The Rare Stream of Consciousness Film "The Knights of the Holy Grail"

Eriberto 2022-01-16 08:01:30

After watching it, the mood is not good at all. Recently, the mood of watching movies is the lowest (who will comfort me...The protagonist is empty, broken, confused, and cold-eyed. It seems that he has everything but nothing, a walking dead with no soul lost. It won’t take long to live like this and it will be completely depressed. It is estimated that Bell’s acting is also very painful.
Those scenery, those empty shots, were taken by Wes Bentley to travel back to "American Beauty", so beautiful.
Speaking of actors. I have to say that Bell is powerful. You can hold the audience only by passing through the crowd quietly. Many familiar faces are also found in the film. The
film is very similar in form to "Broken Tower", but the chapters are clear, but you don't know what it means...extremely stream of consciousness. The content can be called the modern version of "The Seventh Seal", philosophical and profound If you think about it carefully, you’ll find that airplanes appear in almost every chapter. Are they just airplanes by chance, or have other representative meanings? Or airplanes are the inspectors of God? Referencing meaning, I am afraid that everyone has an interpretation by everyone. Because the director is so low-key, the viewers can only guess for themselves, and other images such as road and water also appear. I
just don’t understand how such a strong artistic film can be named such a commercial blockbuster... Almost. Because the title directly sentenced to death...

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Knight of Cups quotes

  • Nancy: You're still the love of my life. Should I tell you that?

  • Karen: [dancing in a night club in a sexy outfit] You live in a little fantasy world, don't you ?

    Rick: [watching her] Are you ?

    Karen: Yes...

    [smiles]

    Karen: Because it's so much more fun...

    Rick: Enjoy yours ?

    Karen: [she nods smiling] Changes every day... I can be whatever I wanna be... Don't forget that... You can be whoever you want to be...

    [laughs, kisses him, smiles]

    Karen: You can be an asshole. You can be a saint...