After a couple of days in bed feeling under the weather I thought I’d watch some mindless shit, so stuck on the telly on Friday night and saw there was a brand new Arthurian Axxxxxx original film starring Dev Patel “The Green Knight”
That’ll do some formulaic, forgettable, action, commercial bullshit..
Nope it’s none of those things.
Tbh I’m not exactly sure what it is, but it’s bloody brilliant. Strangely , it owes a lot to Wes Anderson in terms of cinematography and structure, but completely different tone. It’s gritty, trippy with very little actual sword play, but still gripping. Shades of heart of darkness maybe and explores themes of destiny, betrayal, power and corruption (and the link between these 2) , so pretty standard hero’s journey themes, but presented in a very non-standard way.
I wanted forgettable bullshit and 2 days later I still can’t stop thinking about it. Definitely one to watch a few times to pick everything up.
It’s good to see Auteur stuff like this being made by Axxxxxx and Netflix whether you think the films work or not.
Afterwards I found “Exit Wounds” starring Steve Seagall and DMX on Netflix and that scratched the mindless itch..
