The Village

First I shall write on The Village which I saw 3 days ago and then I shall write on The Terminal which I saw last night.

The Village is testimony to the M Nyattu Shyamalan's (MNS) incredible ability to weave a griiping story abt a small idea. He maintains a taut script while creating a world of his own. In fact the Village reminds one of the book Fahrenheit 451, which is also built on an idea, quite ahead of its time.
Quite a welcome break these days from inane, mindless violent movies such as "Alien vs Predator" masquerading as futuristic stuff! Bovine Excretum (B.E. TM)!!! Like Einstein said once, "I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs." The Village is closer to what I think the future would be like rather than what most movies these days portray.

Its difficult to say write more abt this movie, without revealing the plot.

The blind character played by a relative unknown called ...Bryce is fantastically done. There are these 2 consecutive scenes wherein the blind woman's sister proposes to Jaoquim Phoenix and then another one where she reacts to his response. These are reminscent of Hindi films. There is this delightful interlude between father and daughter when she announces that she is in love and then the father says, "Have you told the boy yet?" When she replies in the negative, he tells his daughter that you should tell the boy first!!!

Adrian Brody also essays a fairly offbeat role here. There was a movie with him as a boy in love on Star Movies/HBO recently (Liberty Heights, I think) which had him in a vastly different role than the one we now him by - in The Pianist.

There is a nice cameo by MNS himself.

Good Watch, if one wants to challenge one's creativity!