The film "The Rise of Valhalla" is actually a mythology under the realist system. The film mainly revolves around a Valhalla in Denmark. The story frame process tells that a single-eyed warrior with supernatural power has been living a life without freedom in captivity. On the way to a transfer, the warrior killed the kidnapper who had been guarding him with iron rods and chains and then searched for the holy place under the follow of a strange boy. On the way, I met some people who believed in Christ and discovered an unknown continent after going through an endless sea of fog. As the secrets of the unknown continent were exposed, the people who believed in Christ were cursed to death one after another, and finally the one-eyed warrior also discovered his true identity. The film is filled with dark tones, and it can even be said to be abstract. It is difficult for most people to understand. The main reason is that the theme story to be conveyed by the film is unheard of in many people's eyes, so that it is difficult for the general mainstream public to understand this. A film in the myth story category that seems to be abstract and simple in nature.
The fascinating opening of "The Rise of Valhalla" such as "When it all begins, only man and nature" and other vague translation sentences directly left the audience of the movie-watching audience puzzled. Then there is the circulation of characters among the hills, forests and hills without buildings, coupled with the silent background sound effects and the gray tone picture, which makes people feel desolate. The coloring of the characters in the film is more to reflect the vicissitudes of the characters on the battlefield, and it is better matched with the film's gray and dark color palette. The characters in the film have very few lines, but they are very profound and outrageous. At the beginning of the film, the characters are speechless, making people feel like a pantomime. The few lines finally made people listen to the inexplicable feeling, and more of it felt that the characters said they were incomprehensible. The film is not only single-tone, but can be regarded as a classic with few lines. Another point is that there is almost no background music, and the only background music more seems to be unnecessary. Perhaps the design of these aspects is in line with the main theme of the film’s deep myth in the eyes of the film producer. But what I have to say is that the design really fits the theme and makes people feel more profound and hazy.
The design of the protagonist's one-eyed warrior can be one of the highlights of this film. The dull and burly body is speechless, the scarred and burly body is full of scars on the face, and the dazzling array of musculoskeletal muscles makes people feel very powerful at first glance. Of course, it must be said that the looming dream of the one-eyed warrior has been guiding the development of the plot. In fact, it is not difficult to find that the role of the one-eyed warrior who does not say a word is more often in line with the theme of the story. The protagonist is the Valhalla mythology, the god Riodin, and the god Odin is a Nordic, which is the so-called Viking. People believe in the gods. When Christianity gradually came, Odin lost people's faith, so Odin became a single-eyed warrior, driving this powerful body to find his own territory.
This kind of extension has to say another highlight of the characters in the film, that is, the children in the film. The child followed him after the one-eyed warrior escaped. Here, the director’s handwriting is very flexible. Perhaps this one is more to highlight an image of an indestructible god. The child represents purity and the follower of the god. It is understandable that if this is such an intention, then this is the finishing touch. Obviously, the plot that follows gave recognition to this point of view. The one-eyed warrior, the incarnation of God Odin, expresses his will through the child and wants to go home. The so-called "going home" actually means returning to the unknown continent under one's own rule. Only the New World is his final destination, because there is no interference from the outside world, everything is the original appearance of nature. This is the home of Odin. On the road, I met a group of Christian believers who believed in the Holy Spirit of Christ, and God Odin did not burst into anger. Instead, he took this group of Christian believers to the New World, and finally killed these betrayed Christians by his own curse.
The plot of the film seems deep and incomprehensible, but because the main theme of the film is based on mythology, it depends more on the broad-sighted knowledge of the public. If you know the myth of Valhalla, it will be clear at a glance, and you won't be inexplicably following the mainstream people after watching the film. The two followers at the end of the film are also a plot that cannot be ignored. This is in sharp contrast with the cursed Christians before. It can be said that it is such a situation-in the domain of Odin, there is only one outcome for those who betray and follow Odin, and that is. "Those who follow me prosper and those who oppose me perish." Furthermore, the one-eyed warrior, the incarnation of God Odin, is designed without a line in the film. It is most likely that God Odin is unwilling to have more dialogue with believers who have abandoned him, because those believers who have abandoned him are only in the eyes of God Odin. A dead body.
Although "The Rise of Valhalla" is based on mythological stories, it has almost no mythological highlights, no light of the Holy Spirit, no powerful staff, no strange monsters... The main thing is that the film still uses realism to expand the plot, which may seem hazy in most of the plot, but it does not deviate from the main line of the film.
Through the description of Odin's return to the New World in the whole film, people can see a spiritual existence that breaks through and breaks free from bondage. The film "The Rise of Valhalla", ignited with the realistic spirit under the deep gauze, is regarded as a good product.
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