Not So Bad as everyone seems to think

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2004)

All and all I think this movie is getting a bad rap. True the dialog is difficult for most people and the pace is slow. However I found this to be fairly authentic for the premise of a 19th century village. It is to bad that people don't want to listen carefully.
All and all the biggest critics are complaining because the monster/beasts are not "real". Well, look a bit deeper and I think you will find that they are INDEED real.
Looking at this from a my perspective I see the leaders of the village controlling the populace through FEAR deliberately manufacture for the purpose of controlling the populace. hmmm sounds a bit familiar doesn't it.
Despite Walkers speech at the end about doing what is right and protecting innocents etc, the fact that they have chosen to allow young children to die which may have been prevented with simple medicine, and allowed an OBVIOUSLY seriously mentally ill young manner to suffer without treatment and instead chose to lock him in a quiet room as a substitute for treatment to be truly horrible and beastly. While their motives were undoubtable pure, there actions were unmistakable inhumane. And there lies the true horror good people trying to do right and in their extreme actions to protect themselves their families and their chosen way of life they bring about terrible tragedy resulting in a horrible death. Their attempts to control through fear and to subject others to their fantastic view on what life should be like bring about horror. In my perspective....a very thought provoking movie.