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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: SHYAMALAN-TOBER: The Village (2004)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of mental illness, violence, cults and harmful communal living, disabilities and neurological issues, bad depictions of mental illness, performers Joaquin Phoenix and Adrien Brody.
This week in our M. Night Shyamalan series, we’re examining a film that many consider his masterpiece, but in reality is both messy and problematic. There’s obvious missteps with a specific character that needed far more nuance than this movie allowed. More subtly, though, the...