Village of innocence

If anyone has seen the movie 'The Village', we can understand the apparent paradox of the category the movie was put into - Horror. I was horrified to see that. But then some sane person in the Ratings department corrected it to Drama. I really liked this movie. It was different from most movies and provided a very good insight of how societies of today funtion.

Fear, is the central theme of the movie. It was so insightful to see how people are united and bound by fear. I was so moved by the apparent analogy to today's world I could not stop admiring Shyamalan. Isn't it really the fear that is the single most uniting factor of any kind of society? If a nation fears an enemy, and worst of all the enemy keeps attacking, the people forget their differences and fight against that enemy. If there is no enemy, there is no purpose. In fact world exists on a purpose and what better purpose than to kill the enemy and make peace for the society.

At this point, I saw the main difference in the movie and real world. Well, the enemy in the movie was this mythical, devilish creature. Our enemies on the contrary are humans. Real people who look like us, walk like us, speak, eat, read, write. So why are they our enemies? In the animal kingdom, no same species kill each other like the way humans do. So being the most intelligent animal in the world has taught us this? To 'create' enemies, guard 'created' boundaries and to kill each other for that? I don't seem to get this.

For a moment there I had forgotten the law that nature has outlined. Survival of the fittest. I think the most basic law rules, and all people live by that. We have to accept the fact that there is a limit to which the earth can support all these creatures on its own. So it puts this law, if you are fit, you survive. If you can live in any environment, defend yourself in any condition, you survive, you live and you rule your life. For if you cannot survive, you are dead, and lost your chance to enjoy this world. THAT is the drive, THAT is the motivation and when people fail to see THAT, their 'created' leaders create FEAR!!!