OVER BLACK SCENE CARD
Unbreakable Makes the Handshake a Myth Reversal
The reversal works because the mentor has been testing a genre hypothesis with real bodies. Comic-book belief becomes horrifying once proof is revealed as engineered trauma.
Why it works
The handshake converts guidance into authorship. The film's quiet myth-making snaps into a moral ledger where every disaster was part of one man's need for meaning.
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