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CITAZIONE (Munny Edwards @ 18/3/2011, 09:25) CITAZIONE (Jack Torrance @ 17/3/2011, 17:51) Valhalla Rising di Nicolas Winding Refn, in cui l'analisi del passaggio dal paganesimo al cristianesimo è secca, senza fronzoli e fondamentalmente veritiera. Ma ti e piaciuto poi? ...e scrivile due righe bestia! 
Per non intasare l'altro topic replico qui. 
Mi è piaciuto, e pure assai. 
Ecco una breve recensione che ho scritto per un magazine studentesco. Sì, è in inglese. No, adesso proprio non c'ho voglia di tradurla.
Magari in nottata.
Marketed like a simple action movie (the awful dvd cover is quite evidently trying to get an unprepared public to watch a film only people who see Cinema as an Art form will like) and unjustly overlooked by critics, the last film by Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn (director of Bronson), is a complex, multi-layered journey into the concepts of Myth, Religion, and ultimately Man itself.
Valhalla Rising follows the story of One-Eye (Mads Mikkelsen), a mute Norse warrior whose humanity is uncertain, first in his escaping slavery and then in his embarking with a group of Christian Vikings towards the Holy Land.
Symbolic imagery is preponderant throughout the whole picture: many the ways in which one might interpret the events, the Metamorphosis of the main character from a Myth, a mythological beast we could say, to Man, Warrior, and ultimately to God. Of course we are not talking here about the Christian God, about the almighty old guy with a white beard who can everything and nobody has ever seen doing anything. We're talking about God in the eye of man: One-Eye's actions, his ways, make him godlike in the eyes of his companions, thus making him a God among men. “In the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is King”, said Erasmus. The subtle critique of Christianity becomes evident in the representation of the superstitious Christian Vikings, on their using religion to make a claim over Lands and People. Praising God while betraying and killing their own friends, they don't seem so far from today's fanatics.
Technically, Valhalla Rising is nothing short of extraordinary. The visuals, reminding of Herzog and Tarkovskij, show an uncorrupted, wild Nature of ancient times. The director slowly captures his audience, or at least the part of his audience willing to be captured by sheer cinematic beauty and complex storytelling (so, I'd say, a minority), not through lines of dialogue (very scarce, indeed), but through an intense use of the power of moving images.
Not a film for many, Valhalla Rising, with its slow paced action and philosophical and metaphysical research. Not a film for people looking for mindless Viking violence. The violence explodes, yes, a couple of times, but that's not the point. The point is elsewhere, the point is in the power of Cinema. Stupid would be looking at the finger pointing to the Moon.
Link al giornale: http://issuu.com/abercadabra/docs/01.01
E se volete un voto, direi 8. 
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