"Actions have consequences" : definitely this is the leitmotiv of the movie. But to understand this, you need to know a lot of literature and to pay attention.
This movie is good, excellent photography, simple but stunning costumes,minimal and beautiful settings, but actually you can't enjoy the story if you don't know the Arthurian cycle and the Breton myths, or the Celtic Green Man: only if you know about the Breton Sir Gawain you can understand this Gawain, because there are some profound differences between the two, and in those differences is the key to understand the movie, and to enjoy a verywell written screenplay and an excellent direction.
Probably this hermeticism is the setback of this movie, it is demanding to watch and some people would hate the movie or find it boring. But honestly, I think this is a little masterpiece that is going back to the roots of cinema, where you don't need to create a pop standard plot, but you need to tell a story, in an interesting perspective, without considering if it would be understood.
I know this is a pretty snob idea, but hey, there are tons of Marvel movies to watch and copycat rom-com that have all the same story. For once, let a good movie take the stage and praise it, or at least leave it be, just let it reach the right audience without flunking it.
My advise is to watch it or rewatch it after reading the original story: you will find a noble Gawain, incarnation of all the highest moral values of the knight of king Arthur. And then this Gawain, young, timid, that will fail all the moral challenges along his path, being the symbol of the human condition, but eventually finding a way to redeem himself. I'm pretty sure you will find this movie an interesting gem.
Review by fcknrckstarBlockedParent2022-03-03T10:46:29Z
"Actions have consequences" : definitely this is the leitmotiv of the movie. But to understand this, you need to know a lot of literature and to pay attention.
This movie is good, excellent photography, simple but stunning costumes,minimal and beautiful settings, but actually you can't enjoy the story if you don't know the Arthurian cycle and the Breton myths, or the Celtic Green Man: only if you know about the Breton Sir Gawain you can understand this Gawain, because there are some profound differences between the two, and in those differences is the key to understand the movie, and to enjoy a verywell written screenplay and an excellent direction.
Probably this hermeticism is the setback of this movie, it is demanding to watch and some people would hate the movie or find it boring. But honestly, I think this is a little masterpiece that is going back to the roots of cinema, where you don't need to create a pop standard plot, but you need to tell a story, in an interesting perspective, without considering if it would be understood.
I know this is a pretty snob idea, but hey, there are tons of Marvel movies to watch and copycat rom-com that have all the same story. For once, let a good movie take the stage and praise it, or at least leave it be, just let it reach the right audience without flunking it.
My advise is to watch it or rewatch it after reading the original story: you will find a noble Gawain, incarnation of all the highest moral values of the knight of king Arthur. And then this Gawain, young, timid, that will fail all the moral challenges along his path, being the symbol of the human condition, but eventually finding a way to redeem himself. I'm pretty sure you will find this movie an interesting gem.