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Re: The Village: Hit or Miss?

I really liked this movie quite a bit, as I do all of M. Night Shymalan's movies. I really enjoy that he tells stories with unique plots, even if you're always expecting a "twist", and I like that his stories are always about something more than what you see on the surface. It's so easy to see the allegory in his movies because it's almost transparent, making it accessible to many people, but that doesn't hurt its effectiveness much.

The Village had more than one "twist", as far as I was concerned, and that also alleviated some of the expectation of a mind-blowing revelation, as it became apparent to me that it wasn't meant to be just like Signs or the Sixth Sense. The story built upon itself with a few false climaxes and such. It was very satisfying.

I really, really liked that it was a commentary on politics, something that I wouldn't have expected from Shyamalan. I wonder how many people understood those parallels, however. The few people I've talked with about the movie didn't quite understand the depth of the ending or the implications thereof, and they saw the movie differently when I explained it to them.
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