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kryptonitemonkey) wrote2004-08-06 08:38 pm
kryptonitemonkey) wrote2004-08-06 08:38 pm
The Village
I liked it.
As with a lot of M. Knight's movies, there is always a bit unexplained in the end, and a little confusion as well. I tend to go into his movies to simply watch them, with the occasional odd connection coming to mind. I have to see that I hadn't a clue to the ending that came, that the monsters were fake. I had an inkling that perhaps the towns would be a bit more advanced, although the present was not what I had expected, although I wasn't really surprised by it. I always have the habit of being caught off guard, but in such a way that it seems completely natural.
Frankly, there was a lot that happened in the movie that I didn't see coming, but that was partly because I kept making my own connections to things, and mine I like a lot better than how things actually turned out. I thought the ending a tad disappointing really. Perhaps it is simply because I've played a few too many rpgs and read a few too many fantasies, but I had some wicked cool ideas that I think would have made the movie something spectacular to me. Such as the whole monster and color of death thing. Something like 20 minutes in, I thought, wouldn't it be cool if the forest and the monsters were something like a living analogy to death where those monsters are people after they die. I mean, with the whole death fixation that all the older people seemed to have, plus the danger of red, it occured to me that it would be interesting if it was death they feared, and that the woods represented inevitable death or something. I think that would have been a lot cooler.
Thinking on the whole thing, I've come to two conclusions. First, the girl who played Ivy is stunning, and second, I would have much prefered to have this movie to have been more real, to have something other than a big farce. I wanted it to be real, I suppose in the sense of fantasy. I mean sure, give me some big mystery, but have there be real monsters, have it be a different time (hell, even a post-apocolyptic type thing would be better), whatever, just not what it was. Otherwise, I liked the movie quite a bit.
And on a final note, I thought it was quite keen how Ivy could see certain people/ colors.
As with a lot of M. Knight's movies, there is always a bit unexplained in the end, and a little confusion as well. I tend to go into his movies to simply watch them, with the occasional odd connection coming to mind. I have to see that I hadn't a clue to the ending that came, that the monsters were fake. I had an inkling that perhaps the towns would be a bit more advanced, although the present was not what I had expected, although I wasn't really surprised by it. I always have the habit of being caught off guard, but in such a way that it seems completely natural.
Frankly, there was a lot that happened in the movie that I didn't see coming, but that was partly because I kept making my own connections to things, and mine I like a lot better than how things actually turned out. I thought the ending a tad disappointing really. Perhaps it is simply because I've played a few too many rpgs and read a few too many fantasies, but I had some wicked cool ideas that I think would have made the movie something spectacular to me. Such as the whole monster and color of death thing. Something like 20 minutes in, I thought, wouldn't it be cool if the forest and the monsters were something like a living analogy to death where those monsters are people after they die. I mean, with the whole death fixation that all the older people seemed to have, plus the danger of red, it occured to me that it would be interesting if it was death they feared, and that the woods represented inevitable death or something. I think that would have been a lot cooler.
Thinking on the whole thing, I've come to two conclusions. First, the girl who played Ivy is stunning, and second, I would have much prefered to have this movie to have been more real, to have something other than a big farce. I wanted it to be real, I suppose in the sense of fantasy. I mean sure, give me some big mystery, but have there be real monsters, have it be a different time (hell, even a post-apocolyptic type thing would be better), whatever, just not what it was. Otherwise, I liked the movie quite a bit.
And on a final note, I thought it was quite keen how Ivy could see certain people/ colors.