An Honest Review

Rating: 10/10 (10 December 2016)

The hate again is geared to the fact that it is a Shyamalan movie and it's hip to hate on him now.
It always seems to be that way, shocking how many people hate on things because it's hip and not really because of any honestly valid reason: "It sucks because, because, it's a Shyamalan movie and we all think he's self-important." The fact is that, yet again, he gave people something new...and they despise him for it.
But not only that it is a great allegory for 2004. Terror threats were common back then. We were told to live in fear. Today is an orange day, be scared. Today is a red day, be terrified. And nothing ever came of it, but a frightened population is a controlled population. It's a population that doesn't explore or ask many questions.
The Village does a great job of expressing that. A society controlled through fear and fear used to hide an enormous secret, to cover up a big lie with another lie.
But again, in typical Shyamalan fashion, it is a subtle parallel. It's one that doesn't stand out in the glaring fashion that you'd see in any other political movie.
And, again, it is original, but because of that, like all his other movies that broke away from the re-boot, re-made, re-hashed style of Hollywood, he got labeled and people hate him for being unique and having the courage to make his own stories come to life.