Kamangir (Archer)

Last night, I was watching “The Village”. It is a famous movie about a village of people living in the eighties-style environment surrounded by woods. In the first ten minutes of the movie, a mixture of elegant music and deliberately composed scenes tells us the story of them. These people believe that the woods are occupied by red-wearing cruel creatures which will not tolerate human-beings invading their territory. So, while avoiding to enter the woods, the villagers guard their village at night by standing on top of watchtowers wearing amber yellow suits.

The story continues with a blind girl falling in love with a silent brave boy which is always insisting to the elderlies of the village that the creatures will not harm him, because he has no bad intention for them. The harmony starts to fade down when we realize that a girl which runs in plains and chases others could not be that blind. Actually, I was thinking maybe she is not blind but is holding that stick because of having a problem in her legs. When the girl’s brother stabs the boy, the story experiences a peak. Regretfully, it starts to fall down after wise.
To save the boy, the only way is to bring some medicine from “the towns”. A name we hear of frequently during the story as being filled with mean people. The cliche continues when the girl asserts that she is going to pass the woods and her father reveals the secret that these stories were all made by him and the elderlies. So, the time zone changes. We are in the middle nineties and these people have left the town because of experiencing problems there; one has lost a wife, the other one got shot. They met each in a common consultant’s office and made this decision. And lets forget that they do not seem that old for raising children in the newly-made village and to spread the rumor.
The girl goes to woods. There she survives deadly accidents and with all surprise meets with the red creature. The story informs us that he is the bad brother trying to stop his sister. The girl meets a handsome reserve keeper which sneaks the drugs in front of his furious boss. At the end of the movie it seems that the elderlies decide to continue the story.

This situation reminds me of all my experiences when a very briliant idea is seem to be forged to make a source of entertainment, and obviously money. I see Harry Potter and Star Wars in the same category. the group of poets who went to Hollywood and tried to cast their idea to gain a few million dollars. It is somehow insluting to me because of the time I spend for the thing.
I was reading the book “The Importance of Being Famous” by “Maureen Orth”. There was a nice quote in the section about “Madonna”. The man in charge of the publishing house which printed “Sex”, Madonna’s “masterpiece”, says “Madonna is not ashamed of her sexuality and tries to demystify it for us” he continues “and that is something profitable, too”. I suggest reading that book, specially the section about Michele Jackson.