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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1783814" data-attributes="member: 259">The Other Librarian got it right: &quot;About tastes, there is no disputing&quot; is a slightly more literal translation. &quot;Hey, whatever floats your boat&quot; also captures the sentiment <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. It's a Latin proverb that I like a lot.&nbsp;Here goes: [spoiler]The movie looks like it's set in a nonspecific, highly religious community in some era before electricity or steam engines--maybe the seventeenth or eighteenth century America. The movie opens with a child being buried beneath a tombstone dated something like 1879; I forget the exact date. The village is menaced by scary hedgehogmen that live in the surrounding woods, so nobody leaves. &nbsp;But it turns out that the village is actually set in modern times, founded by a fantastically wealthy guy as a utopian community, and the monsters are just the adults in the village dressing up in order to scare the youngsters so that they never venture into the woods and discover the big bad evil world out there. &nbsp;The elders' decision not to bring any medicine with them when they founded the village plays a key plot role; their decision not to bring modern tools or supplies of raw iron ore, so that their current tools ought to be worn out by now, does not.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 1783814, member: 259"] [b]The Other Librarian[/b] got it right: "About tastes, there is no disputing" is a slightly more literal translation. "Hey, whatever floats your boat" also captures the sentiment :). It's a Latin proverb that I like a lot. Here goes: [spoiler]The movie looks like it's set in a nonspecific, highly religious community in some era before electricity or steam engines--maybe the seventeenth or eighteenth century America. The movie opens with a child being buried beneath a tombstone dated something like 1879; I forget the exact date. The village is menaced by scary hedgehogmen that live in the surrounding woods, so nobody leaves. But it turns out that the village is actually set in modern times, founded by a fantastically wealthy guy as a utopian community, and the monsters are just the adults in the village dressing up in order to scare the youngsters so that they never venture into the woods and discover the big bad evil world out there. The elders' decision not to bring any medicine with them when they founded the village plays a key plot role; their decision not to bring modern tools or supplies of raw iron ore, so that their current tools ought to be worn out by now, does not.[/spoiler] [/QUOTE]

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