A Sincere Movie for Intelligent People

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2005)

As usual I stand nearly alone on the rocky promontory of unpopular opinion on this one - But I just watched The Village, and M. Night Shyamalan remains, in my estimation, a (expletive courteously deleted) genius.
It's **not** a horror movie, people. It's only even a 'mystery' incidentally.
But anyone who's ever experienced the sensation wanting to rediscover an innocence that isn't possible in the world as we know it - anyone who's ever dreamed taking themselves and those they love to a kind of self-created and safe reality that could exist only in a world of their own making, however simple and far-fetched and even childishly based on fairy tale and wish-fulfillment -
That's the kind of person who might 'get' this movie.
Not to mention someone who has an attention span of longer than 7.4 seconds - who has the intelligence to appreciate some truly fine moments of understated and sincere writing, and subtlety and nuance of acting -
Phillistines - all of you - Phillistines...