All of the ideologies, in this world, are trying to reach a high level of human pleasure in a societal level, arent they?
The very last movie I’ve watched was “The Village” from Shyamalan which depicts the tale of an isolated town confronting the astonishing truth that lies just outside its borders. At first glance, this village seems picture perfect, but this close-knit community lives with the frightening knowledge that creatures reside in the surrounding woods. The evil and foreboding force is so unnerving that none dare venture beyond the borders of the village and into the woods. But when curious, headstrong Lucius Hunt plans to step beyond the boundaries of the town and into the unknown, his bold move threatens to forever change the future of the village[i]
The social structuralization of this little village is based on the innocence and happiness of the people, living in a commune, common propertied way, without economy as we know it. As far as I understood from the movie there are basic institutions that would corrupt the human mind and empower the ambition of racing and even killing which are economy, and basically monetary institutions. As long as the social structure provides the happiness and satisfaction to the people of the village, they would not be in need of an exchange such as money. As an unavoidable feature of human kind, death becomes normalized and people dont even try to find medicines, though the attempts are de-motivated by the fear of evil creatures, created by the elders and founders of the village. The unnatural fears are maybe the most dangerous ones that people are the most afraid of, most trying not to break the rules to avoid the danger. Also I didn’t realised any obvious religious affairs in the movie such as rituels or so…(Perhaps, religion itself, releases the most ancient human ambition to kill to execute the word of “God” yet in the village there is no other world to spread any kind of belief)[ii]
Above anything, this movie left me with dilemmas such as society vs individualism, social pattern vs freedom, happiness of all ?/= happiness of one, happiness vs individual ambitions… the idea for the “elders” to build such a social system was their suffering out of miserable, anguished experiences that they experienced in the order of the modern capitalist/ambitious/relentless world. Trying to create a society where noone is envying others properties yet those properties are pre-provided and shared commonly; a society where love is sacred and free from prejudices, a society where women are included into the daily production and consumption as men equally though still a girl has to ask her father for the permisson for her love. People are dying because of even the simpliest diseases but just to keep the order stil and stable, elders could face with the fact of deaths of their beloveds. Strangely, at the end of the movie, this guy who helped the girl without questioning her, is leading you this question: “ this sort of societies would let anyone else to get in?”
The state of innocence and love and order is seemed to be the most desired human ambition throughout the entire history which led and is leading to warfare and carnage and destruction of the nature itself by the technology. All the ideologies in the world that is governing or governed a state and a public has/had to create some kind of fear towards others to keep themselves as one nation, one ideology, one religion etc… every country/ideology/religion as defined has a natural enemy such as neighbour states, anti ideologies or atheism; so in this movie, a bunch of people created this kind of fear and founded a minimal society yet a peaceful one. The color red became a symbol for crime, blood and human ambition which is banned. The colour yellow would be the symbol for innocence and peace and obedience to those who are wise and elder. Putting a colour on a piece of cloth and giving its meaning makes it a flag and a flag makes people, public,nation whatsoever. Basicly what you see in the movie is nothing different than the creation of societies as we know them through the history of humanity. Yet there are stil a couple of questions left: Can we make a society in a fearless way? Do we need to have enemies in order to understand the goodness and innocence?
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