Signs Film Analysis

In the movie Signs, the filmmaker uses signs to show how everything occurs for a reason and to demonstrate how one man’s faith will be brought to the test. In this film, there are many conflicts which include Graham Hess losing his faith in God and a terrible father and son relationship that needs rebuilding. However, Graham will come to find out that everything in the past six months has been designed for one moment: an alien invasion.
The four main characters, Graham Hess, Uncle Merrill, Morgan, and Bo, have very few scenes where they are not together. The filmmaker wanted to illustrate how the relationship between Graham and Morgan has been torn apart by the death of Colleen, who was Graham’s wife. Furthermore, Morgan blames Graham for

the death of his mother, when in reality her death was a sacrifice so that she could tell Graham the signs. Morgan has had asthma his whole childhood, which was once a problem but ended up saving his life. Bo has been looking up to her brother and has been leaving cups of water all around the house ever since she was born. Uncle Merrill moved in with the family after Colleen had passed away, and behaved as the soldier in the household. Without him, Graham and the kids would not have survived the invasion. In one scene on the couch, Graham talks to Merrill about how there are two types of people: believers and non-believers. Specifically, the believers think that everything occurs on purpose, and everything is designed by God. The non-believers think that everything is chance, and that they are alone because there is no God. Graham has become one of the non-believers because of the tragic death of his wife.
The filmmaker wanted his audience to determine that the main conflict in this film is that Graham’s faith in God is being tested. For the past six months, Graham has refused to believe in God because he does not want to be mad at him. For this reason, he is mad because he would otherwise he would have to think that God had killed his wife on purpose, when Graham has dedicated his whole lift to Him. In the time that Graham has been grieving the loss of his wife, God has actually been testing his faith and wants Graham to realize that everything happens for a reason. Another conflict of this film is the alien invasion, which some people consider to be the end of the world. There is actually some good that came from this conflict, because Morgan and Graham ended up fixing their broken father and son relationship. More importantly, the alien invasion caused people to rethink their whole life and not to take anything for granted.
The film has a final and most important scene, which is when one alien is looking for revenge stays behind because Graham had cut its fingers off.

After spending a night in the basement during the alien invasion, the family thinks that all is well and that the aliens have returned to their own planet. In reality, one alien is present and picks up Morgan and is set on killing him along with the rest of the family. Everyone in the room is peering at one another wondering what their first move should be. During this time, Graham recalls what Colleen had said to him right before she would die. After he has the flashback about his last moments with her, it all came together. Because of this, Graham looks around the room remembering what she had said, and he glances at Merrill to see him standing next to his bat on the wall that he had swung and hit a ball 507 feet. With this bat, he also had said that “it felt wrong not to swing.” After this, the alien had already sprayed its poisonous gas on Morgan, but luckily his lungs were already shut due to his asthma. Graham then told Merrill to “swing away,” and he hit the alien into the table where Bo had planted her “water bombs.” To clarify, Bo would always ask for a glass of water because there was a monster outside her window, which makes sense now. By the alien being harmed by the water, they realized its weakness so Merrill then proceeded to kill it. During this, Graham was outside with Morgan wondering if God took him just like

He took Colleen. This all happened the way it did because of the signs they had, and by listening to Colleen. God was testing Graham’s faith, and even though it took him a while to realize it, everything happens for a reason.
After the invasion in Signs, Graham comes to realize that everything does take place for a reason and that his lifelong duty is to be a priest.