A walker with wet hair and a scruffy beard walking in the mountains.
He staggered, accompanied by only an axe and a fox.
Suddenly, the ridge surprised the hand of the giant.
Grasp the mountain cliffs, borrow the power to go up, the silhouette is fully revealed...
Want to compete with the Tiangong test?
This is the Heavenly Gong Ben Gong!
Attack on Titan?
No, he has a more literary name:
The Green Knight
The Green Knight
Director David Lowey, a regular at the Sundance Film Festival.
A master of "doing subtraction"
The previous work "Ghost Floating Life", only relying on a white sheet, filmed a ghost film in the amazing circle.
Produced by A24, the positioning is extreme, and the style is cold.
Experienced movie fans know more or less that this is a maverick experiment box.
Is the Schrödinger's cat that was put into the box this time dead or alive, good or bad?
Sir takes you on a probe.
01
The film is based on a follow-up to the legend of King Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
The opening scene is a nonsense challenge:
At King Arthur's Christmas feast, a knight in green swung into the round table.
Come up and "ask for death."
Anyone can come up and cut me, cut me and give him the axe; it's okay if you don't win the chop, come to me a year later, let me cut once, and get the knight's glory.
？？？
What is the requirement.
The old knights present did not move, and who knew that the youngest Sir Gawain jumped out.
Alas, youth is grandeur.
Who knows, as soon as he accepted the challenge, the other party directly knelt down and cut with him.
this......
Don't cut white, don't chop.
A knife down, the head is different.
That's it?
Oh, Sir said nonsense.
Three seconds after the head landed on the ground, the green knight stood up in a daze, picked up his head, smiled, and said...
Young man, next year, Lao Tzu is waiting for you.
What does it mean?
Meaning, young Gawain must find the Green Knight next year today and have him cut off his head.
Yes, he really went.
Even more nonsensical things are still on the way.
Gawain meets the woman who seduces him, and the man who wants to exchange items with him.
Eventually, he arrives at the Green Church and meets the Green Knight.
The other party came up and kept the promise and directly cut three axes.
Cut it?
Leave a suspense, in short, it looks like it is not dead.
Bidding farewell to the green knight and returning to the court, he told everyone about his adventures, and the knights agreed that Gao Wen had won the glory for the knights of the Round Table, and the belt given by the hostess became a symbol of purity.
Sir knows you're seeing that too.
What is this story about?
A background:
In the original work, Gawain is the nephew of King Arthur, typical of European wealth and handsomeness, blonde hair and blue eyes.
There are even rumors that he is the prototype of the title "Prince Charming".
△ From Wikipedia
Can't see it.
After all, he's in the movie, it's like this:
Scruffy bearded and drunk, he was woken up by his girlfriend at a brothel on Christmas morning.
He wasn't even white on horses...
The original Gaowen is brave and pious, and volunteers to face the challenge of the Green Knight.
What about him?
People are addicted to food and big.
Facing the green-robed knight who had been killed by the neck, he was shaking and trembling.
The rules of the game were not even understood, when the green knight picked up his head and emphasized the agreed time.
He was dumbfounded on the spot, and his red eyes were about to cry.
What can be done? Rush forward with a hard scalp.
Before leaving, her mother tied a green belt around Gaowen's waist, saying that she would not let him suffer any harm.
Quietly tell you that this belt is always on, anti-demon, anti-evil spirits, anti-spirit creatures.
Commonly known as plug-ins.
△ Mark a key point, at this time Gao Wen does not know, but later to test
But just out of town, the belt was robbed by a small fart.
Only then did it start, landing into a box, and all the equipment was lost.
These include the brave three-piece suit: axe, belt, horse.
It turned out that this was not a big male protagonist who opened and hung, but just a stupid person with a low force value.
And that's not all.
After the looting, the little fart tied his hands and threw him in the forest.
Sir was expecting a reversal, and as a result:
After the camera's 360° clockwise circular motion, the bound Gaowen becomes a white bone.
Gawain is dead.
02
Another background:
Gao Wen's journey is like a journey to learn the scriptures of the "Northern Heavens" to fight monsters and upgrades.
This sutra is the five-star chivalry.
Knighthood, at that time, was the supreme glory of men.
In the Middle Ages, the five-pointed star was used as a Christian symbol to symbolize the five wounds on Christ's body.
In the original poem, the five corners symbolize the five qualities of chivalry: piety, generosity, kindness, chastity, and friendship.
In the film, the five-pointed star necklace worn by King Arthur also hints at this.
Okay, let's look at the second story.
The protagonist is still Gao Wen, or the forest.
The camera moves counterclockwise for a week
Well, not dead.
On Christmas Eve, Gawain coveted pleasure without praying, violating the first article: "piety" faith.
Again at the little boy," he violated the second rule: "Generosity."
There are three more rules in the back, and see how he "breaks the precepts"
Wake up and cut the rope and walk through the forest.
Late at night, go to sleep in a deserted and dilapidated hut.
After a while, he was patted on the shoulder by an Aboriginal beauty.
midnight...... Affair?
Look at this silky position, there must be deception.
It turned out that this was a saint who had lost her head, and asked Gawain to retrieve her head in the pond.
Okay, anyway, the head in this story falls off casually.
Gao Wen was not stupid, and decided to get some rewards before helping.
But the other party is an expert: you are a knight, how can you do good deeds and ask for money?
The third criterion, called "good deeds," is broken again.
Gao Wen jumped off the lake, and the water turned from blue to red.
It is implied that the virgin was severed for rejecting the mad suitor, and the pond was stained red with blood.
It also implies that he himself is getting more and more off the path of taking the scriptures.
After finding the head, the "head" began to speak: The green knight, is someone you know.
Clue 1, get.
Reward for completing missions: Stolen plate axe, get.
Christmas is getting closer and closer, and Gawain continues to be non-stop.
Come to the kasbah for a night.
The kind man told him that there were still four days to go until Christmas, and that he could rest more, and made an agreement:
He gives Gawain the prey he hunts during the day, and Gawain gives whatever the man gets during his break.
This is meeting a noble person.
Not only that, but Gao Wen also has a "windfall"
The deep V temptation of the Lord's Lady.
Damningly, the Lord's Lady not only looked exactly like Gawain's girlfriend.
Also send love books, kisses, make portraits, prepare the overlord hard bow...
You know.
The fourth vow, "chastity," broke the ground.
Only the last one remains.
How will Gawain end?
After escaping from the castle, Gawain encounters the little fox that is close to him, the giants that suddenly appear, and many more heads...
At last.
Finally arriving at the Green Church, the Green Knight awakens, and the green axe of fate finally splits.
For the first time, Gao Wen cried out in tears, saying that he still needed time to do psychological construction.
Knight: One year is not enough?
The second time, the axe was about to fall. He called a halt again and asked:
△ Like you who know that the question is wrong and stubbornly looking for a reason
Knight Speechless: Otherwise?
For the third time, there is no reason and no excuse, and the trial will finally come
stop.
As you may see, the two stories are actually one story.
The only difference is the ending.
Is Gawain dead, or not?
Did he completely crack the guilt and punishment, or did he succeed in counterattacking as a knight?
And also.
Sir knows you're still confused
What does a different ending mean?
03
"The Green Knight" is indeed a work with a threshold.
It is better to say that it is mysterious, or that its form is greater than the kernel.
Sir's look and feel
Photography is truly beautiful.
The director uses a lot of dreamlike photography, as well as many metaphors of mysterious symbols.
Foxes, dead trees, giants, flames, green...
What does this mean?
According to the director' words: this is the "expression of the ambiguity" of human nature in the story.
Sir Translator: Guess what it is.
Sir wasn't going to guess.
In fact, putting aside these mysterious elements, the core of "Green Coat" is not complicated:
Sketch the growth of a knight chosen by fate and see how he achieves success built on lies.
In turn, the dissolution of the sublime is completed in the process.
The knight who is praised and praised is just an ordinary person, and he also has insurmountable human weaknesses.
In particular, the two "circular shots" are meaningful.
The first time I mentioned earlier:
Before the spin, Gawain died; after the spin, Gawain lived again.
The second time at the end of the film.
After Gao Wen escaped and "returned to his hometown", the whole country was in a false prosperity.
King Arthur died of illness and Gawain was crowned.
Let the girlfriend give birth to a son and let his mother and son separate, and marry the princess wife of the right family.
The foreign tribes invaded the territory, and the son rushed to the front line to stain the sand with blood and died in his arms.
A new wife gave birth to a princess, and the royal family added members.
One death and one life, and then reincarnation.
In the second half of his long life, the director only took less than 10 minutes without a single line.
I used that call-back-like circular motion shot again.
The people around him left one by one, and he was still a lonely man who was not worthy of his position.
And in his waist, he also wore the green belt that saved him from injury.
This green belt, which had protected him for most of his life, had become his shackles at this time, and he could not move.
The camera turns, like a rewind.
He was back under the green knight's axe
Will he still escape this time?
Looking around twice, it seems to determine the prosperity and destruction of a kingdom.
But "Green" is not just a grand epic.
Pay attention.
Looking around twice, the lens rotates and both fall to a close-up of the same position.
Gawain's face.
In the original book, every axe cut by the green knight actually has a reason for judgment:
The first two axes that fail are the reward for your two times being seduced by women; the third axe is the punishment for hiding the woman's belt from you.
Sin and punishment are one's destiny.
The close-up in the movie becomes a person's choice when facing fate.
It doesn't matter the family on the shoulders, the crown on the head, and the knighthood code carried on the chest...
Gaze into the depths of the soul.
The question that is constantly swirling within us and cannot be confirmed:
Have I ever had the opportunity to save myself?
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