Eep. So creepy yet I keep looking 
One of the characters actually said “the animals are trying to tell us something.” 
Either they are telling us “your ways are destroying the earth” or “OBEY”. 
It’s one thing to think “Those animals are consciously deliberately going out of their way to communicate specifically with humans. If only we understood their intent, we could act on it as they apparently want us to.”
And quite another to think “Those animals behaving oddly are reacting to something. The fact they are all acting nervously or are fleeing that way suggests maybe we oughta put down our phone-toys, pay attention, and do the same. They may know or somehow sense something we don’t. Yet.”
I don’t know which meaning the movie authors and hence movie characters had in mind, but I could see a real person using the familiar phrase “They’re trying to tell us something” to mean the latter, not the former. So “trying” as in “observable outcome” rather than “trying” as in “intent”. At least in some circumstances.
Someone re-wrote The Happening, except this time it is not just the plants trying to kill the bad, bad, humans.
Written by a bad, bad, human from New York City, or Long Island, that has never even been outside and has no idea how the world could continue to funciton if their iPhone quit working.
This movie is stupid, which should already be apparent since it stars Julia Roberts.
By an odd coincidence, I was just in Mount Auburn Cemetery last weekend. I was looking for, and found, the grave of Buckminster Fuller. Just a few steps away, I happened across a marker for Margaret Fuller, and read a little bit more about her. She was a writer and early, perhaps even the first, feminist. Returning to the U.S. after a few years in Europe, she died when her ship ran aground on Fire Island only 50 yards from shore.