The village

The trailor for the movie was making out like its some non stop thriller.

Im still waiting to be scared from it, To me it just wasnt scary or thrilling, yes it was a good story but in went no where.

I find it odd though how this film appeals to some people and not to others.

I guess we all have different tastes!

 

I found this film kept me intrigued throughout, but I couldn't help but feel something was missing.. or maybe I expected something different in the end. It was an interesting concept in a creepy kinda way.

 

I agree with Winston's very valid point. I can see how this movie appealed to some viewers, even though I was disappointed mainly because of the script, or rather to be more precise plot development. The cinematography focused on nature, the woods. If I could choose a color that resembled 'The Village' it would be green and not the red, or yellow of the two (supposedly) opposing races. Green is relaxing, green draws you in and helps release your fantasy (bear in mind I've had a few, hic, so if it doesn't make sense, go have a few and return). So, on the green factor I would reward this movie a special green oscar. The actors involved in it, well, I have nothing but respect (unlike some other muppets that I've mentioned in other threads). The actors kept the menace and the whole momentum of this, I'm sorry but I have to say it, farce as if they were the last remaining survivors in the Alamo before it collapsed. If they spent a little more thought about how they served the ending, they could have presented a classic movie that we would still be talking about in a year's time. As it stands I think there will be 2-5 more threads on this subject before it dissloves beyond page 6.

 

What is scary about it is there are really people out there that live like that. Obivious to the rest of the world, and what is going on.

 

Huh?...What?...Someone say my name?

 

did anyone else notice (if i remember this correctly) when Lucious gets stabbed by noah and Ivy comes in afterwards while hes laying on the floor at his house dying and she holds him and gets blood all over her shirt, afterwards she gos out side and crys and she has no blood on her shirt but the same clothes on. i though forsure it was a mistake by the film makers

 

I loved this movie, it scared the shit outta me too (till I found out the werewolves were the elders)... I found the whole story to be intriguing. I wish i could live that way... I must add that signs was alright till the aliens' weakness became known, that was so horribly lame.

 

1. one of the elders is the one skinning the animals...
2. The red and gold are suposed to be very contrasting in colours...
3. haven't you realized by now that his movies are not for everyone and they are slow...but have excellent stories...movies with non-stop action have no story...the whole movie is about ivy's transformation
4. Night has done other genres...anyone heard of Stuart Little, he did that...people sometimes don't deviate well from their genres...look at hitchcock...
5. i tihkn night's character was in on the scheme where he knew they were in there and was helping keep people out...
6. they sent ivy cause she could not see the outside world...they sent her cause if they went, everyone would wonder why...and it was for "love" as william hurt's character put...
7. And probobly almost finally...traillers for most movies suck...
8. oops one more...there are people living like that...in fear...America...watch it again...the society is kept in fear as America has been to keep them from questioning



i love his movies with a passion...i disliked signs very much the first time i saw it, but after seeing it again, and you can look for all the little sutble things he puts in his movies, they are more enjoyable in my mind...

 

The idea of the movie was good, but overall, it sucked.

 

I just saw this today. I didn't know what to expect, and honestly i thought it was supposed to be a scary movie: a thriller. So, the twist at the end was nice... and really thought-provoking to me... a group of people from a counseling center, all successful, all suffering from pain, want to leave that pain to create a utopia, with no fear of hurt, no crime, etc.. So... they do. or try their hardest anyway... keeping the townspeople in fear, they are better able to bond with each other and become a support system, (but the elders are trading their fear of "real life" in the towns to causing a different kind of fear to keep everybody else out of the towns as well...) a self-sustaining village, not harming each other. except when we see Noah, who is obviously deranged, a person without a conscience i guess... hard to explain. anyway, I loved the movie, I thought it was really good... when the elders finally realize that there can be no utopia, that pain and fear and crime occur everywhere, they seem to decide that they will continue to try to keep up the charade of the "ones we do not speak of" since the only person to cross the woods was a blind girl, who even though being told the truth, and realizing that the outside world is NOT as horrible as she had been told (when she senses that kindness in the ranger's voice) she still goes back to the village, only to tell ppl that she killed one of the others... *sigh* wow i got jumbled there...

i don't think the movie was just a character study of ivy and her journey. i think it was look at people, what they will do to be "happy" and also a different take on govt as somebody said... keeping the society in fear to keep them under control. very interesting, imo...

oh and i think yellow was better than green. it is still a color you see all over in that movie... yellowing autumn leaves, isn't yellow symbolic of fear?... and too much green wouldn't create enough color contrast in the filmography... and the filmography was great i think...

okay i'm done. i liked it.

 

I will agree with everyone who said that too many scenes in this movie 'dragged on'.

I did see what Shamalan was getting at though.
The very idea of showing these young people having these dramatic encounters, long paced romances.
Can you even think of any modern youth experiencing that kind of romance and drama (ya, ok mellow drama in this case)

The point is - after all is said and done, and the 'twist' revealed and the 'village' exposed.......... let me ask you something?
are you SURE the villagers were so wrong to raise their children like this?

Are you SURE that the youth were not better off?

Are you CERTAIN they do not have MORE KNOWLEDGE of life because they were able to live these simple yet romantic lifestyles?

Thats what made me think anyway.. to wonder why or if the Village Elders were not in the right side of things after all?

Ok ya.. it really did drag its ass in a lot of scenes hehe.

 

if you notive..the yellow or "safe colour" is very similar to safron, which is a protective colour in hinduism [i think it was huinduism...]

 

That might explain a few things, because I think the director's ancestry is from India.

 

i thought this film sucked.

 

Totally. I was suckered in with the assumption that it was some sort of thriller. It was like one of those dodgy emails that we all open up that sound normal, then they try to tell you that you've inherited the grand national product of Nigeria, or something and all they need is your bank account number!

 

precisely...

the author's intoxicating name...

M. Night Shyamalan...

it was the whole reason i went to see it...

and then i was left cold.

well, i lie... i went because adrien brody is fucking hot.

but he played a murderous idiot... so i couldn't get off

*giggles*

 

Now THAT is quality!

 

Adrien Brody's performance in The Village was pretty good. Like he knew more than he was letting on, even as he suffered from his ailment. The main twist in the movie disappointed me, because it seemed so Shyamalan cliche. Not that it was intrinsically bad, but it felt like so much that this director has done already. New plot devices, perhaps even stories without twists, may be in order.

 

I dunno... I caught on to the upcoming 'twist' right from the opening credits (which run over a 'home film camera' look and if you look closely show them hiding a bottle cap they find on the porch.

Still.. the 'Twist' didnt make or break this for me.

I guess I just got really excited about the whole concept, what if that has/did happen and then wondering if maybe the village actually had things better after all.

Im still a HUGE Shamalan fan because for crying out loud his films are actually, really and truly 'Unique' among all the standard crapola and faux-innovative fair.

I do agree with many people that the village was far too slow and didnt really do everything it could have with the idea.

BTW.. one thing I thought was slightly 'clever'.. ..in one particular scene where only the Elders were speaking to each other (emotionally i might add) - Sigourney Weavers character drops the 'Village accent' (which if you noticed was meant to sound 'contrived') and starts speaking in a modern American womans way of speaking, pace, accent.

Slightly Clever on SHamalans part I thought.

Gad.. how do you spell his name!!! lol

 

I saw this movie a while ago...all I remember was this feeling of being ripped off. i mean, the concept wasn't bad....but the fact that I kept seeing it advertised as, "the scariest movie you'll see this year," made me laugh after I saw it. What is so scary about it? The fact that there's little villages out there that are completely out of touch with reality? I've got some news for him: there's groups like that everywhere. I just thought that the movie was kind of a joke.