re: M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" is actually a solid movie

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that was actually quite genius to have the accents sound bad and inconsistent...the characters themselves are not classically trained actors. if they all had perfect victorian accents it would be fake...they were just normal people...not actors so them affecting an accent would sound bad for the most part.

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This is a good point. I think the accent matter serves as an overall theme of the movie. Namely, they had retreated to this village to try and recreate an idealistic time in history that they think was real. In actuality, that idealistic time is illusory, just like their inability to recreate the way people spoke during that time.

I'm grateful for this thread. The more I think about this movie the more I think that it is not only underrated, but it is also pretty visionary.