The Green Knight

The Green Knight's attempts to blend a young man's personal reckonings and psychic confrontations with Lowery's go-for-broke stylings feel less virtuously enigmatic than flat and disjointed in their opaque graspings at profundity.

I will always argue that the screen is a very different medium from the page, and that film should be judged as a different medium, but this film version fails...

The beauty of nature captured by carefully constructed camera work with poignant editing can only last so long.

The cinematography and performances are quite commendable. The premise is interesting. The pacing, although it tries to be innovative, is its main weakness.

Movies can be artsy without being absolutely insufferable to sit through. This is a waste of two hours

I was torn on this one - looked stunning, was beautifully acted and made, but ultimately I also found it a bit of a slog.

The Green Knight manages to be as visceral as it is beautiful—an oceanic film, gliding with ease through different realms: individual psychology, history, and myth. It accomplishes the impressive feat of working within the classical framework of the hero’s journey and its clear-cut narrative structure, while leading you through the equivalent of a psychedelic experience—one that still makes clear sense (not all such journeys do). Based on audience reactions, my guess is that many expected a film that would make them feel invincible, as hero narratives so often do. The Green Knight refuses that closure, offering us a vulnerable hero, an undefined ending, and sharp questions about so-called great men— their impostures, their betrayals that so often made them “great.” In the end, it feels like a meditation on powerful and vulnerable masculinity, which is both the film’s greatest strength and perhaps why it didn't sit so well with some audiences. As a woman, I found myself somewhat an outsider peeking in—sometimes delightfully taken by the joy of being invited, sometimes estranged, as the film spoke from a place quite different from my own. The Green Knight is a movie for people who want to see, feel, and think. I guess not all people do.

Even though some scenes drag on, like the beginning of the journey to the Green Chapel, the surrealism of the film makes it a unique experience. The lighting, the use of colors, the design of the Green Knight, and the quality of the shots demonstrate David Lowery's talent for visual storytelling. The color green is present in every scene, contrasted by the red of flames, blood, and faces. The color gold is the only color that replaces green in a few scenes, bathing King Arthur during the Christmas banquet or highlighting Sir Gawain when he succeeds in a chivalrous challenge. Each scene contains magnificent images that could be transformed into paintings. I loved Dev Patel in this film. He is very credible in the role of a young adult who never feels up to the task and does nothing to remedy it. The film mixes an existential crisis with the struggle of a young man who wants to become a knight without having the virtues. Each scene and each line of dialogue comment on one of these two stories, but never form a very harmonious blend. The film was difficult for me to understand on my first viewing. But after the second time, I was really able to appreciate the film and understand the meaning of each surreal scene. Read more on my Substack: https://lennycritiques.substack.com/p/the-green-knight-2021-is-there-any

Filme horivel, não dá pra entender nada, não promete muito e entrega nada

The visuals and set were cool, but other than that it had a weak storyline. It was hard to follow.