Historical film. An interesting surprise from Ridley Scott. The film is based on real events, but there are three different perspectives of the same story, where the wife of a knight denounced rape by his once good friend when her husband was missing in a battle. This film tells us three different versions before the final duel. The first, the knight's version, reminds a classic story, with honor and feeling of justice and was my preferred one personally. The second, the version of his old friend then enemy, showed intense immorality without a trace of justice or anything positive. The third, the wife's version, showed some gender/patriarchy stereotypes, some completely false beliefs of the time regarding science, but also a woman alone who feels to be drowned by everyone, who want to speak her Truth about the her rape and all are against her. The film is placed in France in the Middle Ages and has become an excellent work by Ridley Scott in direction, clothing, scenery and generally in details such as other big historical films. Actors were all also great in their role. Unfortunately, the immorality of the second part mainly disapproved me very much, quite some elements could have been excluded. Overall, however, it became a good work and is in the recommended films of the genre.
Review of The Last Duel
The Last Duel
(2021)
Views about medieval patriarchy and stereotypes through a historical film
4 December 2021