A film that revolves around the head being chopped off. . . "To be or not to be" is Shakespeare's active interrogation, and To behead or try not to behead or To behead early or try to behead late is the most tangled thing for most ordinary people except for the consideration of suicide.
People are dying. The screenwriter and director should have chosen such a heavy and deep theme. The protagonist, like most of us, would suddenly act as a hero when we were young, regardless of life and death; but more often he heard the green knight holding his head and laughing wildly and riding his horse away, returning to rationality and death. The embarrassment of being forced on the road by fear and desire to live. After all, the road of life is slow. If it wasn't for the moment of being a young hero and dying as a hero, the last road is mostly rational and the older you are, the more you will be afraid of death and more cowardly.
As a knight, honor and commitment must be maintained. It is a hero for a while, and in the end, in the heart of the city, from the king to the other elderly knights of the round table to the commoners outside the castle, I was forced to go on the road with the mentality of watching the excitement. At the beginning of the road, only the back Toddlers The little ones chased for a while.
Children and young people always have heroism in their hearts, which may be "uncertainty about their manhood". The older you get, the more timid you are from the king to a table of older knights, but the queen who is willing to be possessed by the king to read the war book is more bold.
Gawain has been cowardly and courageous along the way, loves and hates, grows up after being deceived, saves people (a headless female corpse, and a headless...) and is ignored by (the giant), and has no grievances with the couple in the castle. At the castle, how to face the host and the hostess and how to deal with it are all entangled, and there is no solution between the two men and one woman (and the old woman who seems to be blind but actually knows everything). But he couldn't bear to be beheaded so early by the green knight, so he still took the green belt. Before being cut off, he still shrank his head and cowardly several times, and finally fled back in despair.
It was a shame, but the old king was about to return to the west. Not only did he not execute Knight Gawain, but instead passed the throne to him as a new king. However, fate did not make him happy for too long. First, he died in the battle with the neighboring country, the only heir prince, and then he was hit by a flying stone in the abdomen after breaking the castle gate. Green sausage (or that green belt? Or both ?), the head fell again in an instant.
After escaping and returning from the Hulk Tree Man, this life has passed very quickly, like a dream of Huangliang (I feel that this is how the screenwriter and director dealt with it, indicating that Zhuang Zhou dreamed of butterflies and Huangliang Yimeng, and decided to do it and the life would pass quickly. Personally, I think it's not that the rhythm of the film is not good, but that it is deliberately done to express the theme narrative and plot), and it is difficult to escape in the end. After simply dreaming about the truth and falsehood of Huang Liang, seeing that the axe was spared and living the rest of his life, the result seems to be even more miserable and even more despised (especially after the death of his son, the commoners outside the castle are despised and humiliated by him, and some people have I don't hesitate to be beheaded because of this, and I'm discussing active beheading or passive beheading...), no longer shrinking from the green knight's axe.
People are all going to die, sooner or later. If you know that because you are cowardly for a while, you will be so humiliated and miserable for the rest of your life. Maybe people will see it clearly and be a lot braver. The axe swung by the green giant may mean that people cannot Escape from fate. Instead of struggling, after seeing the future clearly, they also calmly accept the fate to maintain the honor.
That's why there is chivalry, why there are warrior heroes who sacrifice their lives and die generously.
Since everyone will die sooner or later, the meaning of the screenwriter and director is obvious, and the future of stealing life has been seen. Why not accept fate and face it calmly. After all, people in the East and the West have pointed out this point all the time, and the poems praising heroes have been sung to this day. Just as Caesar will be praised, Qu Yuan will also be praised and loved.
After all, Zhuangzi wrote more than 2,000 years ago, "If you have more men, you will be more afraid. If you are rich, you will have more troubles. If you live a long life, you will be more humiliated." This is the tragic future that Knight Gawain saw.
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