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“The Broken Are More Evolved.” Or are they?

Eastrail 177; A Fantasy Ride Into The Human Mind Throughout the Eastrail 177 trilogy, you will be made to believe and then question this exact ideology by M. Night Shyamalan. First coming forth in the second movie of this trilogy, ‘Split (2016)’, this quote left me hooked on the hidden philosophical and psychological theories behind the characters and their actions throughout the three movies, ‘Unbreakable (2000)’, ‘Split(2016), and the final call that questions the core concept of the entire series, ‘Glass (2019)’. Main Plot: Stated by the director himself, the main plot is heavily inspired by comics, which explains a huge part of the antagonist’s psychology in the first movie, ‘ Unbreakable ’. The mastermind behind the majority of the story is introduced in this movie as Mr. Glass, which was originally a name bullies used to call Elijah Prince. Being born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, his bones were as brittle as glass and broke as easily too. This was the root of his character devel...

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