The damn village He left exactly by John Carpenter 30 years ago, on April 28, 1995. Still today, it’s One of the most underrated films of Great American Director, based on his nature as a remake, and also of the tone that is certainly different from his best known works. But still, to look at it better, for themes and meanings, This horror sci-fi is anything but negligible.
A remake that can walk on your legs
The damn village It was born strangely in some ways or at least, so it may seem at first sight. The Master of Horror has signed with the Universal A somewhat Capestro contract in a certain sense happened at the moment that a name had made and understood the successes of criticism and the public. Four films, but The agreement is now a cage for himPerhaps it might also be for Universal, but few expect a remake of the 1960 classic from Wolf Rilla, from the novel of John Wyndham. Few except him of course. It had certainly been a great success at the time, from criticism and the public. Carpenter saw that twelve -year -old filmHe continued to hold in his memory to never get out of it again, as happens at that age and then he actually gives a license to the screenwriter David Himmelstein To be loyal to you.
Himmelstein will stay, will do what is being asked. Carpenter ensures changing the endAnother element that makes him his last, real, great creative act on the big screen. Absolutely atypical film, The damn village It is less violent, less irru comfort and visual than Thing O Halloween O They live. But it is certainly not that false step, that superficial work, as many will define it at that time. On the contrary. Exactly thirty years after the debut in the Chamber, of that April 28, 1995, this film seems to us as Simply different from style and naturebut incredibly topical and “tipsarian” for themes and meanings, for the intelligence with which carpenter is linked (not only at the Californian location) to his Fogbefore that Small town that looks like an America mirror.
Midwich, small port cityFrom those where everyone knows everything about everyone. All residents sell during a kind of city festival. When they resume the senses, they discover that a dozen women are pregnant. But from whom? How did it happen? When they come to the world, Children are apparently only like this. They move in pairs, have white skin and hair, an already mature spirit and immense telepathic forces, the eyes become burning tizzoni when they use it. It happens when they feel threatened or hindered e Everyone who places himself in the middle is killed For induced suicide. They are ruthless. Only small David (Thomas Covers), who lost his “companion” at birth, seems empathetic, sensitive, without the ruthlessness of others, so that they are marginalized. Mara (Lindsey Huan) The group of children is the most ruthless, the most energetic.
Daughter of the doctor Alan Chapee (Christopher Reeve), forced his mother to commit suicide, and the leader of that group will prove. The damn village He shows us a world in the grip of a real invasion, the same forces are unable to stop those little diabolical beings, the same applies to the prayers of Father George (Mark Hamill). John Carpenter follows the original film, but then he will let it go And he leads us to a path in which the concept of individualism and that of loneliness interpenetrate. There is a clear, linear and coherent apocalyptic tone that crosses the entire film, In fact a story about impotenceAbout humanity that tries to stop the most ruthless and cold part of themselves. The efforts of the scientist, Dr. Susan Verner (Kirstie Allen), The solution comes from Jill’s love (Linda Kozlowski), The mother of David, the real axis that the whole story revolves around.
A story about the birth of postmodern individualism
Carpenter, also author of the soundtrack together with Dave DaviesChoose per un’atmosphere in whom feeling of oppression, of constant restlessnessis gradually increased by the sudden eruptions of violence, by the cruelty that those small beings control adults who try to stop or reason. Those children are nothing but the symbol of urgent refusal in the west of concept of community, of altruism. The Berlin Wall has fallen, the USSR is over, The third way Imperaaims to create mediation between neo -liberalism and social democracy. But the only result, already visible then, is that of the appearance of A selfishness, from a “everywhere around you”That will be the door to insulation. Only four years later it comes out The Matrixwho will speak to the same problem in technocratic terms.
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