The Last Duel 4K 2021

As always, I was too lazy to write a review, but I could not resist reading some other people's ... let's face it, men's opuses. How amazing is the ability of people to get lost in three pines! Hopefully the main reason is that action fans simply skipped most of the movie to see the promised duel right away. Or their own convictions are so firmly entrenched in their heads that they do not even allow the authors to disagree with them.

In fact, cinema only at first seems complex and ambiguous due to its structure. There are really three completely different points of view given here, and the same scenes in three parts are presented in completely different ways. Only a very inattentive person can fail to notice this - or, again, looking in fast forward. But the point is that the first two "truths" are the truths of the blind! It is enough to look at the title of the third part to make everything clear. The film is simple, unambiguous, and its main idea, at the present time, is absolutely banal, although correct. To be honest, I myself expected otherwise. However, every time I am convinced that common truths are still to be chewed and chewed by many. In the West, they have already chewed and chewed, so there men will not have any questions after the 'Duel'. For women - even more so, because the movie is FEMALE, like the novels of Philip Gregory and her countless followers. Understandably disappointing for Ridley Scott's fans, but such is the time. And do not expect a large number of battle scenes from a woman's film - here the emphasis is on the drama. Each character gets their share of sympathy, but by the end it becomes obvious who deserves it the most, and no choice is given to the viewer - although, of course, you are always free to sympathize with the villains. I must say that I had no doubts about the key scene even after the second part, despite the distorted perception of its main character (I will not go into details in order to avoid spoilers.) But when the same scene is shown through the eyes of the heroine ... which ones still remain options?

I didn't like everything in the presentation of the story, there is a certain raggedness - even in the first part there is no smooth transition from one scene to another, and then, so that there are no repetitions, the film "jumps" even more. The friendship of the main characters mentioned is practically not shown at all. But in general, the cinema is certainly captivating, the acting is at its best, and the atmosphere of the Middle Ages is created, although you will not see a particularly wide panorama here. About Charles VI (Mad), the uninitiated will not understand anything at all. Well, this song is not about him ...

I recommend to the spectators, as well as to those male viewers who have ceased to be medieval knights in the worst sense of the word and at the same time have not become too entangled in the networks of (no longer the most) modern 'ambiguity'.