Wiki #9: The Village

The Village is a movie that deals with a group of adults who decide to leave the present world after they all suffer heartbreak due to it's evils, and recede into a secluded 19th century village. In the village they fabricate a story that their are creatures in the woods that will threaten the village if anyone enters. This keeps the future generations from wanting to leave for the towns, until one of them wants to go fetch medicine. The village elders, however, refuse to allow this because the towns are "wicked places where wicked people live" and they do not want others exposed to this. However, an act of violence soon shows them that violence is not only limited to the outside world and they allow one girl to go through the woods and fetch medicine for her dying fiance. The main point that I find in the story is that grief is unavoidable, whether due to evil or nature, and that hope may be found for someone where only grief exists for another.