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The following scene is one of the most moving I have seen in a movie.
In the 2004 movie “The Village,” Covington is a small village that is nearly perfect, except that it is surrounded by woods said to be inhabited by deadly beasts. As long as all villagers remain in the village, everyone will be safe. The blind heroine, Ivy Walker, and the hero, Lucius Hunt, have declared their intent to marry. Everyone is happy for them except “the village idiot,” Noah Percy. Percy visits Lucius in his home. As Lucius begins to explain about different kinds of love, Noah stabs him. Ivy discovers Lucius nearly dead. Ivy, later, approaches her dad and pleads for his permission to let her help save Lucius, who is dying. She tells her father, "I'm in love with him; he's in love with me. If he dies, all that is left to me would die with him." Ivy asks permission to do the unthinkable. Though blind, she wants to leave the security of the village and cross the forbidden woods, though deadly beasts inhabit them. She is willing to cross the woods to enter the towns she has been told are full of danger. There, she will find the medicine to help save her beloved, Lucius. Ivy sets out with two male companions, who both abandon her early to return to the village. She continues the journey alone and makes her way to the outskirts of the village. There she finds the medicine and returns to the village.
M. Night Shyamalan has given us a scene reminiscent of the teaching on Agape love, of Divine Love, as taught in the New Testament.
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1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 14.1Pursue love… (I Corinthians 13.1-14.1, ESV)
A young man visited with his Pastor. He said, “Pastor, I get depressed every time you preach about the Love of God. I can never love with that kind of love.” “Well said,” replied the Pastor, “admitting you can never love like that is a good place to begin learning how to let God love through you the way only God can love.”
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