The wingnuts are getting really defensive (review slams "liberal" village)

[POed_Ex_Repub]

First it was "9/11 is full of lies".. then it's the "Manchurian Candidate is liberal propoganda"... now... "The Village"... The Village? WTF? The tinfoil hats must be going at a 2 for 1 special in Freeperland...


http://www.nypost.com/movies/18254.htm

Edited for spelling...

[MichaelHarris]

1. I saw

a little report on Fox News about the Village being anti-bush but I didn't pay attention. Kinda like I do with anything Faux says.

[The empressof all]

2. They are very afraid

and now they are getting paranoid. I have to say finding anti-bushisms in movies that were filmed a year ago is a pretty pathetic stretch. They can't even do paranoia with any intelligence.

[NJCher]

3. that's really pathetic

Paranoia is a dish best served...

...with intelligence!


Cher

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Actually there is allegory in what's going on in "The Village" very

relevant to the reality we are living in the modern day U.S. I thought it was well done, and without a doubt, it is a critique of what is happening here. I defy anyone to follow this weekend's news broadcasts, watch this movie (which I just came home from) and not see it.

[aldian159]

5. What makes it anti-Freeper?

Besides intellect and a plot, that is.

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. Well, it has a lot to do with the use of fear...

As a means of manipulation. I really can't tell you any more unless you really want to know. :hi:

[carols]

6. ANyone else notice they used the word "progressive"-ly twice

...in the first two paragraphs. It's an obsession with them, dah-link!
:-)
Carol

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

7. GOOD!

We got 'em jumping at shadows that aren't even there! HA!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. This man must look for commies under his bed

"Walker teaches his young charges that they must not venture beyond village borders, which are marked with yellow banners that are apparently meant to evoke the Homeland Security's color-coded alerts."

Uh-huh. And the bad guys are all carbon-based lifeforms, just like REPUBLICANS! GASP!!!

[dorktv]

12. Anyone who has watched more then one of M. Night's

movies knows that he uses colour to signify something important. Bright colours in Unbreakable, red in the Sixth Sense...

[Connie_Corleone]

9. I read that before I went to see it.

The story in the movie makes you think about Bush...only if you read this review beforehand. Otherwise, I would've never made the connection. That review made me enjoy the movie even more just thinking about it being anti-bush.

:evilgrin:

[library_max]

11. Boy, the shoe must really fit.

Shyamalan produces a very generic fable about people letting fear control their lives, and suddenly it's a polemic about Bush? Because the hero of it, the one who overcomes her fear and gives everyone some measure of hope at the end, is named Walker? Along with her father, who lets her do it against the wishes of the other elders? If Shyamalan had wanted to slam Bush, he would have identified him with Noah Percy, not either of the Walker characters.

If everything about the corrosive nature of fear is really about Bush, then we've made a pretty naked admission, haven't we?