Actually a religious movie

Percy 2021-12-24 08:01:47

When everything started, there were only people and nature; when the people carrying the cross came, they drove away the infidels.

When the brave Viking warriors lost their original faith, everything changed.

A single-eyed Viking warrior with a mysterious background was carefully imprisoned in a cage by a group of wild warriors. He was raised as a beast, during which only a boy who fed him could approach him. In the fighting arena, the warriors who raised him used his extraordinary bravery to win bets for themselves.
Finally, the leader of another group of wild warriors took a fancy to his extraordinary power and bought him. While being escorted, he took the opportunity to escape and kill everyone. After that, there seemed to be a power in the dark that brought him and the boy who had been following him to a place, which seemed to be a pagan village.
In this place, the one-eyed warrior and the boy met a group of Viking warriors who had already believed in Christianity. This group of warriors had wiped out the village, killed all men and occupied all women. This group of Christian believers are preparing to try their luck in Jerusalem, the holy place in their hearts. They thought that the boy and the "one-eyed" were also Christians, so they asked him to join their ranks.
"One-Eyed" and the boy joined them. They encountered heavy fog on the sea and lost their way. It seemed that the same power had brought them to a new continent.
Everyone in the new continent seemed to be cursed inexplicably, and attacked by local mysterious indigenous warriors, and devout Christian warriors died one after another. In the end, when the Cyclops knew his identity, he walked towards the native warrior categorically. Everyone died, only the boy survived.

PS: At the end of the film, the one-eyed warrior finally reveals his identity. He is the incarnation of the main Nordic god Odin. After being cast aside by humans who believe in Christianity, he can only become a servant of mankind. In the end, after he found a primitive continent with only humans and nature, he returned to the position of God. At the end of the film, the one-eyed warrior throws away the weapon, walks to the indigenous warriors calmly and leads to death. It is the god Odin who sacrificed himself to himself (Nordic mythology records that Odin sacrificed himself to himself. Plot), get rid of the shackles of the flesh and return to the gods.
The whole movie is a mythical fable. It tells the story of Odin, who lost his divine power and memory due to the loss of human faith, became a mortal and finally found his home and returned to the gods. The film is full of anti-war and natural environmentalism spirit (the Nordic land of Christianity is gloomy, depressed, devastated, and full of death. The once glorious Viking warriors are now reduced to evil spirits who only greedy for money and power, plundering and launching wars everywhere. Destroying the world), and has the shadow of anti-Christian (the Crusade is indeed a war of aggression).
The movie is a good movie (the radish and greens have their own love). The filming is very tasteful and memorable, but it is not the taste of the public. The content is too obscure and depressing. There is no commercial taste on the cover. It is estimated that the box office will be very poor.

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Valhalla Rising quotes

  • Hagen - Christian Viking: You promised us riches. And the holy land! But One-Eye took us to hell. And there is no god!

  • Gorm - Christian Viking: Why did I come here One-Eye? What did I have to go through this? Tell me... I have to go back. I have to be with my father. Even if he is dead.

    Kare: Even if he's dead?

    Gorm - Christian Viking: Your sons are dead. And you came here to be with them.