Movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf
Mar. 8th, 2008 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amediaLe Pacte des Loups, a.k.a. Brotherhood of the Wolf, was a pretty cool movie, though about an hour too long IMHO. TODS had seen the first twenty minutes on the plane to France and then they didn't have it on the plane on the way back, so we made a point of renting it. We watched it in French with English subtitles.
The hero reminded me of Stephen Maturin from the Patrick O'Brian books - not physically, but in his scientific approach to things. His Iroquois sidekick suffered from some "noble savage" stereotyping but in the fight scenes, he was poetry in motion. Mm, mm, mm. The plot didn't make a lot of sense, but it was fun to watch. There was an interesting inversion of the usual association of chaos/evil with wilderness and cosmos/good with civilization, and a very peculiar perspective on the Revolution (the film takes place about one generation before).
The hero reminded me of Stephen Maturin from the Patrick O'Brian books - not physically, but in his scientific approach to things. His Iroquois sidekick suffered from some "noble savage" stereotyping but in the fight scenes, he was poetry in motion. Mm, mm, mm. The plot didn't make a lot of sense, but it was fun to watch. There was an interesting inversion of the usual association of chaos/evil with wilderness and cosmos/good with civilization, and a very peculiar perspective on the Revolution (the film takes place about one generation before).
