The Village is the most pleasant and smooth horror movie I have ever seen ......well horror ??? not exactly maybe its Genre is Drama, Thriller, Supernatural ...ooppps I am confused ...is it a new genre all-together like say timepass or didnt-have-anything-to-make-types.
In the pursuit of being the guy who could scare the shiit out of everybody ...M.Night Shyamalan has experimented far too much ....this film leaves him in an unenviable position.
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt, Jaoquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson, Judy Greer and Sigourney Weaver. Well the starcast and setting seem to be a success recipe but treatment spoilt it all. Academy Award nominees Sigourney Weaver and Joaquin Phoenix and Oscar winner William Hurt did their very best I swear.
Well I am sure that everybody like me and my friends would have thought of a different end .....a different story. I now seriously doubt the story writing capabilities of star director shyamalam. He’s a very talented director but usually a derivative author. ’’The Sixth Sense’’ had a more convoluted take on the conflict in ’’Jacob’s Ladder, ’’ and his ’’Signs’’ was an alloy of ’’Close Encounters’’ and ’’Night of the Living Dead, ’’ though both films created a measure of suspense. For so long he has enflamed the collective mind of his audience with impending surprises that this time around, you don’t partake in any kind of suspense, but simply wait for it to end so the surprise can be revealed, ’’our little share in some pop-culture currency, ’’ as a friend of mine put it.
The Village, The Story
The movie is about a village which is seperated from the city or town by a forest/ woods and those woods are where the creatures lived and their colour was Red. The villagers never use to encroach the territory of the people they didn’t talk about (means the creatures) and creatures never came down to the village. But our hero (actually the real hero is the actress but its ok to use ....) proposes to the village council to cross the woods to go to the town and collect medicines but couldn’t as he is stabbed by a Psycho who couldn’t digest that the heroine loved the hero... ;) Then our heroine (can be called the hero) does the brave act and brings the medicines just to find that our hero is dead ..... what the heck???
Final Word
This movie is a big time miscalculation on the part of its writer-director, M. Night Shyamalan. It sets up several staples of a horror film, and then undermines it all to make a simplistic commentary on the idea of a horror film instead. I would not recommend this film to anybody expecting a serious international thriller and shyamalam type movie.