“The Village”
*spoiler alert for the The Village. Read at your own discretion.
I watched “The Village” last night. What do I think of it ? Quite ok … although it didn’t turn out quite to be what I expected the movie is all about. The movie’s got a horror taste, but wasn’t really a horror movie. Just like yourself kneading a pair of fake boobies. It felt soft and tender like real boobies … kinda good, but in fact, you’re actually kneading a bag of silicone. Something like that.
The storyline’s pretty simple. It’s about a group of people who got pissed with the society so much, that they have decided to move into a privately owned forest reserve (who owned by one of the rich member whose rich dad got murdered by some villains). They built a village deep inside the forest isolating themselves from civilization … and made up some fictional shit about monsters that lurks in the woods — all that to ensure their children doesn’t leave the village at all.
How ? Well, they have this borderline that separates the village and the woods. The imaginary monster (who’s name is - “Those we do not fuck or mess up with”) sort of made a truce with the villagers not to cross the border into either side, else, they will kill and rape all their livestock…. then turn the villagers into meatballs.
Cool eh ? That’s where the suspense is. The audiences are made to believe that the movie is all about these monsters, that lurks around in the woods to make villagers’ lives miserable. But then, as you’ve already known, it’s all made up by the old people inside the village - so, no monsters. But there are a few scenes where the alleged fake monster made it’s appearance - which was actually acted out by one of the elders themselves. (and the latter one by one of the insane dude).
How does the fake monster looked like ? I don’t know. There’s only one particular scene where the face of the fake monster was actually shown - and it actually was a wild boar mask with long fingernails. But then, seriously, I think it looked more like Splinter - you know, the giant mutant rat that taught the Ninja Turtles how to fight.
But then, interesting it may be, I still have some comments about the movie’s storyline :
- the village was started out by a group of like .. a dozen people. But inside the village, the population was like 50 - 100 (estimated). Does that mean, the elders are fucking each other and reproduce like a bunch of horny rabbits ?
- wouldn’t it be much easier to install a high voltage electric fence around the village to make sure that their children doesn’t loiter beyond the woods (instead of making up the monster stories) ?
- ok, since the owner of the park is so rich, he can actually hire a few Banglas to full time act as those monsters … instead of acting out the monsters themselves, right ? The Banglas need no mask nor any long fingernails. Their face are scary enough … and their odor alone could cause hazard.
A lot of open ends … Definitely a disappointment to those who expected it to be a scary movie.