This may be a spoiler if you have not watched the movie, and this certainly is not a movie revue, and is not intended to be.

What I'm asking is:

1. If you were brought up in a town like that shown in The Village, and knew no different, how would you behave?

2. Would you live peacefully?

3. Would you wonder into the forest to meet the people that "we don't speak of"?

4. Would you defy authority and find your own answers?

5. Would you make the most of your life in The Village and be satisfied with your life?

6. Would you marry someone in The Village and have children without experiencing life somewhere else or with other people?

7. If you knew the truth would you stay there?

8. Would you tell your parents and all your friends to 'get fucked' if it involved exploring the world outside The Village.

Feel free to answer the above in more detail, offer some opinions, and answer less than all questions if you like, a discussion is better than short answers.

If you watched The Village expecting a thriller or an action movie you may have been disappointed, but when you think about the message, its truly powerful.

It really makes us ask questions of our own life and whether we are satisfied to live the life we think we should live, or whether we question EVERYTHING, and push the boundaries, and whether we experience life outside of our "Village", so as to speak.

If you haven't seen The Village, I suggest you hire it out and answer this quiz and look at what Village you live in.

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This movie sucked, I only watched it because my parents made the mistake of renting it from Blockbuster and had nothing else to do that night. It takes alot for me to not enjoy a movie, but this one had all of the elements.

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My view was the whole scenario was kinda fucked up. Where were the guns? Folks living back in those conditions normally had some weapons of some sort. I never even saw them attempt to defend themselves with a scythe, axe, or sledge even if they had no guns. What a cowardly world. It's understandable, since the fear was only self-inflicted in the first place, but even the retard seemed to be able to use a knife.


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Originally posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 This movie sucked, I only watched it because my parents made the mistake of renting it from Blockbuster and had nothing else to do that night. It takes alot for me to not enjoy a movie, but this one had all of the elements.

For a moment ditch the idea that we are talking about the movie, because talking about the message in the movie is different.

There have been few movies with such powerful messages, even if it came accross badly and was not entertaining.

But, for a moment, seriously, imagine you were a kid brought up in the village, and knew no other life, and knew no different to live living in an isolated town with no-one allowed to leave. Then answer the questions and see what Village you live in, because everybody does to a point.

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Originally posted by smokeape My view was the whole scenario was kinda fucked up. Where were the guns? Folks living back in those conditions normally had some weapons of some sort. I never even saw them attempt to defend themselves with a scythe, axe, or sledge even if they had no guns. What a cowardly world. It's understandable, since the fear was only self-inflicted in the first place, but even the retard seemed to be able to use a knife. [[[smoke]]]

Yep, true, but for a kid that was born in that town, they wouldn't know what guns were...

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well i have an overwhelming curiosity factor when it comes to mysteries... i generally won't do anything about the mystery but i'd try to find out as much information as possible about it... this would ultimately get me killed

so yeah - i'd die

I don't watch films (any, at all) so I'm not sure I understand the question, but knowing me, I would probably lay low if life was good enough, you know, no hardships or anything, if I could get on with my life there fine, I have no desire to explore or meet excessive amounts of people. I'm not sure how the people lived in this film though?

There are tons of examples of "isolated" places and people. There are those who have never saw a colored person, there are those who never saw snow before. Amish people don't use electricity, nuns don't have sex.

I'm not really seeing a point here.

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Well living in THAT Village I would probably shag all the chicks, and when they have kids, I'd start my own football team, curiosity would also get the best of me, and I'd be killed.

As for the Village I live in now, nobody does anything but watch TV, and the nightlife is crap most the time, maybe I should look into starting a football team here.

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Originally posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 There are tons of examples of "isolated" places and people. There are those who have never saw a colored person, there are those who never saw snow before. Amish people don't use electricity, nuns don't have sex. I'm not really seeing a point here.

The point is that we all live our lives in a Village to some point, even if it is only a mental Village.

Sure we may not be living in an isolated community in the middle of no where, or be trapped with no contact with the outside world, but the message in The Village is a large part more powerful than that simple translation.

Just as the children in The Village are brought up with a set of ideals, and understanding of the world, and they could either choose to live in harmony and accept what is that world, or they can question and experience life for themselves. They can do the stuff they were told by their parents and major influences not to do.

A person's personal Village may be the religion their parents brought them up in, it may be the type of live they are expected to live, it may be the things we are taught to stay away from or that are bad, it covers lots of things.

Why The Village is so powerful is that if you went along with the story, we could be living our lives so far detached from reality and missing out on so many things just because we are scared to question and experience life for ourselves and do teh stuff we have been told not to do. Those kids in the movie really did think that those creatures existed, and why wouldn't they? We can also think our biggest fears are real, when in reality they are not.

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Originally posted by -=M=- well i have an overwhelming curiosity factor when it comes to mysteries... i generally won't do anything about the mystery but i'd try to find out as much information as possible about it... this would ultimately get me killed so yeah - i'd die

Well, in line with the movie you wouldn't be killed you'd get to experience the real world, and lots of stuff that you didn't even know existed.

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The movie sucked big time