The Village
July 16th, 2005
by William K. Coe
Theme:
Small societies do whatever it takes to ensure their society remains “safe” from the assumed very bad world outside of them. Frankly, what small-town hick crap I and just about anyone else in suburbia or rural America had to put up with all of our lives. Tim Burton would have made this scary.
The Deal:
A small fashion chooses to hide from contemporary society by living in the 18th century. Villiagers are sheltered within this small-knit, small-minded community through viklluage stories about creatures that walk the woods, or as known “Those We Don’t Speak of” (notice the hanging preposition). Of course, it’s revealed in that so-familiar M. Night ending twist that the elderly members of the community, called “the elders” made up this story to provide a safe haven from civilization because of tragic events bestowed upon them. And they guard it by dressing in animal fur and red hood. No one must enter the woods, no one must show the color red, the bad color, or “color they don’t speak of”. Frankly, a boring overused story regarding white people running away from the city regarding its “dangers” and living by an honor code that one musn’t break… or else. (The Beach, Edward Scissorhands, need I go on). Sure, it had its frightening usual “make-you-jump” movements, but don’t adult films… just in a different way.) and horrible, old-fashioned romantic and cult-like drama really makes me appreciate “The Blair Witch Project” for what it is.
This movie presents a lot of symbolism, which I will explain:
Color Red: Uh, what M. Night is known: something terrifying is about to happen. Red also symbolizes fear and power, two deadly components used once in this movie.
Empty Rocking Chair: The emptiness of the souls of the villiagers, having no real life and all. It’s also a symbol of surrender, giving up on the world and “rock it away”, as is a believed of many retired elderly persons.
Color Yellow: Cowardliness, of course. No one but one person sanely dares to face the challenge of crossing the woods. Note that these people are like children – they depend on their leaders for everything and to tell them everything. And that when they do ask, no creature is in sight, yet when they don’t ask, a “creature” suddenly appears…
The Blind Girl: Perfect representation as to how blind this villiage society really is to the real world. “Oh hey, we just experienced reality. So let’s just run and hide, blind ourselves from the real reality”. However, she was more brave than the others and took the walk and returned safely.
Noah: The icon for the villiagers insanity. If you keep yourself locked up and shelterd forever, you’ll gonna go crazy! Given their situation, he was actually the ONLY normal person among the villiage… Look at Ed Gein, the notorious American Wisconsin serial killer pig farmer who killed women, ate them, had sex with their parts, all in any random order he chose, much because his mother told him sex was a sin. God, I love America!
The Red Lined Markings: A meaning that the villiages are a one connected string. Break a line, and you have two lines, and in this community, that’s not good.
The Newspaper Article “7-Year Old Body Found”: Not a symbol, but note how in the beginning the young 7 year old boy (1897 death – 1890 born = 7) dided, and his tombstone read (1897 death and 1890 born? This helps to thin the plot for what we already know. And M. Night himself appearing with the paper is him saying “Ha ha. Fooled ya!”
Hoods: Their colors showed a difference between the humans and creatures, much like how uniforms in war differ the good guy from the bad guy.
Pig Furs: Well because pigs are what the villiagers are! They live off of another, depend solely on another, and while they dislike reality, or “the towns”. They depend on them for their medicines and supplies as well.
My Final Ramblings:
M. Night, you should have just stuck with continued marketing of the Sixth Sense. Your constant use of inputting a twisted ending has bored me more than anything else. And where was the twist in Signs? Was the fact it had no twist, the twist? Personally, I think I’ll buy this video about 10 years from now in a flea market for $0.99 when VHS are just three letters, and when I’m really sick with diarrhea. Although, if asked what one positive thing I would say about this movie, it would have to be: “Those jumpy parts were so scary I wanted to laugh – I just didn’t because I didn’t want to become the one to be jumped.”
Small societies do whatever it takes to ensure their society remains “safe” from the assumed very bad world outside of them. Frankly, what small-town hick crap I and just about anyone else in suburbia or rural America had to put up with all of our lives. Tim Burton would have made this scary.
The Deal:
A small fashion chooses to hide from contemporary society by living in the 18th century. Villiagers are sheltered within this small-knit, small-minded community through viklluage stories about creatures that walk the woods, or as known “Those We Don’t Speak of” (notice the hanging preposition). Of course, it’s revealed in that so-familiar M. Night ending twist that the elderly members of the community, called “the elders” made up this story to provide a safe haven from civilization because of tragic events bestowed upon them. And they guard it by dressing in animal fur and red hood. No one must enter the woods, no one must show the color red, the bad color, or “color they don’t speak of”. Frankly, a boring overused story regarding white people running away from the city regarding its “dangers” and living by an honor code that one musn’t break… or else. (The Beach, Edward Scissorhands, need I go on). Sure, it had its frightening usual “make-you-jump” movements, but don’t adult films… just in a different way.) and horrible, old-fashioned romantic and cult-like drama really makes me appreciate “The Blair Witch Project” for what it is.
This movie presents a lot of symbolism, which I will explain:
Color Red: Uh, what M. Night is known: something terrifying is about to happen. Red also symbolizes fear and power, two deadly components used once in this movie.
Empty Rocking Chair: The emptiness of the souls of the villiagers, having no real life and all. It’s also a symbol of surrender, giving up on the world and “rock it away”, as is a believed of many retired elderly persons.
Color Yellow: Cowardliness, of course. No one but one person sanely dares to face the challenge of crossing the woods. Note that these people are like children – they depend on their leaders for everything and to tell them everything. And that when they do ask, no creature is in sight, yet when they don’t ask, a “creature” suddenly appears…
The Blind Girl: Perfect representation as to how blind this villiage society really is to the real world. “Oh hey, we just experienced reality. So let’s just run and hide, blind ourselves from the real reality”. However, she was more brave than the others and took the walk and returned safely.
Noah: The icon for the villiagers insanity. If you keep yourself locked up and shelterd forever, you’ll gonna go crazy! Given their situation, he was actually the ONLY normal person among the villiage… Look at Ed Gein, the notorious American Wisconsin serial killer pig farmer who killed women, ate them, had sex with their parts, all in any random order he chose, much because his mother told him sex was a sin. God, I love America!
The Red Lined Markings: A meaning that the villiages are a one connected string. Break a line, and you have two lines, and in this community, that’s not good.
The Newspaper Article “7-Year Old Body Found”: Not a symbol, but note how in the beginning the young 7 year old boy (1897 death – 1890 born = 7) dided, and his tombstone read (1897 death and 1890 born? This helps to thin the plot for what we already know. And M. Night himself appearing with the paper is him saying “Ha ha. Fooled ya!”
Hoods: Their colors showed a difference between the humans and creatures, much like how uniforms in war differ the good guy from the bad guy.
Pig Furs: Well because pigs are what the villiagers are! They live off of another, depend solely on another, and while they dislike reality, or “the towns”. They depend on them for their medicines and supplies as well.
My Final Ramblings:
M. Night, you should have just stuck with continued marketing of the Sixth Sense. Your constant use of inputting a twisted ending has bored me more than anything else. And where was the twist in Signs? Was the fact it had no twist, the twist? Personally, I think I’ll buy this video about 10 years from now in a flea market for $0.99 when VHS are just three letters, and when I’m really sick with diarrhea. Although, if asked what one positive thing I would say about this movie, it would have to be: “Those jumpy parts were so scary I wanted to laugh – I just didn’t because I didn’t want to become the one to be jumped.”
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