Black Death (2011)

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There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Black Death (2010) is a grim tale full of compelling performances, beautifully dark scenery, character depth, and most of all, plenty of atmosphere. This movie, directed by Christopher Smith, is a key example of how to build atmosphere and tension in a film. It also shows how easily we assume the roles of each character in a movie. Black Death is a tense, dark, atmospheric historical work of fiction that accurately depicts the feeling of the plague. From the moment the movie starts, our eyes are seared with the images of corpses, the musty smell of death, and the toll that the plague made upon this country. The acting is very well done, especially by Eddie Redmayne, the young confused monk, and Caprice Van Houten, who brings an eerie feel into a normally peaceful village. Sean Bean, as always, is amazing, and I found this film to be his best performance. The action sequences are well-shot, and the cinematography is astounding. The locations that the characters visit fit the environment, and the mood of the film. But what really makes this film, as I have stated earlier, is the feeling and the atmosphere of the village that our characters seek. To avoid any spoilers, it is not what it seems, but at the same time it is. This is a dark and somewhat depressing film, but I believed that's exactly what the director intended. A film about a sickness that decimated many countries is not going to be one with a happy ending. Needless to say, this film worked very well, and I cannot give it enough praise. This is a movie that does not hand you the correct answers to very difficult questions. This is a movie that has you question who is right and who is wrong. This is the Black Death. I give this movie a solid 9.1 out of 10. A must watch.Thanks for reading my review! This was my first review, so sorry if it was a bit hard to follow.

Medieval movie around the plague, which means mud beneath our feet, oppressive atmosphere of gloom, rampant superstition in the name of an austere god who may be punishing mankind.But we don't have a cinematician who will thread deeply around images, merely a director who films plot scenes and strings them into a story, here about mercenaries venturing into the forest in search of a necromancer. It's all sloppily filmed without abstraction that will permeate beneath the words and gestures to uncover fundamentals.It has some mystery I guess, a few reversals about the nature of evil as belief in a story, but it's without anything to recommend it. Stagy and announcing every bit of conflict through actors. Looking back it will be swallowed up in a murk of samey b-movies about medieval darkness.

It's 1348 England. The plague has descended on the lands. Novice monk Osmund (Eddie Redmayne) volunteers to lead a group of knights led by Ulric (Sean Bean) on a quest to find a rumored sanctuary village in the marsh. Osmund is conflicted about his love for a village girl. After a long disturbing journey, they find the isolated village protected by herbalist Langiva (Carice van Houten).This is the muddy dark middle ages in a semi-realistic fashion. It's ugly and filled with superstition. Redmayne and Bean are compelling leads. The dark brooding pace does take its toll. It's not really an exciting romp. The village has a slightly eery feel. This is an anti-supernatural horror.

The film can be considered a horror from the beginning to the end, it's worth check the performance of Eddie and Sean Bean, whom managed to engage their roles with a lot of emotion, realism, and truth.The soul of the film emanates from the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe witch are a pair of ill-fated lovers whose story forms part of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The story has since been retold by many authors.In Ovidian tale, Pyramus and Thisbe are two young lovers, unable to stay together for social issues, however the power of love makes they plan an escape to live together the rest of their lives. Thisbe planned with Pyramus that they would flee to a distant monument far from the city, Into the woods, called Ninu's Tomb, and there they would wait for the other and than flee together. Thisbe was the first to get there, and she was waiting for Pyramus until she saw a lioness with a bloody mouth, scared, she ran into a cave to hide, and on the trail dropped her veil. The lioness seeing the veil on the ground, laid with its mouth bloodied on it, smearing the veil with blood of a prey. Pyramus when reached the Ninu's Tomb moments later, didn't found Thisbe, but saw the footprints of the lioness and the bloody veil of Thisbe on the ground. When he found the veil, he believed that Thisbe was killed because of his late, and after crying over her veil, committed suicide.The film is exactly the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe with their intermediate characters, and a little modifications.In The Film:Pyramus and Thisbe are also separated by a social matter, Pyramus (Osmund) is a monk, and according to his votes could not fall in love with a woman (Thisbe - or Averill)Both plan to find in the woods, on a monument called Cross of the Martyrs in Dentwich forest, which symbolizes the Nilu's Tomb.Warriors on behalf of the Bishop are intermediates in history as well as the village and the Necromancer.When Osmund reaches the place where they planned to meet, also finds Averill veil bloodied, and footprints and marks of fight on the ground.Wild looters who attacked Averill symbolize the Leone.The suicide of Pyramus is symbolized with Osmund identity loss, which in the film has an uncertain end, but it is clear that it is no longer the same.A work that everyone should check out and enjoy the horrors of the Middle Ages, all the dirt, ignorance, lack of infrastructure, and dependence of the church in the existentialist ideal.The film makes clear how a misunderstood religion, whatever it is, causes terrible tragedies in which the protagonist is the man by itself.