{"id":598,"date":"2009-01-28T05:11:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T10:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2010-08-08T04:44:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T08:44:01","slug":"the-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"The Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-600\" title=\"village_l\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/village_l-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"village_l\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/village_l-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/village_l.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables \/> <w:SnapToGridInCell \/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct \/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules \/> <\/w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]>\n<mce:style><!   \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \tmso-style-noshow:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; \tmso-para-margin:0in; \tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";} --><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><span class=\"postbody\">You know, it&#8217;s clunky, the idea is kind of predictable, but I was spooked at times, and I always find M. Night&#8217;s films to be clever, if not always the day after viewing them. I&#8217;m glad what seemed to be the surprise was revealed at the beginning of act III, not the end. The concept overall is a very intelligent commentary on the way we live insular lives, whether it is deliberate or not. I am <em>very<\/em> surprised I enjoyed this and rather stunned at how smart it appears at first glance. I&#8217;m sure it will fall apart under further inspection. I can understand the hatred though, especially in terms of as a thriller and how Brody&#8217;s character makes no sense. But if one sees it as an impression about how they believed they ought to act, it almost works like satire.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, it&#8217;s clunky, the idea is kind of predictable, but I was spooked at times, and I always find M. Night&#8217;s films to be clever, if not always the day after viewing them. I&#8217;m glad what seemed to be the surprise was revealed at the beginning of act III, not the end. The concept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[5188,407,410,261,961,26,4600,409,140,5189,262,411,408,2841,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}