Although I love the the way the film was filmed, but this movie have no story arc, no character development, and no ending. This movie ended in the same place as it started, no one have grown any wiser, no problem was ever solved, and nothing was gained. The film have many plot holds in it, for example, as others have pointed out where did all other town people come from if it was the core elders who come up with the idea in the first place? Where did they get all that fuel oil to burn at night? They must have cornered the lamp oil market. Even if the lamp oil are supplied from the outside world how do they get it? No matter how rich the leader was, there was just no way of keeping the outside world from intruding, and then how far the elder will go to keep their secrets.
Review of The Village
