THE VILLAGE

 

The Village is a 2004 American psychological thriller film, written, produced, and directed by  M. Night Shyamalan about a village whose inhabitants live in fear of creatures inhabiting the woods beyond it. The film gave composer James Newton Howard his fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.

 

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TASK 1. Translate the words and write them with transcription.

 

Glossary

 

 

TASK 2. Put the sentences in the right order.

a) Ivy informs Lucius that she has strong feelings for him. They arrange to be married.

b) Edward lets Ivy pass through the forest and seek out medicine for Lucius.

c) After the funeral of a seven-year-old boy, Lucius Hunt asks the village elders for permission to pass through the woods to get medical supplies from "the towns".

d) Kevin secretly retrieves medicine from his ranger station, and Ivy returns to the village with the supplies.

e) Noah Percy stabs Lucius with a knife.

f) After Lucius makes a short venture into the woods, the creatures leave warnings around the village in the form of splashes of red paint on all the villagers' doors.

g) After Noah's death all the Elders take a vote to continue living in the village.

h) While Ivy is travelling through the forest, one of the beasts suddenly attacks her.

i) Ivy eventually finds her way to the far edge of the woods, where she encounters a high, ivy-covered wall.

 

TASK 3. Mark the statements with true or false.

a) The villagers have a long-standing truce with the monsters; the villagers do not go into their woods, and the creatures do not enter their village.

b) "Those we don't speak of" are the ghosts in the wood.

c) The Elders seem to keep dark secrets of their own in black boxes.

d) Yellow is considered to be "the bad colour".

e) Ivy Elizabeth Walker is the blind daughter of the chief Elder, Edward Walker.

f) Noah Percy is a young man with an apparent developmental and learning disability.

g) The creatures in the wood is a "farce".

h) The creature decoyed by Ivy is a park ranger in a costume of beast.

i) Noah Percy stabs Lucius with a knife because he hates Ivy.

j) A park ranger drives a car with the words "Walker Wildlife Preserve" on the side.

k) Lucius died at the end of the film.

 

TASK 4. Answer the questions.

1) What's your favourite kind of film?

2) Do you prefer watching films at home or at the cinema?

3) What film did you watch at the cinema last time?

4) Do you like the film «A village»?

5) What do you feel after watching this film?

6) Do you sympathize with Ivy? Why?

7) Why did the Elders make a decision to escape from other people?

8) Do you want to live in a village like that in the film? Why?

9) How do you think is it right of the Elders to lie people in a village about the beasts?