A great experience

Rating: 9/10 (7 January 2007)

I have just finished watching the Village for a second time and I found it to be a great experience. It is amazing what a good director can do with great actors: "This is all I can give you....." " I accept." When that brings tears to one's eyes something right is going on.
I still have some minor reservations with the first few minutes of the film. I had to let myself into this other world of religion/tradition/community. It is perhaps the costumes, etc. I must admit these are things I do not warm up to readily.
The performances, scenery, metaphors, imagery, development is all top notch. (Afrter the first 10-15 minutes of adjustment, like Shakespeare perhaps)
All in all I find this to be on par or above Sixth Sense and certainly equal to Unbreakable( Mel's politics ruined Signs for me).