The information is based on the true story of the last battle sentence in medieval France.
After Jean de Carrouge (Matt Damon) wife Marguerite (Judy Comer) accuses Jacques Le Gerry (Adam Delivert) of rape, the knight Joan de Carrouge initiates a duel against his former friend Jacques Le Gris.
The film uses a Rashomon-like approach, using the perspective of each of the three people to tell the rape case.
There is no qualitative difference in the 3 renditions, no one denies the rape in their own vision, the difference is only a glorification of the respective acts other than rape. So I think maybe it's too simple, so I only used 3 repetitions of content to make up time, but it's not necessary.
Of course, we should not focus our attention on the Rashomon technique, but we should see other things that the story wants to represent.
In the French Middle Ages, the status of women was very low, whether Caruzh was true love or something else, for Margaret it was nothing more than a property of his, a commodity, a political marriage for the sake of her own territory.
So there is no French romance at all, no desperate struggle for love. The final duel was only for Caruzh's own face, his own dignity.
And Jacquelegri, from the whole incident, is completely a villain, according to the current parlance, against the will of women is rape. No matter how much you feel like you love each other, Margaret doesn't have any expression of that from beginning to end. And in the end, it was also for his own face that he did not admit it to being killed. Then die.
But on the other hand, Jacquel Gerry still has the ability to work, help the lord to collect debts, sort out the accounts, do a well-organized, overtime, is simply an excellent employee of the enterprise now.
So on the other hand, if a person is very good at work, can he make up for the lack of personality? From the stars we see cheating on now, that must be impossible. But in wartime, those disobedient veteran generals, like Patton, can fight is the king. If a general kills a small soldier by mistake, but is a victorious general, will the emperor depose him because of this? Zhang Fei often beat soldiers, unlike Liu Bei's brother. So in fact, whether a person can offset his merits or not depends on how big his merits are.
Withdrawing a little farther, the film is worth recalling at the end, after Caruzh killed Jacleregre, everyone's reaction was not immediately thunderous congratulations and cheers.
Needless to say, the lord was his brainsman and his right and left arm, and it was a pity that the reckless and disobedient Caruzh was killed. And others, judging from all aspects of the film, almost no one likes Caruzh.
For Margaret's girlfriend, I also hope that Caruzh will fail, otherwise how will he face Margaret in the future? But how many mistakes did her girlfriend make? People are just telling the truth, giving others a basis for a comprehensive analysis, and they should not hide events that may have an impact on the trial because they are girlfriends.
For the king, that was even more inappropriate, just a pastime after tea. The queen probably thought it was too cold.
In the end, the people cheered, but what was it for? I think they just saw a guy who won a fight, and that guy was a warrior who could protect themselves when they needed to. Or seeing the king's approval of him, it is always right to follow the leader's approval. Or maybe you're just happy with the hilarity.
How many people cheered for Margaret's proof? I guess no one cares at all.
Margaret and her husband, Caruzh, looked at each other for a long time before they came together to accept the cheers of the people, and when they embraced, there was no joy or excitement at all. So seeing the end, thinking about Margaret is also quite pitiful, winning the case, but losing a lot.
Fortunately, her husband died in battle within a few years, and when she became a rich wife, she did not expect that there were aristocrats in that era who did not want everything for love. It will be hundreds of years before the real King Edward VIII of England, who does not want the throne for love, will appear, and then the status of women will be improved.
The little pervert has finally grown into a movie heroine, which is really worth congratulating, but unfortunately, it is not as cute as in "Kill Eve".