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Count Thrashula posted:That's a shame, I loved Odyssey and Origins, and after seeing the Northman I figured I'd pick up Valhalla. Mount and Blade Viking Conquest Mod my friend
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Deformed Church posted:It's not as big on the spurting blood as GoT (which got almost cartoonish in places) but it's still pretty grim. The horror is just the day to day life of living in that society. It seems like a lot of people who disliked it really wanted a morality tale but what was special to me about it was that the movie is about how the Norse (at least, the warrior class) viewed the world and their role in it. Having a “and that’s terrible” aside to the viewer constantly would have been awful, I feel like it’s sorta the moral equivalent of insultingly over the top exposition, like the fact the protagonist just rips a dudes throat out with his teeth while his friends burn children for shits and giggles without anyone commenting on it shows you how normalized horror and violence is for them. He’s a normal well adjusted member of a society that is unimaginably casually brutal and cruel. That’s what’s really horrifying. He chases after his own self destruction and refuses opportunities to raise his family or have a life beyond his revenge quest. Having a reluctant Viking that feels bad about killing children so he can be more relatable while raping and pillaging his way through the world seems a lot worse both as a movie and a morality tale imo.
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May 21, 2022 18:04
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Ratios and Tendency posted:The film does exactly this though. Amleth refuses to kill women (personally, his mates can do it in front of him and that's fine) and "accidently" kills both Nicole Kidman and her other son after they attack and injure him first, in order to keep him "good-guy-ish" for the audience. I see your point there, I interpreted it differently since he did still kill the kid. In my opinion feels bad because it’s his half brother and mom and that he literally did kill off his own kin, and not to humanize him. It still felt to me like the characters reactions were because that’s something even someone raised old Norse religion might frown in rather than an attempt to make us sympathize with him.
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