Based on the medieval legend "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", the film tells the story of King Arthur (played by Sean Harris) holding a Christmas banquet in his court. A ghostly green knight came to challenge the knights of the round table: who would dare to cut off his head on the spot, and let him return an axe a year later. Wang's nephew - Gawain (played by Dev Patel) accepts the challenge and chops off the green knight's head. The still-living body picked up the head and returned to the green church. A year later, Gao Wen made an appointment to find the green knight...
This 14th-century poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is said to be one of the must-read 'texts' for English literature classes.
There are too many film and television works about King Arthur, and his mythological background (witchcraft, wizards, magic, monsters, etc.) all give the director a lot of play. But if you expect this "Green Knight" to have the gripping plot of science fiction films such as "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter", you will be disappointed!
Actors are all temporary choices, but if you choose an Indian actor to play the male lead (although he is competent), you should be mentally prepared that the movie will not follow the real history and the cards (this also explains the scenes, costumes, etc. unrestrained). The pace isn't unbearably slow, but rather than a gripping plot, the movie is more about creating a captivating atmosphere. What Gawain saw and heard on his journey seems to be the focus of the film.
However, there are many plots in the film that are vague, paradoxical, ambiguous, and convoluted, which should be obscure to viewers who are accustomed to commercial blockbusters such as superheroes and who are too lazy to think. The way the movie is made like this is actually to let the audience interpret the story (according to interviews with the directors and actors: they also have their own opinions on the true meaning of the film's ending!), but it also blurs the audience's vision, without any The focus of the story is not worth the loss.
The movie is full of dazzling plots. One of the paragraphs: Gawain was robbed by a group of ruffians in the wild and tied to the grass. The camera watched the robbers leave from Gawain's perspective, and the camera slowly circled the forest. When he returned to the male protagonist, he was shocked to see that the male protagonist had turned into bones! ! Perhaps it can be said that from that moment in the movie, everything that happened was just the subconscious of the male protagonist?
Barry Keoghan (Druig in "The Eternals") plays the leader of the ruffian robber. He doesn't have a lot of scenes, but it's one of the funniest characters in the whole movie (he's a good actor!).
There are many examples of good actors in the movie playing soy sauce, and I feel that it is a bit of a waste of talent. Alicia Vikander Alicia Vikander plays two roles: the lover started by the male lead and the sexual fantasy of the male lead - the Countess. Although Yiren looks sweet, she has a flat body and is not a sex bomb. I don't understand why she was forced to wear a super low V costume, which made the male protagonist get wet (!!!). In the end, I was afraid that the audience would not know, and asked Yiren to explain the meaning of green in large sections (for green, men know best, thank you).
How can the male protagonist He Dehe win so many roles? In the end, even the Baron (played by Joel Edgerton) also had a bad opinion of him. The scene of a man and a man kissing affectionately was really a bargain of the fashion trend. It seems that there must be such a scene in recent movies. is enough in? !
Many plots also seem to be dispensable: the male protagonist's witchcraft mother (the movie seems to imply that she summoned the green knight? Is she the mastermind behind everything? Just to correct her useless son?), headless The scene of the female ghost (the male protagonist sneaked into the lake for her to look for his head, which should reflect the fact that he cut off the head of the green knight), and the encounter with the giant (a hurried scene, there is no further text). Is the movie about a mother's love for her son, or the story of a boy who grows into a man? It seems to say it all, but it seems to say nothing!
In fact, the filming of the movie is not bad: exquisite photography beauty, costume design (although I disagree), this kind of self-confidence and pretending to be deep, it should be very suitable for literary and young people. Oscar's road should not be far away! !
7.5/10
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