raistlinflux
07-30-2004, 10:26 PM
The Village
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Here's my little review after seeing M. Nigh Shaymalan's movie The
Village. I tried to avoid any spoilers!
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A wonderful movie, but I doubt all will understand it. A breath of
fresh air in a world of overstuffed stereotypical holywood movies.
M. Night Shamaylan is begining to show his true potential.
A beautiful performance by the new actress Bryce Dallas Howard. I
simply loved her performance. She is so pure, so natural and with so
much talent. I will not be surprised at all if she wins an oscar for
such a performance.
The idea of the movie is old. The utopian society. Yet unlike other
utopian society, this one is the first one that can actually work. A
town chosen to live outside of the world, creatures lurking all
around, ... i won't say more as not to spoil it for you all.
The story is about fear first of all, and what can stem from it, how
we deal with it and how it is an inevitable part of life. But the
only thing you have to fear is indeed fear itself.
The story is about love. About how love can guide a blind person
through a dark wood and help them get back too. A story about hope,
which is born out of love. A story of innocence, but an innocence not
protected from the necessary pain of human life.
The movie though puts a new light on the concept of free will, which
I have not yet thought through. But you may want to think about it
since free will is what RA claims to be of outmost importance.
I'm sad however that so many people (the theatre was full), I
believe, haven't truly understood the essence. That being, that the
world is not an evil place and that we should hide away from it, and
deny it, but that it is possible to live a good, and pure life, but
without the exccess of hate, ignorance and violence in today's world.
The whole theatre found it silly when the words of I love you were
spoken. So many felt uncomfortable, like they knew better, and like
love is something uttered by some pathetic fools who don't know how
pathetic it all looks from the outside.
So many people laughed at the pitiful blind girl who was running on
the road. Her desperate and chaotic run seemed funny to them. But
they do not understand what it feels to be blind and run like that.
They cannot know what is on the inside when you're in that situation.
They laughed because they didn't understand; I didn't feel like
laughing because I knew I didn't understand!
Looking at the people as they left the theatre, I realized how blind
so many of them still are. How their blindness keeps them behind a
curtain, a curtain that will at some point in their existence have to
be pulled aside anyway.
If I didn't understand that everyone of us has a mission, and their
own path in life, I could not help but hate the lack of love. But I'm
glad I don't!
If any of you haven't seen the movie, and have read my thoughs on it,
I encourage you to do so, and try to see below the surface. There's
so much more.
A very good movie. And if anyone believes in the though that love is
all that matters in our three dimensional world. That love is what we
can truly understand here, as RA says, then by all means go and see
it for yourselves.
a wonderer on his way home,
love is all
Vlad
PS: if you go out and see it, let me know what you though of it
===========
------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's my little review after seeing M. Nigh Shaymalan's movie The
Village. I tried to avoid any spoilers!
------------------------------------------------------------------
A wonderful movie, but I doubt all will understand it. A breath of
fresh air in a world of overstuffed stereotypical holywood movies.
M. Night Shamaylan is begining to show his true potential.
A beautiful performance by the new actress Bryce Dallas Howard. I
simply loved her performance. She is so pure, so natural and with so
much talent. I will not be surprised at all if she wins an oscar for
such a performance.
The idea of the movie is old. The utopian society. Yet unlike other
utopian society, this one is the first one that can actually work. A
town chosen to live outside of the world, creatures lurking all
around, ... i won't say more as not to spoil it for you all.
The story is about fear first of all, and what can stem from it, how
we deal with it and how it is an inevitable part of life. But the
only thing you have to fear is indeed fear itself.
The story is about love. About how love can guide a blind person
through a dark wood and help them get back too. A story about hope,
which is born out of love. A story of innocence, but an innocence not
protected from the necessary pain of human life.
The movie though puts a new light on the concept of free will, which
I have not yet thought through. But you may want to think about it
since free will is what RA claims to be of outmost importance.
I'm sad however that so many people (the theatre was full), I
believe, haven't truly understood the essence. That being, that the
world is not an evil place and that we should hide away from it, and
deny it, but that it is possible to live a good, and pure life, but
without the exccess of hate, ignorance and violence in today's world.
The whole theatre found it silly when the words of I love you were
spoken. So many felt uncomfortable, like they knew better, and like
love is something uttered by some pathetic fools who don't know how
pathetic it all looks from the outside.
So many people laughed at the pitiful blind girl who was running on
the road. Her desperate and chaotic run seemed funny to them. But
they do not understand what it feels to be blind and run like that.
They cannot know what is on the inside when you're in that situation.
They laughed because they didn't understand; I didn't feel like
laughing because I knew I didn't understand!
Looking at the people as they left the theatre, I realized how blind
so many of them still are. How their blindness keeps them behind a
curtain, a curtain that will at some point in their existence have to
be pulled aside anyway.
If I didn't understand that everyone of us has a mission, and their
own path in life, I could not help but hate the lack of love. But I'm
glad I don't!
If any of you haven't seen the movie, and have read my thoughs on it,
I encourage you to do so, and try to see below the surface. There's
so much more.
A very good movie. And if anyone believes in the though that love is
all that matters in our three dimensional world. That love is what we
can truly understand here, as RA says, then by all means go and see
it for yourselves.
a wonderer on his way home,
love is all
Vlad
PS: if you go out and see it, let me know what you though of it