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Rating: 1/10 (5 March 2017)

Daniel Yu March 5, 2017 The Village
With great expectations for my film class, our class started the semester by watching a film called The Village by M. Night Shyamalan. This film started out in suspense, just like how thrillers are supposed to start. The setting seemed like it is set somewhere around the 1700s. The movie starts out with people having worried facial expressions and a sort unpleasant atmosphere. To even further keep the audience on an awkward mood, there is also a failed proposal to one of the characters. With all this happening, we later found out that the village is under constant pressure from a creature that attacks the village. Because of this, people don't leave the village even in an emergency. However, when one of the characters needed medication from an injury, the main character goes in an adventure to through the wood to find the medicine.
This film is not one of those "action-packed" film that modern people find these days. It is a slow-paced movie with a rich story line. There are many times when we must think for ourselves to understand what is happening. Therefore, this is a film for higher class thinkers.
Personally, I did not appreciate this movie. There were way too many times when I thought nothing was happening and the story line was not moving forward. I also thought that the setting that was set during 1700s didn't interest me. However, the thing that bugged me the most was the major conflict and the solution of this film. I personally thought that the major conflict of this film is not very important and came out of nowhere. The conflict happened in the middle of the film and came unexpected. There were no follow up or any sort of clue that the conflict was going to happen until it happened. Lastly, there was not a conclusion to the conflict; the movie ended in an abrupt manner.
Overall, I would recommend this film only to people that come to think. For viewers that want a straight forward story line, this would be one of the last film that I would recommend. This was a meaningful, but a not-so-interesting film.