Does almost everyone miss the point?

Rating: Null/10 (4 August 2004)

It seems that most reviewers (the press and we amateurs) miss the sub-text of this worthwhile and engrossing film. (Spoilers coming): This -is- a monster movie. The monsters in question are the "Elders" of the Village, prohibiting the residents their freedom and an understanding of the world they actually inhabit. All of the people who live in the Village, save those controlling Elders, believe they are living in a world threatened by horrid forest-monsters, but it is the human monsters that actually threaten and control them. The Elders have kept everyone blind to the reality of life as it exists outside of the fence that corrals them in a Nature Preserve. That a blind girl has to venture to that world in order to get medicines only guarantees that the truth will never be revealed. She could not see the truth -- she can not reveal the truth. The Village is an allegory, a fantasy, a comment on control. Are we, as an audience, similarly controlled (by political and entertainment "Elders") so much that we can not see the full story in this movie? "The Village" deserves a cautious and careful re-viewing.