The Village


The film opens on the funeral of a child in a small village. The death date on the tombstone establishes the date as 1897. As the story progresses it is revealed that the villagers live in fear of nameless creatures in the woods that surround the village. They have built a barrier of oil lanterns and watch towers that are constantly manned to keep watch for Those We Don't Speak Of. It is explained that the villagers have a long-standing truce with Those We Don't Speak Of; the villagers don't go into their woods, and the creatures don’t enter their village. Even so, dead, skinned bodies of small animals are starting to appear around the village.


After the death of the child, Lucius Hunt (Joaquin Phoenix) asks the Elders (the village's governing leaders) for permission to pass through the woods to get medical supplies from "the towns". His request is turned down and later he is admonished by his mother Alice (Sigourney Weaver) for wanting to go to the towns, described as "wicked places where wicked people live". It is revealed in that scene that the Elders seem to keep dark secrets of their own in the form of black boxes, the contents of which they keep hidden from their own offspring. After Lucius makes a short venture into the woods the creatures leave warnings around the village in the form of splashes of red paint (referred by the villagers only as "the bad color") on all the villagers' doors.


Meanwhile, Ivy Walker (Bryce Dallas Howard), the blind daughter of the head Elder, Edward Walker (William Hurt), informs Lucius that she has strong feelings for him, and he returns her affections. They arrange to be married, but things go horribly wrong when Noah Percy (Adrien Brody), a friend of Ivy and Lucius who is mentally disabled and apparently enamored of Ivy, jealously attacks Lucius with a knife, seriously wounding him.


Edward goes against the wishes of the other Elders, agreeing to allow Ivy to pass through the forest and seek out medicine for Lucius. Before she leaves the first plot twist is revealed when Edward explains the secret of the creatures — they are fabrications created by the Elders in an attempt to keep any of their children from leaving the village. He does mention though that he had heard rumors of "real creatures" living in the woods.


While Ivy is traveling through the forest, one of the beasts suddenly attacks her. She cunningly tricks it into falling into a hole in the ground where it is killed by the fall. It is then the second plot twist is revealed — the creature is actually Noah in a creature costume that he had found under the floor of the room he had been locked in. It is implied in that scene that it has been Noah skinning the animals all along.


Ivy eventually finds her way to the edge of the woods where she encounters a large wall. After she climbs over the wall the final plot twist is revealed — the film is set in the present day (a newspaper in one scene has July 30th 2004 on it, the date of the film's release). A park ranger named Kevin, driving a Land Rover with the words "Walker Wildlife Preserve" on the side spots Ivy and is shocked to hear that she has come out of the woods. After hearing Ivy's last name is "Walker" he agrees to help her.


Once Ivy has the medicine she is looking for, she returns to the village. This sequence is intercut with brief segments showing the Elders opening their black boxes, which are revealed to contain mementos from their lives in the outside world, including one or more items related to the traumatic events in their past.


The film seems to have had a change made to its ending some time after filming was officially completed. Actors were called back to the set 5 months later to film a scene in which Ivy gets back to the village and her love Lucius. (Wikipedia)


Ivy and Lucius


I really do adore this pair, and I'm so excited to be running their fanlisitng. She braved the unknown for him, which shows how truely and madly in love she is with him. Ivy tells Lucius she wants him to dance with her and their wedding, and when NNoah stabs Lucius She must recieve medicine for him in able to save him. I was really disappointed with the ending of the movie *honestly, thats how it ended?* but hopefully Ivy and Lucius were albe to live together in peace.


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