Here is some more evidence that could link to the belief that Bo is an alien. Isn't it funny that it was her baby monitor that was able to communicate with the aliens and that it turned on by itself? Also, if you see it again, when the son goes on the car roof and points the monitor to the sky he gets nothing. Then Merrill is holding him and Graham is lifting Bo up to the roof. Right when Bo touches Merrill, that's when the voices were heard between the two aliens. Was it the connection from Bo to Merrill to the son that the aliens were able to communicate??

Damn! Is about all I have to say. I've now seen Signs a total of three times and I never caught anything like that (of what 'white_chocolate' noted). These posts are getting killer by the second. Looks like I may need a 4th viewing (wow). You practically need to go in with a notebook so you don't forget what to look for (not that I will...).

Actually, a good question to ask in regard to Bo's baby monitor is: did it have any batteries in it? Because I have no clue.

A simple tiny analysis with our own (non space faring) technology can decipher what lies in our atmosphere (there's water in the air and the soil I'm sure). Ultimately, I guess my argument-ending point is, what did they think clouds were?

Adding to 'GSnrub', with the aliens obviously using the crop fields as their hideout, wouldn't they be walking on at least somewhat wet soil of some sort in the process of their running about (or be touching up against wet crops at some point)? Also, my guess is that the night would allow the environment to get very damp...however, these are one of the only possible flaws I've managed to come up with.

Some are criticizing the film's weakness in that water is in more places than even the secrets suggests as mentioned in the past few posts. However, we have to realize that 6th Sense, as however classic the twist was, had its flaws. Malcolm would've likely realized he was dead real early on if he had slept in the bed with his wife, yet we never ever seem to see where he sleeps. Also, the first time he meets with Cole in the house, it appears like Malcolm and the mother had been chatting away but if you knew the logics, they weren't. If you asked questions about it, there's no logical reason that would've had Malcolm in there. If he thought he was alive, he'd come in through the front door but the mother wouldn't have seen him.

So Signs may have its flaws dealing with water and the moist or whatnot, but that didn't stop Sixth Sense from being a phenomenon in both box office terms and moviegoers' minds.

A good point has come up that could clear up these moist & misc. water flaws. In Signs, the alien at the climax is killed off by the water in the glasses around the house. But if you think about it, Bo had touched these glasses previously and claimed they were contaminated. Being a (presumed) angel, she could've converted the substance to holy water, and therefore, have it be deadly against the aliens. Or possibly, the water was purely straight out contaminated and the critters are killed off by that much.

Sorry if I offend anyone, but I really didn't think very much of "Signs." I just couldn't suspend my disbelief far enough to appreciate this film, which I don't think is worth very much discussion.

By the end of the picture I felt like I had seen a poorly written episode of The X-Files with similar production values (after seeing that shameful excuse for an alien) and solid acting.

Series of questions:
1) Our air is full of moisture, yet it didn't affect the beings?
2) At all the locations where crop circles were created across the world, it never rained once within the few days the aliens were probing? Not even a drizzle?
3) No alien ever stepped into the wet dew on the grass in the morning?
4) Were these beings intelligent or thick-headed mules...all they had going for defense was some poisonous gas?
5) A kitchen knife is strong enough to sever a few digits and a baseball bat is powerful enough to greatly injure these creatures, yet I am sure a firearm would not penetrate their body and an alien full of bullet holes would survive as only water can harm these beings???

I especially enjoyed how the alien in the household takes the beating without ever truly trying to attack Merrill. Moreover, the poor excuse for a twist at the end (which I found very similar to the conclusion of The Mothman Prophecies...another film I did not enjoy) also hurt my opinion on the film.

Secrets and symbolism...what the hell??? This film so blatantly and redundantly reveals anything that could be a symbol and then beats it to death...much like Merrill killing that alien. If I want to discuss a film, I would like to discuss one that couldn't easily be interpreted by the likes of a four year old boy.

I also enjoyed the child prodigy in family who spoke with a better vocabulary than 95% of adults I have met in my life and showed more intelligence than both the father and the brother combined...how the hell old was that kid anyway??? Twelve or something...actually, he was probably ten.

Also, I felt the film moved too slowly at times. I did believe the film displayed good suspense at times and was well shot for the most part.

Well, just my opinion...5/10

One more hinting that puzzles me. Now, maybe I was seeing things but wasn't Shyamalan wearing the same shirt in the car at his house that he was wearing the night of him killing Graham's wife? I am about 90% sure it is and I would love for someone to verify this. If it is true, what does it mean?

Bo and her mother are not aliens. That just doesn't make sense. However, I would contend that Bo is angel-like and has some paranormal capability since she's able to see her brother's death. Frankly, I think the water that hurts the alien (which was always touched by Bo first) was contaminated by Bo. In essence, she's blessing or purifying the water to drive the aliens (or demons) away. I think the people in the Middle East beat back the aliens not by water (since it IS a desert), but by just fighting back in hand-to-hand combat. Fear works in the aliens' favor and if a person's not afraid (like Ray Reddy wasn't), he can beat the alien like Ray Reddy did.

Are we sure that it is the water itself that hurt the alien? Perhaps it is something in the water, since Bo WAS complaining about it being contaminated. Or a more "out there" idea: perhaps the water was made deadly to the alien by Bo having contact with it. All the water glasses were ones that Bo had drank half of. The more I think about it, the more it seems Bo is the center of it all.

The reports saying that some had found a primitive way of defeating the aliens could have been talking about something totally different. Like spitting on them or something. Maybe it was Bo's backwash that killed it.

Not exactly a secret or meaning, but just a thought that came up. Since Friday, I've talked with people (or overheard) who found Signs to be scary, suspenseful, funny and frightening (or even funnier than it is scary) etc, but despite my original advice to see Signs with a large audience, I have a theory in mind that could prove to contradict those words of wisdom.

When you're with a large audience, the movie may not appear as scary because you never know what may happen in the theater with out-loud remarks, comments, or vocal reactions that may take away from the horror of the situation.

If you're one of few people in the theater, you may realize the real horror of the situation because there's no one in there to create the comfortable feeling of "I'm not alone".

The part of the movie where Graham is talking to the guy who killed his wife. The guy says that he thinks that the aliens don't like water - that's why he was going to the lake. Now, how could he have possibly known about the water? If he had, wouldn't he have killed the alien in his pantry instead of just leaving it there?

Well, we know that the guy (Shyamalan) had been injured and we pretty much speculate that there was some sort of an attack, and Shyamalan's character got out relatively safely, but hurt. He may not have had time to think about attacking the alien, but more so, just trying to get out. I truly believe that in some situations, your mind won't be thinking as clearly as usual in heated scenarios, so Shyamalan's goal may have just been to get the hell out of there and leave it locked in. He may not have thought about attacking the critter because he was too frightened at the time, as most of us would be.

If you think about it, Shyamalan may not have known that water was what killed them (how would he know?), but he had a hunch that that was what had them avoid you (given the locations of the crop signs). Adding to that, even if his character had surrounded himself in glasses of water around his house when the alien had invaded his home, there'd be no definite answer to whether the critters would recognize the substance as it is not clearly water to them. When they're looking for water, they're probably gazing out for large groups of it (ponds, lakes, rivers etc) and may not recognize a glass of water as dangerous until it was dropped upon them. Shyamalan likely figures that if he barricades himself around a large quantity of the substance, he'd be safe (why he heads for the lake).

Then again, at the end it is subtly hinted that it isn't purely water that harms them, but water that was marked by Bo herself. So even if Shyamalan had taken the device into consideration, there's no way of knowing whether it would have worked or not. From what we gather from the conclusion, Bo is the only doorway to defeating the antagonists in that dilemma. Some people might ask why they don't just pick up a shotgun and go trigger happy. Who says the Hess family has weapons of such? Plus, is it probable reasoning to include that when you're frightened you are not thinking straight? They're main focus could have been getting to safety to the point where grabbing on Uzi just didn't come to mind.

Okay, I really think people are just putting too much thought into this film. All these theories are interesting, but this was not what Shyamalan intended for us to perceive. He spelled it out at the end exactly what he was trying to show. Just face the facts. There is no twist, there are no secret meanings. Just look at the film for what it is and nothing more.

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