David Lowery’s The Green Knight, opening theatrically in North American theaters beginning Thursday night courtesy of A24, is precisely the movie you think it is.
, opening theatrically in North American theaters beginning Thursday night courtesy of A24, is precisely the movie you think it is. If you’ve seen any of Lowery’s prior naturalistic supernatural gems , you know that this isn’t precisely. The film runs 125 minutes, and from what I gather, it’s an intentionally more extended cut than what was intended to premiere at the 2020 SXSW.
Loosely based on the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” our adventure concerns the young nephew of King Arthur himself who is in good standing with his royal kin but yearns to prove himself worthy of knighthood and the abstract notions of honor that go with it. An opportunity arises on Christmas Eve when Arthur and his knights are confronted by a tree-like creature who wishes to “play a game.
The majority of the film concerns Gawain honoring his obligation to travel to the creature’s abode and meet his fate. The lush, atmospheric and oppressively foggy adventure film is faithful enough to the source material to please “fans” while still offering its share of surprises to the faithful. Alicia Vikander plays two roles, portraying Gawain’s love interest and the wife of an hospitable lord . She makes every attempt to get under the would-be knight’s armor.
Without drawing undue attention, casting a guy who looks like Dev Patel is a solid example of letting an underrepresented demographic relish an old-school Hollywood heroic lead. It’s also used to justify further Gawain’s desire to be seen as an equal among Arthur’s knights. It adds to his feeling that he must be twice as heroic to earn his spot among the knights in a time when those not aligned with nobility were doomed to, at best, sustenance-level existences.
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