The Village is about Love, and all that it implies

Rating: 9/10 (29 March 2005)

This is the second Shamylan film that I have seen. Just as Signs was about "Faith", his Village is about "Love."
This film shows many facets of Love, which includes forgiveness, honesty, joys, heartache, dreams, future hopes, protecting community and family, kindness, and miracles. Ivy's blindness lets us see the world in a different way, and draws us in to see her character, her courage, her family and her love, which is very appealing. Her father, who helped create the Village along with the elders, loves this community and does everything he can to protect his family and the community from outside contamination. The Elders, for all their good intentions, still meet life with sadness, as well as joy, in this Utopian community. Lucius, in contrast to Ivy, has a different kind of facet to love--protective love, fearless courage and quiet strength, he always wants to improve this community, even if it means bringing outside influences, which is forbidden in their village to do.
I truly enjoyed this film, and I hope to see more films from this writer-director. I love his visual style, intellectual and emotional pondering for his movies.