Notes on "The Green Knight"
Dec. 22nd, 2022 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_los- Finally watched "Green Knight". While the production values are great and the visuals, mood and melange of ambient themes are all poetic, I can't give a shit about this movie or imagine giving one. Deffo one for the Vibes lovers, but for me it was a very 'oh' experience, like "Koyaanisqatsi" Arthuriana. I wouldn't be quite so 'wtf?' if it hadn't been for the off-the-charts hype.
To be honest--and I don't wanna be like this, but--was this *as* hyped as it was because people were taking a culture wars good guys stand? Idk, is it for people who like Euro art house cinema and want their genre-blorbo to have a very serious treatment (and don't remember 1974's "Lancelot du Lac")?
I do think there are maybe just--people in this world who aren't me who don't find "Serial Experiments Lain" a disappointing mess of suggestion that can't commit to and articulate anything definitive about the material it wants to draw into the conversation. And if you like themes that you've thought and read about more deeply than this presented in a cursory and very expensive slideshow, okay. Like what new shit did this make anyone think about in a fresh way? And I don't think you can say, 'oh that's not the task this project is setting itself', I think it's absolutely what the critical conversation has centred on.
Some part of me is like, is the problem meeee, should I really try to connect and understand, but I don’t think I could come to any more definitive understanding of this text that would make me find it valuable. MAYBE you’re supposed to be responding to it more like a filmic poem?
It’s one of those adaptations that’s kind of for no one. Some adaptations demand you know a canon for their effect but then punish you for caring too much about that canon, very ‘it’s not FOR you, critics!!’ People who don’t know this body of work at all won’t know what’s going on half the time. Who the fuck is probably-Merlin? They never say. People who really know this canon and have read a lot about the Romance and masculinity with be like ‘yeah, and?’
Some notes while watching:
- Why is everyone clapping like this beheading was cool rather than uuuuh, dooming his own ass?
- 'Hope you don’t mind mate, we did a bit of a puppet show about your imminent death.'
- Totally fucking weird Irish guy in the woods. What’s the point of that? Just rob his shit, you don’t have to make such a thing of it. Good thing they left him his sword and his cool mustard yellow cape. (They don’t seem very good at robbing? I wouldn’t stroke mens' faces on the job. Keep that to yourself, this is a workplace.)
- 'So there I was, trying to enjoy a nap, and some bitch who CLEARLY had a head was like 'yooo, so do you have like. A swimming certificate?''
- Cdrama watching this like "FINALLY some good fuckin landscape shots."
- You don’t need to stone this fox, he’s just a guy hanging out
- Oh hey, it’s those guys from "Attack on Titan".
- Gawain’s experience of just waaaaaaiting in this chapel is also what happens when you call 111.
To be honest--and I don't wanna be like this, but--was this *as* hyped as it was because people were taking a culture wars good guys stand? Idk, is it for people who like Euro art house cinema and want their genre-blorbo to have a very serious treatment (and don't remember 1974's "Lancelot du Lac")?
I do think there are maybe just--people in this world who aren't me who don't find "Serial Experiments Lain" a disappointing mess of suggestion that can't commit to and articulate anything definitive about the material it wants to draw into the conversation. And if you like themes that you've thought and read about more deeply than this presented in a cursory and very expensive slideshow, okay. Like what new shit did this make anyone think about in a fresh way? And I don't think you can say, 'oh that's not the task this project is setting itself', I think it's absolutely what the critical conversation has centred on.
Some part of me is like, is the problem meeee, should I really try to connect and understand, but I don’t think I could come to any more definitive understanding of this text that would make me find it valuable. MAYBE you’re supposed to be responding to it more like a filmic poem?
It’s one of those adaptations that’s kind of for no one. Some adaptations demand you know a canon for their effect but then punish you for caring too much about that canon, very ‘it’s not FOR you, critics!!’ People who don’t know this body of work at all won’t know what’s going on half the time. Who the fuck is probably-Merlin? They never say. People who really know this canon and have read a lot about the Romance and masculinity with be like ‘yeah, and?’
Some notes while watching:
- Why is everyone clapping like this beheading was cool rather than uuuuh, dooming his own ass?
- 'Hope you don’t mind mate, we did a bit of a puppet show about your imminent death.'
- Totally fucking weird Irish guy in the woods. What’s the point of that? Just rob his shit, you don’t have to make such a thing of it. Good thing they left him his sword and his cool mustard yellow cape. (They don’t seem very good at robbing? I wouldn’t stroke mens' faces on the job. Keep that to yourself, this is a workplace.)
- 'So there I was, trying to enjoy a nap, and some bitch who CLEARLY had a head was like 'yooo, so do you have like. A swimming certificate?''
- Cdrama watching this like "FINALLY some good fuckin landscape shots."
- You don’t need to stone this fox, he’s just a guy hanging out
- Oh hey, it’s those guys from "Attack on Titan".
- Gawain’s experience of just waaaaaaiting in this chapel is also what happens when you call 111.
