This film revolves around the life of a small Pennsylvanian village where people live with the fear of unknown creatures, usually referred to as “those we don’t speak of” in the surrounding woods. The film explains how the villagers do not enter the woods so that the creatures from the woods can be kept from entering their village.
However, after a seven-year old boy dies, Lucius Hunt seeks permission from the village elders to walk through the woods and get medical supplies from the town. Not only is his request denied, his mother Alice reprimands him too for wanting to go to “wicked places where wicked people live”. Hunt ventures into the woods anyway and the creatures leave behind warnings on the doors of all the villagers. In the meanwhile, Ivy Walker, the blind daughter of a village elder expresses her love for Hunt and they are arranged to be married. But, when a spurned lover of Walker’s stabs Hunt, Walker’s father Edward goes against the wish of the village elders and allows his daughter to walk through the forest in order to get medication for Lucius.
Ivy finds her way through the woods and reaches an ivy-covered wall, after climbing which she meets with a park ranger who is seen driving around in a Land Rover for the Walker Wildlife Preserve. When the ranger finds out Walker’s name, it is revealed that the village was actually founded in 1970 when Edward, a professor of American History urged other people he met at a grief-counseling clinic to create a secluded village in the middle of a wildlife preserve, bought with his family fortune. To make sure the villagers are protected, Edward pays to maintain rangers who ensure no animals are disturbed and the villagers are safe.
After Walker returns to the village with her supplies, she discovers that every elder has his or her own secret black box that contains memories from their past lives in the world outside, including memorabilia of their traumas. All the elders agree to continue staying in the village and promise to maintain their story about “those we don’t speak of”.
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The Village (2004) The Village is a 2004 American psychological thriller film, written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan about an end-of-the-19th-century village whose inhabitants live in fear of creatures inhabiting the woods beyond it. |
