The Macabre Ironies of M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap”

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Some movies dispense symbols subtly, like crumbs on a backwoods trail, but in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, “Trap,” there’s one symbolic idea, and it’s unleashed with the subtlety of a thunderclap, reverberating throughout the film with relentless intensity but scant variety. I doubt whether the idea is one that Shyamalan would admit to, or whether he even intended it. Nonetheless, it’s what gives this movie more of a...