Os Cangaceiros
23rd August 2011, 01:46
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Has anyone else seen this one? I saw it a while ago, but after seeing it again recently I was reminded of the fact that it's pretty good.
It's about some soldiers who are dispatched from religious officials in Britain during the Black Death, to a village in the countryside that's supposedly unaffected by the plague, and which is supposedly headed by a necromancer who's bringing people back from the dead. They're led by a soldier (Sean Bean) who's a Christian zealot, and there's widespread unrest in the countryside and the cities as bodies pile up. A young monk in training tags along as a guide. They eventually reach the village, but these pagans aren't the peaceful hippy pagans of lore...
It's a good movie about the question of faith, and the ending is very bleak. I like endings like that. It's not really a "swashbuckling" film, though, lol, although there are a couple fight scenes in the film (the contact between the village pagans and the squad of Christian soldiers comes to a violent head). My understanding is that it was kind of a love-or-hate kind of film, but I thought that it was a fairly thoughtful take on faith, by a good director ("Severance", "Creep", "Triangle"...I like all those films).
Has anyone else seen this one? I saw it a while ago, but after seeing it again recently I was reminded of the fact that it's pretty good.
It's about some soldiers who are dispatched from religious officials in Britain during the Black Death, to a village in the countryside that's supposedly unaffected by the plague, and which is supposedly headed by a necromancer who's bringing people back from the dead. They're led by a soldier (Sean Bean) who's a Christian zealot, and there's widespread unrest in the countryside and the cities as bodies pile up. A young monk in training tags along as a guide. They eventually reach the village, but these pagans aren't the peaceful hippy pagans of lore...
It's a good movie about the question of faith, and the ending is very bleak. I like endings like that. It's not really a "swashbuckling" film, though, lol, although there are a couple fight scenes in the film (the contact between the village pagans and the squad of Christian soldiers comes to a violent head). My understanding is that it was kind of a love-or-hate kind of film, but I thought that it was a fairly thoughtful take on faith, by a good director ("Severance", "Creep", "Triangle"...I like all those films).