I'm a bit confused about your review, as I consider it a blind attack without deep consideration of the actual film.
Being an enormous fan of both the Sixth Sense and Signs, I have no reason to believe that M. Night Shymalon's craft is lifeless-- let alone depreciating. Likewise, after watching the Village with high expectations and having them met, I have reason to reply to your review.
My intention isn't to warp your established opinions, but rather to enlighten you with a further understanding of the movie.
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Every village needs an idiot -- and M. Night Shyamalon is hoping it's you
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Thus, any following opinion of mine is voided as senseless... I'll assume this is simply a fallacy :)
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Still, Ivy runs across open fields, climbs stairs and dances with abandon. She also has an amazing command of her eye-lead, uncannily glancing at people as they speak or looking in the direction of sounds -- or could it be that the actress, who was not auditioned for the role, simply spent too much time in boot camp and not enough in blind camp?
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As for running in open fields, climbing, recognizing objects around her -- after 20 odd years (did she give her age?) of living in the same environment under the same debilitation, it's completely understandable for the body to become more acutely aware of its other senses to survive. Later in the film, Ivy counts steps under her breath (a universal method among the blind live a mobile life), which is a rational explanation for her consciousness to the different homes/landmarks throughout the village.
As for looking at people when they speak, I perceived it as both her raised courtesy (is it not impolite to look somewhere else as someone’s talking to you?) and her desire to act and blend with the rest of the community. I found her performance to be both subtle and accurate (or am I carping this section of the review?).
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the twist is easily guessable so early on it's like a kick in the teeth when it finally comes
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Perhaps I am an idiot -- as I too figured out the twist before everyone I knew that watched the movie. Yet I "caught" it much closer to the end. Can you recall the exact moment that you figured it out in the beginning? Or is this an attack on perceived predictability?
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The Village's most unforgivable transgression is that it's boring. It's clumsy, predictable, ponderous and downright dull
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Definitely an opinion I can't change, however, I do feel that you didn't give the film its due chance.
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line that got the most laughs -- Ivy holds up a leather pouch and alludes to the fact that she can leave the village unscathed because she has the "magic rocks"
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Wasn't the intention of the line supposed to be silly? As Ivy already knew the truth of the "creatures", a slapdash talisman to coerce the two other boys into following seemed completely logical and reasonable. Surely you must have been laughing at the two boys for listening to Ivy's statement...
Although I agree with your belief that the advertisements were misleading -- the film was more a story of "values" and "love" rather than
pure horror -- you did not give the film it's deserved credit, but instead associated it's poor advertising and labeled a "poor film"
Take care
-kevino