The Village Symbolism

The movie “The Village” was written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and released July 26, 2004. The movie is about a group of friends who experience a tragic death of someone who was close to them all. They moved deep into the woods and started a whole new life with their kids. They made up a myth about creatures on the outside of their village to keep everyone in and also away from the town near bye. The movie maker of the film used conflict, imagery, sound, and symbolism to give their audience a true feeling and to keep their audience engaged.
The main element of literature the movie revealed was symbolism. In the beginning of the movie it was summer and it ended in the winter. In literature winter symbolizes death. This is one the ways Shyamalan let us know things was about to unfold. Winter came in right when they had started to give people permission to go into the woods and when the creatures started entering the village. Red is the color that attracted the creatures in the movie. The color green was displayed throughout the movie and it symbolizes the

nature around the characters in the movie. The color gold was the color of the capes they wore and also the safe color of choice.
Shyamalan used dialogued to add the illusion of reality. Alice Hunt referred to her son Lucius Hunt as a colt, which is a wild horse that can’t be tamed. He was called this because after being denied once to go in the woods Lucius insisted on going into town to retrieve medicine. In one scene Lucius is holding some yarn while his mother is sewing. This to me symbolizes an umbilical cord, because the only other time a child is connected to their mother is at birth. As they got up from the table to finish their talk two candles behind them on the table is seen and that to me symbolized separation between the two be for he cross into the forbidden woods.
Conflict between the characters left the viewers impatient for the outcome and kept them engaged.

Before anything happened the viewer would notice a black object somewhere in the scene whether it was the black chair or the great big boiling pot. Ivy father finally tells her the truth about crossing over into the woods. When she’s met by a creature in the woods it turns out to be Noah Percy in a suit. That’s somethings that the audience knew but Ivy didn’t, because she’s blind. By the audience knowing what character don’t this is called dramatic irony. She led the creature into the hole and kills him and right then and there the audience recognized that it was Noah. The image of Noah in the hole represents a monster and a civil human being. When she gets to the end of her destination she comes upon a wall full of Ivey leaves and that’s symbolizes that the journey to town was meant to be taken by

her.
Yes, Shyamalan used other elements of literature but the most important element used is symbolism. The movie grabbed my attention with conflict, signaled me with symbolism, and with sound the movie maker are tapped into deep, instinctive fears. Without literary elements like this those stated earlier the creation of this movie would’ve came together and it would’ve been harder to stay engaged in the movie.