The+Village

The Village is a very ironic movie for the fact that the people there lived a sheltered life in the woods away from actual civilization. A bunch people at one point got together and decided to come up with their own civilization. They made sure that in their civilization, there wouldn't be murder/crime or no one wouldn't have to suffer like they did when they lost someone really close to them to murder/crime. Therefore, when they started a civilization, they made everyone in the village believe that there was a creature in the woods and so no one in the village would dare to set foot out to the other towns. When watching this movie, I picked three symbols that I thought were really important that represented the movie really good.

The first symbol would be the black box. The black box in the movie is to hide the elders secrets from the past so they dont reveil their past to other so they don't find out the truth. Now to me, the black box can relate to communism today. Like they try to get rid of things because they dont want it in their lives. In fact, the elders in the village use it to escape communism.

The second symbol would be the color red. In the village, the color red (which normally shows up as red berries) they would bury it. I also think of the color red "the bad color" to be another example of communism because they buried the red berries to cover up their fear of the red color. As in commumism, they would get rid of something they don't want in their lives.

The third symbol would be the color yellow. To show that they mean no harm, "the safe color" basically means they can wear that color to protect themselves from being in harms way with the creature. To me, that reminds me of our army. The people in the army are out to protect us and themselves too. Just like the people in the army, the people in the village wear yellow to protect themselves when they walk around the border of the woods.

I compared the three symbols to life in general to relate back to the movie to really show what the symbols ment. Their civilization was murder/crime free till Noah stabbed Lucias. The elders were relying on Ivy and Lucias to keep the elders tradition going and so Ivy traveled into the woods to actual civilization to get medication for Lucias. It ended up being ironic for Noah for the fact that he dressed up as the creature and chased Ivy in the woods but he ended up being killed in the end.