Are you really free if you live in a society controlled by fear? In The Village, M. Night Shyamalan illustrates a small society of people who are protected and free through the fear that they have because of ignorance.
The village is a small group of people who have isolated themselves from society out of fear; fear of the evil of this world. Only the elders of the village know the truth, everyone else is captured by the fear that the surrounding woods are filled with violent creatures. While the actual world is ...