What is really going on *Spoiler*

Rating: Null/10 (30 July 2004)

I don't agree with all the 9/11 theories and ties to this movie. I think Night kept this very simple. The photograph in the lockbox gives away that a group of people from a counseling center founded "the village" on wildlife reserve property purchased by a billionaire. Each of the "elders" went through grief counseling in the 1970's or so, and each had a traumatic story from their past to tell. A university professor poses the idea to the rest (all of whom are grieving some loss) that it would be possible to escape society and its violence and live in a time when things were much more simple. Hence, the village is created. How can you attack a plot like this? Night, you are a genius.
However, I think it is not coincidence that Lucius is the fearless skeptic of the group. He is a baby in the picture outside the counseling center, meaning he moved to the community, whereas all other youngsters were first generation villagers. Perhaps experience in the real world was held in his infant sub-conscious which motivated him to challenge the village and its rules.
So what is the message? Violence is innate and inescapable?? So much for world peace.