Shyamalan, the director who gave us classics like Signs, Sixth Sense made a movie about networking?

Highlight of the movie was the director of cinematography/photography blah blah was Christopher Doyle.