Sunday, January 10, 2010

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THE VILLAGE (Shyamalan)

Popular Film, is not it?
Nevertheless, even after the cover of the DVD, the story is supposed to happen in 1897 (almost like a painting of Jean-Francois Millet ):

This is going to be totally false, of course. .. And so, careful if you have never seen this film, I am absolutely obliged to speak as a "spoiler"! Double
theme revealed at the outset: first, life in a village community in the last century ... No electricity, no car, no phone (and even without the Internet, Wi-barge!), But with a lot of mutual trust and a strong religious belief:

other hand, the absolute prohibition tolerate any red:

Colour expected to attract a strange hostile creature in the village:

good reason why he is strongly advised not to cross the forest to reach a so-called largest city, which also contributes to the unity of the community:

Similarly in the brilliant film Affliction (which I recently spoke not long ago, unfortunately without any "how"), colors play a very important role in the structure of this film, starting with the red forbidden Of course, the popular blue and green of nature, brown and white for most clothing, and of course yellow, seen mostly as a tool of protection:

particular night, when the village is intentionally encircled by flames and yellow flags:

This does not always prevent these very bad influences, even if they do not address directly to the man

II history, linked and parallel: the love of the young blind girl from the village, Ivy Walker (Bryce Dallas Howard ) towards the young man "committed", ready to fight all the constraints, Lucius Hunt (Joaquin Phoenix , whose mother Alice is played by the very famous Sigourney Weaver , Alien, of course):

In consideration with the mutual passion of a young man somewhat crazy, Noah Percy (Adrien Brody ) rather difficult to manage, despite the leniency of the "beasts" to him :

One aspect, therefore, in summary very important movie in my point of view ... The fact that four different visions of life present themselves simultaneously: first, related to common habits, and usual general and the second, showing that not to see "real" some things can see others more accurately, the third related to the courage of the opposition and the constant search for an original solution, the fourth, combined with the fact that some form of insanity may But partnering with some good points (which, I assure you, will not last long, lol)!
After a good third of the film, an evening indeed begins to show relatively menacing

With an extremely brief appearance in the famous red creature (making it difficult to account with simple images, but at the assembly, this proves quite scary, actually):

terrible creature whose brand will be guessed on all the houses the next day:

As a musician, say that this movie touches me deeply, because relatively based on the shape of most Symphonies Romantics, who after a first movement to be quite complex s' oppose them two or three main themes ( Beethoven ) or four ( Brahms), or even five, six or seven ( Bruckner, Mahler ) mark suddenly a sort of pause with a slow markedly more positive and harmonious, as here, the beautiful scene marriage (the sister of Ivy Walker):

Unfortunately followed what we might call "an ugly Scherzo " Lucius Hunt found stabbed several times by the general ill Noah Percy (who still has not managed to completely kill):

And this is the moment when the film reveals that much of reality (Well then, I'm perhaps not ultimately a "spoiler", lol! ), where the father of Ivy Walker (the excellent actor William Hurt ) assumes the fact to teach him how these creatures "monstrous" are in fact completely bogus and artificial, in this case entirely created by him to protect the village

This just before letting her go to the "Real" big city, the twentieth century it is one of the few who know very well, a task it will ultimately end up charging all alone, given the overwhelming fear of his two partners (who will rush to abandon it after a short quarter of an hour of terror):

The film then returns to the very strange and very revealing moment in the past, the where the father of Ivy Walker he discovered inside a disused place the strange costume of "false predator"

Immediately followed by sublime scenes in nature, where not only Ivy Walker will compete with a very unexpected creature of this kind (well, I will not say who is under that mask, anyway), but where all colors at once - those of nature, that of the beast, and that of protection - will compete together in this legendary stage, which I find absolutely brilliant ( and still very scary, even after seeing the movie a dozen times, because the assembly and the colors are awesome, I think):

But fortunately, Ivy Walker will finally end up putting all the odds in your favor:

end of the film: while his father will not stop digging into his box of photos (about horrible murders that occurred in large American cities of the twentieth century), trying to justify his sudden desire to have created at once a ' false "village of the nineteenth isolated from everything, recreating the community between people, and isolated from all the nearby towns by the invention of false predators prohibiting the crossing of the forest:

Ivy Walker finally succeed in his goal (also wanted by his father, the rest), arrive in our time in search of some modern drugs could - perhaps - to heal Lucius Hunt:

What a miracle, it will do much to do - with, as a result, an end of the film extremely comforting and positive

Two last details: first, would you know which one might guess, reflected in the fridge drugs? But yes, as in all movies of Alfred Hitchcock , it is the only "self" plan two seconds from director M. Night Shyamalan , which he did routinely in all his films , lol!
Second: the music is absolutely huge, airy unavoidable due to the very famous James Newton Howard , and performed by the ultra talented violinist Hilary Hahn (moreover, curiously enough resemblance to the actress Brice Dallas Howard ):

Well, DSL, I might be revealed too much, then, on this one ... But I hope you enjoy this film as much as me (oddly, I loved all his previous ones, but I did not like the next Lady in the Water that m has greatly disappointed) ...

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