What is the meaning of M. Shyamalan's movie "The Village"?

Question

Is it "living a life in innocence is impossible"? Well, that's my opinion at present, having just seen it. Are there any meanings that may have escaped me? Something more official, maybe?

Would appreciate your response.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The clue is in the blind girl. The elders escaped the tormented vision of the real world and created a protected, endowed sanctuary of their OWN vision. But, as their children grew up, the elder's vision would hold only with violence (the red monster costumes to frighten the younger people from exploring beyond the established boundries). The mentally deranged boy represented the unnaturalness and morbid outcome of limited reality and forced "innocence" imposed upon people. Life, in its natural state of curiosity, exploration and chaotic change is Goodness. We cannot achieve good, healthy outcomes by imposing parameters or dogmatic, unchanging visions upon people, generation after generation without social and spiritual disease setting in. Life is about each one of us experiencing and expressing our own visions. And, how we survive all together with our myriad number of visions, is to adapt and bend a little (allowing the blind girl to break the rules to go get anti-biotics) and by LOVE, that love is true vision that allowed the girl to "see" her way to save her man's life. Ta da.

Answer 2

The Village Movie Analysis

Answer 3

They were teaching the kids in the village how money and riches can ruin you and they took it to a bit of an extreme, i guess .. its hard to explain but i absolutely loved that movie.. just a fantastic masterpiece, as are all of M. Shyamalans's work

Answer 4

I think you've nailed it... Evil will find you. You don't need to go looking for it. One of the basic emotions that causes people to act "evil" is jealousy... like you see in the movie... and maybe a little: every dark cloud has a silver lining? Good eventually triumphs... even if the town is a little jaded.

Answer 5

Think of that: You visit a village of native savages somewhere in the world where people run around naked and they eat raw flesh.
You persuade them to gather around you and from your pocket you pull out a lighter or matches. And you create fire out of nowhere.
Suddenly they worship you as God or eat you as Satan.
The meaning you received from the movie is correct.
The world is so corrupted nowadays that any pure thing is considered perversion.

Answer 6

Well it's what you see in it, as with any art. My thought is: harmony (peace, happines) through isolation is impossible, you have to accept your role as part of the world with all the pain and joy it brings. You can also see religious metaphors - the "true faith" is always based on lies and imaginary, artificial enemies. Buut again, I don't think he had any particular meaning in mind, it is what you see in it.

Answer 7

I like your question!
Well, I also saw that movie & feedback I had was that they were trying to live a "fair" life, a place where justic is served & everyone can sleep feeling safe at night .
& they still needed to get back to the "real world" to seek help, & though they were running away from reality for soo long, they still found someone in that side of life who was still had kindness in his heart to help them.
it means there is no perfect life, even if you hide from reality for soo long, you will still need to be a part of it to survive.

Answer 8

little red riding hood. think about it. she wore a raincoat with a hood, had red hair, was confronted by a wolf (or a man dressed as one). it all took place in the woods.

Answer 9

there is no meaning.........that guy is a moron and completely full of sh*t............

when i wanted to say something was really gay, i used to call it "liberace gay"...............now i call it "M. Night Shyamalan gay"

Answer 10

1 of the worst movies i ever saw u just wasted your time watching it