The Village

I like to show this in conjunction with The Crucible (it looks at the theme of blindly following along), "Young Goodman Brown" (I thought of Hawthorne's works as I was watching it), or Fahrenheit 451 (it exams the question, what is the cost of maintaining a 'utopia' and censoring people?). When Kristie and I originally saw it in theaters, I thought it was brilliant.  Probably Shyamalan's best work since The Sixth Sense, but there was a group of kids behind us who hated it.  Part of it was that they didn't understand it (probably texting while it was going on and missed the subtle clues) and part of it was that it was mistakenly marketed as a horror film, which it certainly is not. I have been pleasantly surprised these last few days how riveted the kids have been by the movie. Now, if we can just have a good talk about the larger ideas inherent in the film.