So, the village is composed only of the elders and their offspring? (spoiler)

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2004)

Don't read this if you haven't seen the movie yet.) First of all I want to say that I enjoyed the movie very much. It was worth it even though I had some suspicions of the twists, it still was very well done. I love how M. Knight's movies make you go back and reflect over everything that happened once the twists are revealed. I also like how this move makes me ponder if the creation of a society like this is actually plausible. However, in doing this, i've become stuck on one point: Is the village only made up of the elders and their children/grandchildren? Didn't the population seem a bit large if that was the case? And if, in fact the village is composed only of the elders and their offspring, I don't think it would take very many generations before relationships started to become incestuous. I didn't use a mathematical formula or anything, but I did draw myself a little diagram. Try it. You'll see that it doesn't take long before everyone starts to be related, unless they used very careful planning and began to arrange marriages. Even then, eventually everyone would at least become distant relatives. Soon you would have a bunch of inbred village idiots running around in monster suits. Hmmm... that might make an interesting sequel. Teen agers from the outside world start urban legends about the creatures in the wildlife reserve (kind of like the melon heads) and they would dare each other to climb the wall... OK I'm getting carried away. Maybe there were more elders they didn't show. Maybe that initial group of people got some of their friends to come along and join them. Maybe they put an ad in the paper- " WANTED: SW M/F, non-violent, to take part in secret experimental 19th century society. Fertile (attractive)child-bearing age women encouraged to apply." I don't know- am I missing something?