Message from @Orchid
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"The townsfolk live by mores that today have largely been abandoned. Traditional sex roles are embraced; women are in charge of housework and child-rearing duties, while men labor in the fields. Boys and girls are required to obey their parents. Sexual repression is viewed as necessary in order to keep the families together. The patriarch of the community, for instance, refrains from taking up with a certain widow — though it is clear he is attracted to her — because he is a married man. (Compare that decision with the radically different choice made by a “patriarch” of our country a few years ago!)
In spite of their outmoded customs, and in spite of the fact that the village elders have deceitfully concocted a lie about the monsters and simplistically painted “the towns” as havens of vice and depravity, the movie does not condemn the elders for their decision to secede from the 20th century and shun the 21st. In fact, scenes that take place in “the towns” prominently feature newspaper headlines and radio reports of murder and mayhem, which serve to underline the notion that perhaps the settlers chose wisely to leave when they did.
At the movie’s end, when the elders decide to rededicate themselves to keeping their community going following a period of crisis, the viewer is relieved: it would have been disappointing indeed if they had chosen to fold up their tents and slink back toward Gomorrah.
The boldest aspect of the film’s critique of modernity is also its most subtle, but it is apparent upon reflection. Is it really only a coincidence that the townsfolk are all white? And given that crime is cited relentlessly as a reason for avoiding “the towns,” is it such a stretch to call the villagers white separatists, who have left a world beset by social breakdown brought on by multicultural chaos, where whites are not infrequent victims of robbery, rape, and murder?"
It could be that M. Night Shyamalan, as a non-white director, can get away with implying that traditional sexual morality and racial homogeneity may actually be desirable things, even for whites.
"Lord knows the heat Mel Gibson would take for making any such implication. Still, white advocates should be gracious enough to accept the sympathetic overtures Shyamalan appears to be making — however guardedly — on their behalf."
The Village is great, but I haven't seen it in forever 😄
Damn, that is pretty good.
The Village was quite enjoyable
im thinking of another film club, this time on saturday 6pm
Is that 2 am cet?
🤔
Saturday sounds good
thats 11pm cet
this saturday? today?
@everyone next film club is 9.5 hours from now
noice
5 hours away!
and hour and a half away
what film?
^
still deciding, likely some sort of a classic
You do these every Saturday?
is it supposed to be more artistic?
@everyone film club starting in 10 minutes
assassination of jesse james
awesome movie
nice
I've never seen it 👌
It's a great movie, but I saw it really recently
It's really good, but the ending killed me FeelsBadMan
post ideas for movies you guys would want to watch next
Chinatown
FUXK
i missed iy
it
fucking hell i had work
Fucc I missed book club 😠
history documentaries
@Orchid Hellstorm
Triumph of the Will