Symbolism in "The Village"

The film “The Village” is about a village whose people live in fear of creatures that live in the woods beyond it. The elders of the village didn’t let the people pass through the woodsIn the movie, we can find a lot of use of symbolism. An example could be the colors. This movie deals with colors a lot, but especially yellow and red. Yellow in the film symbolizes innocence. If you notice, none of the elders ever wear the safe color, only the younger ones do. They are never seen wearing yellow because they are not innocent. The elders try to avoid sin and sorrow, but by doing so become sinful themselves. There are moments when certain characters lose their innocence, and to represent this they are covered in red. 

Another example of symbolism in this movie is Ivy’s blindness. Ivy symbolizes the fact that the elders keep the villagers in the dark about the real world. She can see a few colors, she sees a color when she sees Luicious and her father. I think she sees yellow when she sees Lucious because he is innocent and red when she sees her father because he is not. The monsters are another example because they are called “those we don’t speak of,” representing the secrets the elders don’t speak of. The elders have become monsters by trying to hide from sin and the black boxes they each keep in their house represent their inner demons as well as their inner secrets. The movie has a very twisted ending when the truth comes out and the elders are the ones who are the monsters.