Sep 4, 2022
Wait a second...you shoot a film in Ireland, talk a lot about the glorious Irish scenery in interviews...and then you cast exactly two Irish actors, one of whom is a trophy wife in an arranged marriage in an ending that’s explicitly viewed, in text, as Gawain abandoning his morals and the path of “goodness” and the other of whom’s an opportunistic scavenger who fondles the heterosexual hero, robs him, and then leaves him to die?
#for what it's worth there's a lot of the casting i DO like#i think it was good to have a film that disrupted the idea of whiteness as a default in the middle ages#but i also think the film fell into the trap of being more enamoured with the Irish landscape than the people#which is a problem that people have had since...well....as long as the English have been interacting with Irelan#*Ireland
