What is 'happening'?  I'll tell you.  Basically what is happening is writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has run out of good ideas after The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, and you are watching the resulting train wreck.  This latest attempt in a dismal series of his failures starts out pretty scary with some people killing themselves and others just standing around motionless getting really confused.  If you saw the trailer, then you are up to speed.  Everyone still 'normal' heads for the hills.  Some more uninteresting stuff happens, and then things get really slow.  This was the part left out of the trailer.  A few more people die, and it becomes apparent that the 'happening' is a toxin that is activated by large gatherings of people.

Here is where the social commentary comes in. The greenies have always believed that humans are a parasite on the planet.  Well this movie is just a vehicle to send that message.  There is no explanation or resolution; the 'toxin' just goes away. The blame is placed on the earth rejecting humans as pests.  Thats it.  Oh yeah, and the movie ends with the same thing happening in Paris.  Ooooooo.  Scary.

If I wanted to see a fantasy movie that made me feel guilty, I would have rented Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth.  I suppose Hollywood is no different than Washington, in that it is filled with people who have such special insight, that they obviously know what is better for the Earth than us mere mortals. Does anyone else get the impression that the environmental movement is really an anti-human movement?

Oh, and in case you want to see the movie, you might not want to read this as it might contain spoilers.