Digging it so far. Love me a bunch of shirtless dudes tripping balls.
I honestly couldn’t get into it :ohnoes: I just do not vibe with that director’s style. I didn’t like The VVitch, and I turned off The Lighthouse after 30 minutes.
My favorite moments of The Northman:
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Willem DaFoe farting in a man’s face
Our hero helping shepherd children into a building that is then set on fire - The hero never repents for this in any way
After escaping with his lover on a boat, she tells him that she’s pregnant. Immediately upon hearing this, our hero decides instead of staying with her to raise their child, to dive off the boat and return to his revenge quest where he then dies.
Also the movie is just fucking Hamlet again
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lmao dudes rock
yeah, almost like people from a thousand years ago had different morals and values or something.
sure but that doesn’t necessarily make for a film I want to watch
a thousand years ago people didn’t believe in germ theory either, and im not lining up to see a movie about the ghosts that make people sick through the water
That’s still a valid reason not to vibe with it though.
Movie is fucking awesome. Immerse yourself in it, qell actually it looks like you finished it - what did you think?
Really enjoyed it. I love that the director hints that the spiritual and mythological elements are just the characters tripping balls. Also, loved that the more spiritual elements form a nice contrast between the reality of what the character is doing and living through with his mythology of himself.
I would say that the magic pretty firmly falls in the magic realism category. As in, it doesn’t matter if it’s “real” or not because it’s presented as real and the characters interpret it that way. Or I’m still misunderstanding magical realism.
I’m not sure, I think there were enough hints in the film that the mythical aspects weren’t real that I feel it’s meant to be a commentary on the characters and their intentions and mental states, rather than a part of the world.
