Yes, many times it seemed as if it was ending and didn't. My Le Fraternitie de les Loupes has french subtitles 2--I don't have DVD but movies like this, FOTR and even Tomb Raider (haha) make me wish I did. It made u think--even everything that seemed mystical, and strange had a normal xplanation in the end, sorta...It was weird wasn't it? It had alot of Fantasy elements we associate w/certian writers here: like Donaldson and Martin. Yet it also had the Martix, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon-Sci-Fi feel.
Now I'm really going 2 spoil!!! The films really does conjure up tons of images from other writings and films...even the "training" that goes on reeks of "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (who wrote that Wells?), some very sureal and some rather perverted images--yet also w/simple xplanations! Wild. The mercilessness of the fighting, the hunt and the politics feels like George Martin stuff...the martial arts, the ill and inquisitional reiligious overtones, and the rape scene felt like Donaldson stuff--from such works as The Killing Stroke in Reave the Just and Ser Visal's Tale in Daughter of Regals.
In a way many other literally works come to mind such as: The Heart of Darkness by Conrad, The Last of the Mohicans, Cagliostro, Beowulf, The Illuminatus triology!, The Count of Monte Christo. Very spiritual and facinating film. Combines such good science, philosophy, worldviews, global and local ethnic and cultural issues and progress vs. the status quo..and the base instincts of men. Mayb even throws in a dash of Voodoo! What does the Pope know about all this? (p.s. wasn't that castle used in Ever After?) If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. Lyall Watson <i>Edited by: danlo60 at: 11/1/02 5:25:53 pm </i>
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