A one-eyed Viking warrior was imprisoned in a cage and regarded as a beast fighting with others. After he escaped, he took a boy and embarked on a journey to find Jerusalem with a group of Viking warriors who had converted to Christianity. However, the fog on the sea led them to an unknown forest land, where the Vikings died one after another, leaving only the boy.
This is the Danish film "Valhalla Rising", Valhalla is the residence of the dead Viking warrior in Norse mythology. The film is not wonderful, but it has an appeal. The plot is dull and flat, the characters are dull and dull, but the bloody killing scene adds a little color to the film. Confused while watching, still puzzled after reading.
The one-eyed warrior may represent Odin's personification power, or may be just an ordinary martial Viking. In the cruel fighting, the blood of the enemy splashed all over his body, but in his dream, above his scarlet face, was the drifting black cloud and the misty vast sky. Other nightmares that foreshadow the future also appeared in the dreams of the Cyclops. He saw his death and rebirth.
A thousand years ago, when Christianity invaded Scandinavia, the Vikings bowed their knees to Jesus, and the pagan civilization was abandoned. The Vikings abandoned their gods, and nature tragically abandoned them. The fog and dead land on the sea is not the curse of the boy, but the sin of the betrayer.
According to Viking history, beginning in the tenth century, the Nordic people sailed to Iceland and Greenland, and some of them continued to travel west to Newfoundland in North America. Then the Viking warrior lost in the fog in the film should belong to this type of voyager. The dead area covered by forest swamps and rocks is the island of Newfoundland called "Vinland" by the Vikings. At this moment, the Vikings and the local Indians were engaged. At the end of the film, a group of shirtless, yellow-skinned Indians stood on the rock, and they killed the one-eyed Viking warriors who were willing to martyrs.
The Cyclops put down his weapon, walked into the Indian crowd, raised his head slightly, and permanently closed his eyes. He saw himself immersed in the water, sinking into the depths. This self-destructive choice should be to abandon oneself in order to protect the boy from harm. So when the Indians were gone, only the boy stood by the sea.
The penis-like pile of stones built by the Cyclops may symbolize the ancient Norse script. Those who use this word overnight can find pagan gods.
That boy may stay where the samurai died, or may sail back to the original place. As long as he survives, the pagan civilization of Northern Europe will resurrect, just like the title of the movie: Valhalla, Rising!
The movie should be viewed as a landscape. With its deep and gloomy picture, any screenshot can be applied to the black metal album cover.
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