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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
frustrating. to the film's credit i think it's frustrating on purpose. it feels like a whole film about people who are so close to solving the big issue and then fuck it up because they can't get over themselves. it's so fucking bleak, not because the evil is impossible to deal with but because humans are hard to work with (especially those brought up in the individualist, heteropatriarchy present in the movie). the real evil throughout the entire movie occurs when people refuse to listen to each other. the other real evil is that fuckin dog.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
during the emotional core of the film, the meeting with st. winifred, gawain asks winifred this:
"my lady, are you real or are you a spirit?"
she replies,
"is there a difference?"
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the green knight is a haunted film, where legends such as st. winifred enters through the pores of this story, confounding gawain and the viewer alike. a fox speaks. giants stomp through a valley. none of it is explained nor explored in depth. they vanish into the…