Great Film, Overlooked by starved fans and critics. (SPOILERS. only read if you have seen the film)

Rating: 9/10 (17 February 2005)

Basically the fans and critics are not taking the correct viewpoint on this film. M. Night Shyamalan is one of my favorite directors and always will be. I think that this film is one of his best, mainly because of its content. Now, for fans of the film Signs, this film may be disappointing, mainly because it IS NOT A SCARY MOVIE. Nor was it intended to be. This film was a romance. This should not have to be explained, and if you didn't notice it, then you should retract our original statement about this film. The story is purely that, a romance. There are two more themes in the film which should not be overlooked. First, the preservation of innocence. The elders of the village were trying to protect the innocence of their offspring, that was their excuse for taking them to the woods. The Seconed, the idea that the elders had of not taking any evil with them. Their flaw was the village "fool" Noah. He was infatuated with the idea of violent creatures in the woods, and this was the root that poisoned the village. Basically, I would have to call all critics that rated this film as a poor effort, extremely pig-headed and inexperienced in reviewing movies. I am a film student, and i would highly recommend this film to any students or teachers to teach and/or study this film for story lessons, and beautiful directing. So overall i give this film 9 out of 10 and i consider it one of the greater films of Shyamalan's library.