The Village but with a door

In this movie Night once again draws the parallel to america as a whole being a Village post 9/11 [in the head of J Doe that is].

he models it on The Cove itself and locates it right there AT The Cove making a housing complex called The Cove where ALL the action takes place.

BUT one side is "open" - however not to a street etc but to what is almost a jungle, mysterious as the Woods in The Village, and of course there are "nasties" in there to entice the people to stay IN.

As in Signs the nasties are being delivered by TV [Mr Leeds, the name itself being a clue, is watching Iraq War on CNN] and we see the people hiding from their pasts, including Mr Heep himself - see conversation between Heep and Leeds.

we only see one person enter and that is only from the gate itself and not beyond. Night of course kills him off as a critic is not welcome anywhere.

we don't see anyone go out to work during the day so once again we have The Village [Stockholm Syndrome] mentality and the ONLY "thing" [Story] coming to help comes via the pool, which is very clever - and departs by air.

the message is the people ARE free to come and go but prefer to cower in the Cove with the security of familiarity.

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