Hmm..you are talking letting the view "change the values in the Model".

I thought "the view was not allowed to talk to the model, instead it had to be fed pre-digested info by the controller" made it clear that I was talking about updating the view from the model, not vice versa.

In MVC, the controller initiates changes in the model, not the view. However, the view updates itself from the model.

Whether that's good or bad is a different story, but that's how MVC is defined.