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August 15, 2004
Movie Review
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The Village [2004] [Eng]
Cast
Bryce Dallas Howard .... Ivy Walker
Joaquin Phoenix .... Lucius Hunt
Adrien Brody .... Noah Percy
William Hurt .... Edward Walker
Sigourney Weaver .... Alice Hunt
Brendan Gleeson .... August Nicholson
Cherry Jones .... Mrs. Clack
Celia Weston .... Vivian Percy
John Christopher Jones .... Robert Percy
Frank Collison .... Victor
Jayne Atkinson .... Tabitha Walker
Judy Greer .... Kitty Walker
Fran Kranz .... Christop Crane
Michael Pitt .... Finton Coin
Jesse Eisenberg .... Jamison
Comments
I just watched this movie half an hour ago and I felt it would be great injustice if I didn't write about it as soon as I reached home.
It's true; there are twists in this movie, as in the tradition of all M Night Shyamalan's movies, from Sixth Sense until this present movie. But the twist (or twists) in this movie does not encompass the plot of this movie, it is part of it but not the whole of it. Whilst you could say this movie is actually a love story(and a very romantic one if you ask me), you can also say it's a suspense movie, a movie about faith/hope (a recurring theme in all Night's movies) or simply a movie about choices and ironies. I have never been able to use one word to describe his movies, except maybe the word brilliant. Many may be disappointed with the ending, I for one was thrilled with its rather interesting concept, the idea behind the idea. But first the story.
I am sure you must have read that this movie is set in an idyllic village in a time very far far back involving a small group of villagers living in an isolated place surrounded by forests. The village elders warned their younger counterparts that one must never cross and go into the forest because some evil creatures stay there. That is why they have guard towers, rules of not wearing bright colours and all so as not to attract attention. They live in constant fear but has been safe so far. Noah, a retarded young man frequently goes in and out of the forest, but no danger ever befallen him which is why Lucius, a young man wants to venture into town to buy medicine when a young boy died of an illness which could have been prevented. THe elders were not very encouraging. Then the creatures began to go into the village, scaring everybody and of course something really bad happened and the young blind girl named Ivy pleaded with her father so that she can leave the village, go to town to buy medicine. From thereon we know little by little about the village and its reasons for its existence.
When half way through this movie, you will know the truth about the creatures. They're really not the so called twist in this movie. Which is why most reviewers will say you will know the hint of the ending half way through. Maybe I am slow in all these hints because I didn't know until Night revealed it towards the end, and then it all made sense. Why would a loving father allow his BLIND daughter to venture into the woods alone? If he is so loving how he could have allowed such a potentially dangerous expedition to take place and more so when his daughter is also quite helpless? You will know why. But the answer goes beyond this simple question.
As I looked back into what I was presented with in this movie, I realised there is an irony in this movie. The elders, all able bodied and healthy men with good eyesight and limbs rather stay back and watch Lucius die than to venture out to the town because they fear the outside world and yet, Ivy, a girl, blind and alone who has never in her life ventured beyond the woods did it all by herself guided by her love for Lucius. Then there's the fact that Ivy's father, Edward who refuses to touch Lucius' mother because he was too in love with her to destroy the perfect world he had created in the village when if in the real world outside the village, he would have divorced his wife and married this woman he loved. One father in the first scene wept on his young son's coffin who died of illness and yet in restrospect, you will feel angry with this father who actually sacrificed so much, even his own son's life to continue to live in a lie. The entire village is founded on lies and deception. The elders turned their backs on the world which they deemed to evil, too cruel to live in and to raise their child came to this place to rebuild their lives which is essentially based on more lies and more deceptions. They're so fearful of the real world that they refused to venture out and yet in their own village a senseless crime was committed. And to have Ivy to travel through all hardships to encounter a kind hearted person who helped her without question is in itself an ironic ending to the concept that the village is all about. Perhaps the elders should have more faith in the world they see, that no matter where they go and hide from the world, sorrow and senseless crimes exist, so do kindness and understanding. It's a matter of oneself, not really the world.
I like the ending, though I hated the fact of the ending. The young ones were never given a chance to decide for themselves and in a way I have little respect for the so called elders who live in their own fears.
This is the sense that I got from this movie. The beauty of Night's movies are that every person may see the story differently. There is no one right answer, he gives you the concept, he gives you the idea, he even gives you the ending with all the twists but in the end you have to decide for yourself how you see the movie. He ingeniously builds the tense and suspense type of atmosphere, playing on our fears of the unknown, he makes the village look idyllic and yet dreary, almost colourless and his direction, though slow but a good story takes time to flesh out. I think above all else, M Night Shyamalan is a master storyteller. This movie solidifies this fact.
The acting in here may appear unconvincing sometimes where one particular actress was over promoted in what is essentially a ke-le-fe role, the dialogue a bit weird (in restrospect I understood why) and some actors were underused. But in the end it's the story that matters. Whilst I still find Signs his best movie todate, I find The Village profoundly deep. I can't help but wonder would I have turned my back on the world as the elders in this movie did? Would I have been so drastic and to deny my child the right to know the truth? Like the scene where Ivy met the kind stranger who helped her, perhaps we should have a bit of faith in our world.
Rating
A profoundly deep movie that requires 100% of your attention. And an excellent movie. Forget about the twist, watch it for the love story, watch it for Bryce Dallas Howard and Joaquin Pheonix who both gave excellent performances and watch it for Night's skillful and master storytelling technique. For all these I am ready to give this movie the perfect rating of  .
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