But that’s more disturbing than euphorically Weird.
Nicole Kidman briefly rescues the film when she reveals herself to not exactly be the helpless figure Amleth seems to think she is-and she’s not above some light incest either. Anya Taylor-Joy helps Amleth screw with his treasonous uncle Fjölnir using psychedelic mushrooms, but by that point, you just want Fjölnir to die so you can go home and take a nap. A hallucination of a screaming Valkyrie just doesn’t have the same je ne se quoi as Heimir’s “ Your fate is set and you cannot ’scape it” surrounded by steam and warm light, delivered with Dafoe’s penetrating gaze. The strangeness doesn’t stop after Heimir is gone, but it’s a lot less fun, resulting in an uncomfortable cadence of bit parts briefly rescuing the film before it slips back into relative normalcy. Why the Lawsuit From Lizzo’s Former Dancers Is Such a BombshellĪ Controversial New Movie Got One of the First NC-17 Ratings in Years, and Boy Did It Earn It The Arrogance and Incompetence Destroying a Cornerstone of College Sports happening” as a loinclothed, prancing Dafoe tapped into the primal energy of nature’s savage side for what felt like an hour straight. The notes I took while watching the movie were a scrawl of “what. So explicit, in fact, that there’s even a scene later in the film when Prince Amleth (get it?) beholds Heimir’s skull and sighs, “Poor Heimir.” Although Hamlet never shows Yorick alive, The Northman ensures that we absolutely get to see Heimir in the prime of his lifetime-making dick jokes and officiating psychedelic “werewolf bar mitzvahs.” It’s fantastic stuff, powered by Dafoe unleashing a level of weird-little-guy energy previously unknown to man. Differences aside-there are plenty of them-Eggers and cowriter Sjón add an explicit Yorick reference in the form of Heimir. The Northman is based on the old Scandinavian legend that inspired Hamlet, albeit with a significant increase in guys wearing wolf pelts. Despite having the epitome of little-guy weirdness at his disposal, however, director Robert Eggers quickly squanders his film’s crown jewel-to the detriment of both the audience and The Northman itself.
My friend told me it’s “a combination of magnetism and revulsion.” But I propose an alternative: It’s Willem Dafoe as Heimir the Fool, The Northman’s secret weapon. What is the true essence of a weird little guy?
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