Valhalla Rising ¬ DVD
Posted by admin on August 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The time is 1000 AD, “Valhalla Rising” tells the story of One-Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, who has been held prisoner by the chieftain Barde for many years.
Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness.
On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land.
As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One-Eye discovers his true self.
Referencing masters like Akira Kurosawa Sergio Leone, and Andrei Tarkovsky, “Valhalla Rising” shows how carnage, once invoked, has no fealty but to itself.
The confidently cosmopolitan Danish writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn first escorted us through the bloodstained, vomit-splattered, drug-polluted back streets of a Copenhagen omitted from guided tours for Hans Christian Andersen fans.
He then took us to meet Britain’s most dangerous criminal, Charles Bronson, in the rigorously guarded wings of Rampton and Broadmoor.
His latest movie continues this unremittingly gloomy odyssey in the middle ages when, as Thomas Hobbes put it, the life of man was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”
