The Village????

[SLICK RICK]

I was watching The Village and noticed at the begining of the movie as "August Nicholson" (play by Brendan Gleeson) was crying over his son's coffin, that the tombstone was dated 1890 to 1897. So I was under the impression that the time period of the movie was 1890's or early 1900's. If that time period is correct, then where in the hell did that jeep, near the end of the movie, come from after "Ivy Walker" (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) jumped the fence out of the woods. I was not alive in the early 1900's but I think it is safe for me to say that there were no jeeps like that around. Anyone know what is the deal with the jeep?

[BJ_M]

The film is set in modern times, but the elders decided to set the village itself in the late 1800s. Walker comes up with the idea of 'Those We Do Not Name' because he teaches history and has read about the myths of these creatures.

The reason no one stumbled over the village is because the main elder, Ivy's father, owned the property. At the end you will notice that the area is named Walker Conservation and that is the same last name as Ivy. And then it is mentioned that someone paid to make the area a no fly zone, leaving the watcher to believe that Ivy's father paid to have this designation.

[smearbrick1]

The film is set in modern times, but the elders decided to set the village itself in the late 1800s. Walker comes up with the idea of 'Those We Do Not Name' because he teaches history and has read about the myths of these creatures.

The reason no one stumbled over the village is because the main elder, Ivy's father, owned the property. At the end you will notice that the area is named Walker Conservation and that is the same last name as Ivy. And then it is mentioned that someone paid to make the area a no fly zone, leaving the watcher to believe that Ivy's father paid to have this designation.

...and because all of the village "elders" experienced some sort of tragedy in their lives that brought them together, they decided to shelter themselves and their children from the evils of the outside world. The stories were used as sort of deterrent for anyone who wanted to venture beyond the forest, and to keep their existence secret. Ultimately, the story shows that, regardless of how much you try to hide from evil and violence you can never truly get away (hence, the whole Adrian Brody stabbing Juaquin Phoenix out of jealousy thing.)