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

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