Watched The Northman, good movie, some v. good elements to it. But the reaction to the violence and masculinity seem overdone, wasn't particularly extreme in either
But the director is very good at conjuring up people who exist outside the Liberal Mind, and this disturbs critics
But the director is very good at conjuring up people who exist outside the Liberal Mind, and this disturbs critics
You also see this in his movie The Witch, these characters believe and behave in ways total foreign to the 21st century mind
It's much easier for critics to enjoy it w/o internal conflict because they see this as implicit criticism of their most recent enemy, Christianity
It's much easier for critics to enjoy it w/o internal conflict because they see this as implicit criticism of their most recent enemy, Christianity
Maybe it is, I don't know what Eggers believes.
But when his unmodern mindset shifts to pagan Scandos, Modern Man finds it a lot harder to immediately identify friend/enemy
There's a part of this vision that is thrilling, but they are also more troubled by it
But when his unmodern mindset shifts to pagan Scandos, Modern Man finds it a lot harder to immediately identify friend/enemy
There's a part of this vision that is thrilling, but they are also more troubled by it
*Because* it thrills, invigorates, *and* because they don't have the proper antibodies against whatever it is that stirs this impulse in them
So they become guarded. Even though the exact same artistic skills that made The Witch so vivid are what did just that for The Northman
So they become guarded. Even though the exact same artistic skills that made The Witch so vivid are what did just that for The Northman
Maybe the funniest element of this are the repeated criticisms that the plot wasn't complex enough, basically that there weren't enough "twists"
The hero just listened to prophecy, obeyed its wisdom, and... trying to avoid spoilers, attained, arguably, his best possible outcome
The hero just listened to prophecy, obeyed its wisdom, and... trying to avoid spoilers, attained, arguably, his best possible outcome
In other words, a pagan hero lived by pagan beliefs + morals. There was no presence of modern morals to guide him away from this, to a "proper" modern-affirming outcome
Since the movie isn't as extreme as I was told, I think it is *this* that really jarred in the critics' minds
Since the movie isn't as extreme as I was told, I think it is *this* that really jarred in the critics' minds
Being able to create such a realized world is the mark of a good artist. To the critics' credit they largely liked it anywayβ
Largely despite themselves. Because Eggers stripped away so much ideology that all they had to work with was what was on the screen
And they *liked* it.
Largely despite themselves. Because Eggers stripped away so much ideology that all they had to work with was what was on the screen
And they *liked* it.
Exactly what I'm getting at. The idea that there existed, and still exist to this day, people outside their moral framework, always fills them with a dark doubt
The closer the mindset is to theirs, the more they just process it as "satire," "criticism"
To strike at it from a plainer angle:
If the storytelling is from pre-modern values, and modern moralists still find it thrilling despite violating everything they hold to be true
Then there must be something to those values that is valuable, but has been lost
If the storytelling is from pre-modern values, and modern moralists still find it thrilling despite violating everything they hold to be true
Then there must be something to those values that is valuable, but has been lost
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