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I just watched The Village on dvd last night for the first time. I am completely confused at the ending :confused: . Just wondering if someone could explain it to me. I am not sure what the Walker Wildlife Reserve had to do with The Village. Hope someone can help explain it to me. Thanks.
 
The Village was situated in the wooRAB next to the Wildlife Park. The Village had nothing to do with the Wildlife Park, except that the village elders wanted to keep themselves and their families excluded away from the pains of the 'real world' and so invented an entire back story that meant no-one could leave the village. The Wildlife Park section of the film just showed to the viewers that it was really the present day, and not the 19th century, another lie the village elders had concocted.
 
the answer starts life in the hidden box, in the photo were the elders who lived our modern lifestyle but thought that life and there world was to brutal. they moved to a deserted field surrounded by trees to hide there evil world. years pass and there hidden area gets turned into a pretend nature plot. false the goverment know and protect them stoppping planes from flying above. i guess the goverment also agree in preserving an innocent exsistance. but theres no running away even through a loving inocent village evil lurks. theres no running away. as this helped. philosphy film deep.
 
walker was the name of the guy who had the blind daughter - i interpreted it that he was a multi-millionaire who met the other people who had suffered tragedies at the support group and he had spent the money to create "the village" for them to live and raise a new tribe of people who were innocent and lived a simple life.

He sent the blind girl so she wouldn't fully understand what was going on and realise they were living in an fake environment.
 
i downloaded the film, before it was released, and i thought it was shit......... so i deleted it.... i loved it up until the part where.......................

the monsters are not real and it is all a big fake scam!!!

boooooo to the director, SHIT film!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
What mike_avfc explained is correct Walker (Willian Hurt) is
the person who created 'the village' (thus the "Walker Reserve" on the patrol jeep) in order to escape the brutal/violent/paranoid reality of modern day life.
There was a line where he explains to his daughter that her grandfather was exceptionally rich. Pictures in the box show that the elders are from & met in some sort of trauma group for those who have lost relations or loved ones
The elders thus decided to create an alternative life in the reserve with the help of Walkers money but the second/third generations get curious and the elders have difficulty living with the knowledge that there is a modern day life out there that could make life better in the village (eg medicines to cure the sick)

I've also watched films when my brain has not been engaged and thus thought it was rubbish
 
I thought it was rubbish. The twist was kinda obvious from the start too because you saw the date on the gravestone covered up.
It was marketted badly too to make people think it was a horror film.
 
It comes under the catergory of 'Stand up and kick the screen in at the end, in the vain hope that the director may feel some pain that will shorten his life by the same amount that he has shortened yours' films.

Poor, poor, poor.
 
Yes, I did watch it. :o But my sister-in-law kept talking through it and then ended up talking to her 3 year old on her mobile. So I guess I must have missed those clues while she was talking. :eek: Thanks to those who have explained the bits I missed. :)
 
As I said, I did WATCH it, but I couldn't hear as my sister-in-law kept talking!! I am sorry I asked what happened now. I didn't think people would mind telling me. I had figured that Walker had created this fake village etc... I just wanted to be sure that I was right. :(
 
It was a horror film? I felt many moments of horror throughout, as well as tension. First time you see what those things that live in the village look like, sh*t me up.
 
When the guy was in the watch tower I freake dme out, but the minute you saw them in full it was a similar feeling to seeing the creature in Jeepers Creepers. Shitty.

I guessed the twist halfway through. and I have no idea how- i just knew.
 
Send the blind girl? The blind girl has to go?? :rolleyes:

The guys a crook (Shyamalan, or whatever ;) ), as he's defrauded so many people into thinking he's a good director, when he just uses lots of twists to cover for his inability to come up with a good script, direction, or even idea.

Unbreakable is the only film approaching a decent level (I see dead people? F**k off!), and his reputation is based solely on twists that on occassion make no sense, and on more occassions are so see thorugh, it makes the last 'act' of his films irrelevant.
 
Don't worry about it, you get some people on here that think they are better than you just because they 'got' the film and you didn't so they proceed to put you down. It makes the forums a worse place.

I personally thought it was a good film but didn't understand why the park rangers knew about the village, glad it's been cleared up now.
 
I think it's basically cos they guy had a lot of money. Very implausible though.

Did anyone else get the impression the film was going to be led by Joaquin Phoenix? Though he was ruled out half way through and you never saw him again! :p

Shade. :)
 
i personally loved it !

you're right to say phoenix was going to lead then ducked out towarRAB the end. i thought that made it great.

The tension substituted for the horror and there were bits in the forest that made the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.

If his next one is anything like as much suspense then i'm 1st in line to see it
 
I loved the film, but I can understand some of the confusion and dissapointment felt by some viewers. I feel that the problem is that people equate Shyamalan to movies that have a great surprise twist...
Although The Village has a twist in it's tale, I felt that (unlike his other work) this movie was not about being led to that dramatic realisation. It was more about the relationships between the characters, and thier story. The twist was of less importance.
 
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