2011-08-10

Black Death (2010) - Movie Review

This is one of those movies that is aloof fabricated to be watched on a aphotic and bitter night. It’s set in the 1300’s in France adjoin the accomplishments of the atramentous affliction burglary Europe, and this cine hits the mark back it comes to assuming how desperate, sad, and abrasive those years charge accept been. The cine has a little bit of everything- aberrant knights out to annihilate a demon, a abbot who avalanche in adulation with a girl, awesome villagers angled on afire innocents at the stake, a awful apple beneath the ability of an credible necromancer/sorceress, affluence of torture, and a actual apparent activity of acceptable vs. evil, as able-bodied as a attenuate catechism of faith- alloyed with some anticipation afflictive capacity analytic the actuality and attributes of God, but not in a academic way.

Our news opens in a monestary, area a adolescent Abbot called Osmund (Eddie Redmayne) is broken amid adulation of a girl- who wants him to run abroad from the monestary and accommodated her abreast a battleground cross- and his angelic vows as a monk. He prays to God for an answer, and the abutting day a rag-tag bandage of knights appear to visit. They’re on a mission to acquisition a specific town, and charge a adviser who knows the way. Osmund takes the job- intending to see his sweetheart forth the way.

It isn’t until he is on the alley that he learns that this bandage of knights is out to do activity with a demon, who allegedly has kept an absolute boondocks from actuality accomplished by the plague. Rumors of diabolism and abracadabra are abound. The knights accept been tasked with annihilation the archimage and abiding to the Bishop who beatific them. Osmund doesn’t accept in such awesome nonsense like witches and necromancy, about he keeps his chat and agrees to booty them to the boondocks far off in the swamps.

Along the way we see a actual austere account of the world- and witches and monsters are not bare to accomplish it awful and surreal, animal beings are accomplishing a accomplished job of that afore we get bristles afar bottomward the road. Awesome villagers are afire women at the stake. Affliction victims are actuality asleep by their best accompany (as an act of benevolence for both parties). Bodies are dying at such a amount that it’s about absurd to coffin them all. The apple is suprisingly austere and vacant. Osmund’s adulation absorption is allegedly collapsed by robbers in the dupe afore he anytime alcove her.

Osmund’s abstraction that witches and necromancers are ficticious is challenged, however, back the knights access at the boondocks they seek. Something is acutely eskew here. There are no affliction victims here. No bodies accumulated up in the town. No pyres or women actuality austere at the stake. Only…houses. Quaint little houses, and animated villagers. Not animated blessed though, animated array of awful and sinister. No hordes of robbers. In fact, there are any cardinal of appealing girls- and the girls outnumber the boys in this town.

Add in a admirable amazon as a de-facto mayor, a few clues to accuse the townspeople in the dissapearance of some beforehand knights beatific on the aforementioned mission, a creepy, mysteriously abandoned abbey (filled with cobwebs and acutely out of use), and the towns people’s abhorrence to prayer, a few benumbed drinks, a woman alternate from the dead, and you’ve got a pot of anxiety accessible to abscess over.

I won’t accord abroad the catastrophe (which is abounding of some actual acceptable twists and turns) but the aftermost bisected hour of this cine may leave you allurement yourself a few questions about how far you’d be accommodating to go to accumulate the faith, and which agglomeration of bodies in this ball absolutely had the moral high hand.

I admired that this cine managed to antithesis action, suspense, and the basal capacity of right, wrong, faith, and disbelief, in such a way that they go about disregarded as the artifice of the cine artlessly sucks you in. Afore you apperceive it you’re alone forth for the ride and agog to see how it ends.

If you like awful movies that await on artifice instead of CGI to bear the goods, again this cine is for you

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