The Green Knight

The Green Knight or Green Man is part of English folklore, and of course turns up to make his contribution to the Arthurian legend. It is a simple folk tale that would have different variations befitting an oral tradition.. People who think that making a movie requires that it follow one version, the 14th century poem, faithfully are not being faithful to the story.

So this movie tries to fill in a folk tale that can be told in 20 minutes with trippy visual imagery and unsettling music.

So what it does right is good. The look and feel of the movie is consistent. Even things like only focusing on characters of the narrative while others fade into the background.

What it does wrong, will depend on what you which bits you like or don't like. But ultimately the visual poetry reduces the nature of the characters to cyphers.

What does it all mean? Well that is up to you. Is it worth seeing? Well, sometimes things like this can pay off for some of the audience. Don't feel it paid off for me though.