The Gravestone??

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2004)

CONTAINS SPOILER Saw THE VILLAGE yesterday & personally liked it a lot. In trying to analyze the film I find myself wondering about that gravestone in the beginning to the movie. Does any one recall the dates on the tombstone of the boy who died in the very beginning of the film. I just didn't catch it and I can't help but wonder if I had "caught it" how would it affected the way I went further into the movie??? Without unwittingly giving any *Spoilers here, the "dates" on the gravestone, had I noticed them...........just might have swayed me in an either or direction for the plot of the movie. Any one on here take notice of those dates and if so, did it matter to you with the rest of the movie and the ongoing plot?