M・ナイト・シャマラン監督の新作『ザ・ヴィレッジ』The Village
>> 19世紀アメリカ東部の村(ヴィレッジ)。その村を囲む森には怪物が住み、時たま家畜を襲っていた。
>> そのため、人々は村から決して外に出ずに自給自足で暮らしていた。しかし、ある事件で、一人の若者が結界の外に出る決心をする。
(酷評の映画評、最後の部分) http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2004/07/073006.html
Eventually the secret of Those, etc., is revealed. To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes.
It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore.
And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.