Justsomeguy

I watched the Village again the other day. When I originally saw the movie in the theater, I considered it complete trash. However, after watching it again, I did see several interesting concepts in the movie.

First, it tackles a subject that is also addressed in the matrix. The people are living away from organized society. However, they think it is best to live their protected life than to venture out into the world. I really like this issue. Although I do not care to analyze movies in this way much anymore, it did strike me as interesting. I thought it was one of the few positives of the movie.

I also felt it was successful in examining life for a group of people constantly living under fear. It is something that I do not deal with and it is interesting to consider if life is worth living without current freedoms. I also liked the way that the "fake" world had a certain viewpoint of the "real" world that was completely contradicting of the people that did live in organized society. Finally, I thought it really could be directed towards everyone's life. How each of us are governed by the things that we would rather not know of or avoid and by the things that haunt our spirits.

Looking at these factors, I really think the movie had something good to offer.

Now, I can't say much for the movie itself. I did not care for the acting for one. So much about the movie felt fake. The one great moment of this movie was when the audience knows that the creatures are not real. However, when you see the one follow the girl in the forest, you are still on the edge of your seat from suspense. I just thought that was interesting because I knew exactly what was going to happen, but there was still alot of anxiety built up inside of me. Unlike other horror flicks, this part was more interesting because you doubt what the director has already revealed to you.

Overall, I did not really like the movie. However, I was just somewhat torn now because I felt it had some great topics. I think my original problem was that the trailers presented it practically as a horror movie. I half-expected a hack and slash movie and that definitely was not part of this film. Ultimately, the movie fell short on just delivery. It had interesting concepts, and I really hope someone can put together a movie with similar ideas but actually bring us a movie that is also just fun to watch without the ideas.

In my opinion, it's just disappointing that interesting and innovative ideas can end up in movies that fail in providing practical entertainment.