The "Village" is actually a modern day commune started by a group of people disaffected with modern society.
In order to keep their children from leaving the commune, and hold onto their power, the Village leaders manufactured "monsters" in the woods. Some have speculated that this is a metaphor for Bush and the war on terror.
How can you POSSIBLY equate that with President Bush? The commune is at least 20 years old anyway, maybe more.
This is lame. This is pathetic. The only "disaffection" was actually about personal experiences with violent crime.
So we have a thread based on someone's speculation.
I speculate that it's really a metaphor for Kerry's Vietnam experience. Did you know he was in Vietnam?
Unfortunately, the script was written prior to the "War on Terror".
Talk about some thin skinned people...
Anything and everything that could be portrayed as anti-GOP is.
Those must have been the critics I've seen wearing tinfoil hats.
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The twist:
The "Village" is actually a modern day commune started by a group of people disaffected with modern society.
In order to keep their children from leaving the commune, and hold onto their power, the Village leaders manufactured "monsters" in the woods. Some have speculated that this is a metaphor for Bush and the war on terror.
I take it this way: There is a group of people in this world that does not want any progress, wants to live in a middle ages type society, and sees those in the modern age as terrible and evil (great satan, infidels).
There is one group I know of like that now.
That's some pretty stupid speculation.
I don't mind having the movie ruined...I doubt I see it now with this dumb twist.
There are no monsters?
What's the point of watching then...
"In order to keep their children from leaving the commune, and hold onto their power, the Village leaders manufactured "monsters" in the woods. Some have speculated that this is a metaphor for Bush and the war on terror."
If that's the basis for a charge of bush-bashing, it sounds kind of thin. Well, you can find metaphors anywhere you want, I guess.
I saw The Manchurian Candidate the other nite. Now a lot of people claim that is a bush-bashing movie too. Maybe Jonathan Demme meant it as an attack on Bush, but it worked out more in the opposite direction. To me and other people I talked to there were eerie Kerry parallels in the story of the fake "war hero." And Meryl Streep may not have intended it, but the character of the evil mother of the candidate seemed modelled on Hillary Clinton -- mannerisms were very reminiscent, I can't help thinking that Streep, either deliberately or inadvertently, was channelling HRC.