{"id":14520,"date":"2021-10-15T20:01:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14520"},"modified":"2021-10-15T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T00:01:57","slug":"the-green-knight-2021-david-lowery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14520","title":{"rendered":"The Green Knight (2021, David Lowery)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dev Patel’s finest role, in a pleasingly confounding movie. Mostly grey-brown tale of a knight trying to prove himself by journeying to fulfill a bargain with an immortal. I didn’t realize how much of the movie would be the journey, since you only hear about the bookending scenes.<\/p>\n

Dev P.<\/em>
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There’s silver plate photography, giants, a digital-ass fox. The king and queen are played by Prometheus<\/a><\/em> costars Sean Harris and Kate Dickle, and his witchy mum is Mississippi Masala<\/em> star Sarita Choudhury. Barry Keoghan ambushes him and steals his horse. There’s a whole ending where Dev becomes king, but he also died earlier, so I lost track of what’s real.<\/p>\n

Barry K.<\/em>
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Adam Nayman in The Ringer<\/a> calls out “its self-aggrandizing style and prepackaged gravitas.”<\/p>\n

Lowery’s fable about a half-human, half-arboreal creature patiently cultivating a lethal debt against a crumbling civilization vibrates with a certain apocalyptic anxiety, one that’s been color-coded for maximum effect. Stoic, implacable, and only resigned to defeat in Round 1 because he knows his revenge is impending, the Green Knight … terrifies as a figure out of a woodcut … but he’s also an avatar of climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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