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Valhalla Rising
Perhaps it's a future cult classic. I often replay the fighty bits. There's something horribly real about them. I don't know whether it's just Mads, or whether the director has a secret sauce.
nick_h.-
Drive and some of his other stuff has that same sort of really uncomfortable, shocking violence.
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whether the director has a secret sauce.
I think it's this. The thing about Valhalla Rising is that the whole thing has this atmosphere like the whole shoot was just a relentless fucking slog for all involved, just grim and dirty and cold and stinky and horrible and exhausting. And that'd be horrible for like, a Wes Anderson film, but on this it feels like they just go with it, and it works with the story, and it feels right with the characters. It has such a unique texture to it.
ltc
ReekBlefs
Great film. It seemed to fly under the radar really!