Corrected entry: There are too many things in the village that the villagers couldn't make themselves. It's true that they could have brought things like oil lamps with them, but it seems odd that they would have also brought a huge stock of fancy clothing (bowler and top hats, decorated shirts and waistcoats) that would require a highly-skilled and very well-equipped craftsman or a factory to make. The ones they brought thirty years ago would have worn out, and they couldn't know how many children they'd have or what sizes they'd be.
Joshua Skains
31st Aug 2004
The Village (2004)
8th Aug 2004
The Village (2004)
Corrected entry: The Elders have no reason to lie about the year, other than to further the plot and make the ending more of a surprise. Lying to the children by saying its 1897 makes no more a difference than saying its 2004, if that is the only life they ever knew.
Correction: The elders were trying to live in a time period where they felt more "hope". They were hiding from the violence of the modern world. The lie was not for just the children, but also for themselves. Remeber that Walker was a historian.
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Correction: "Fancy" clothes like the ones they were wearing were certainly not made in factories during the era they were copying, so how is it so difficult to believe they didn't have a tailor? They had cows and goats and things for the material.
Joshua Skains
Factories existed in the 1870s.