The Village Symbolism

The film The Village presented many ideas that are different from our contemporary society. The two biggest central points that the film represented were that leaders control everything and that the village society was not very advanced. The people who lived in the village were afraid because of the monsters that terrorized them. These monsters in the village were known as “those we must not speak of”, representing the fear of the villagers for these monsters. This relates back to the central idea that the leaders controlled everything, because the leaders wanted to avoid any altercations with these monster due to their fear. The leaders of the village made sure no red was represented in the village because it could draw the creatures. They also rejected Lucius’s request to go beyond the woods to get medicine for the village because of the danger it could bring upon the village. They were afraid that if Lucius goes into the woods the monsters would terrorize the village, because the monsters would feel threatened. This leads to the next central point that the village was not advanced as other societies. They had no system of currency medicine, or weaponry, showing the vulnerability of the village …show more content…
The biggest concepts that stood out were that taking risks is a bad idea, and the concept of symbolism. The people in the village had no idea of what is beyond the woods but they won’t risk their lives to find out. The villagers would rather stay in their struggling lives than take a risk to get a better life. This is evident when the villagers found out Noah had been in the woods and nothing happened to him. Even after that, they did not approve Lucius’s request to go beyond the wall. This proves the villagers were afraid to take the risk to improve their lives, even when the creatures were not as threatening as originally