My view

Rating: Null/10 (2 August 2004)

I loved the Village and thought it took M. Night Shyalaman to a whole new level. I'll give you the marketing was bad and prepared you for an entire different movie, but generally that is not the directors fault. I believe in order to get the whole frightening issue you had to put yourself in Ivy's shoes. My god the girl was blind! If you were stumbling around in the woods which you had grown up thinking deadly monsters dwelt you would be scared! I think Night challenged us to use our imagination to experience just what Ivy was experiencing. Movies are getting to be much the same. Especially the horror movies. All you see are hapless teenagers or young adults running around screaming with some murderer or doll chasing after them, eventually killing them to the delight of the audience. For some reason most people tend to like blood and gore. But it is no reason to condemn a movie just for it's lack of it. Night is trying to almost create his own genre, and I commend him for it. I am sick of all this never ending violence. Plus his movies have morals, which today's cinema is seriously lacking. Our entertainment standers are plummeting and I thank God we have some one like Night making movies that raise our expectations and make us think.