The Buried Giant

Review

Set in a post Athurian Britain an old couple fight the forgetting mist that has settled on the land to set off and visit their son. 

What is the cost Of forgetting your history as a family or a society? What is the cost of remembering? A beautiful travelogue through a mythical past that becomes more unsettling as the mist clears in story and metaphor.

Notes

04:25

• The traveling party meet Sir Gawain⁉️
• They are stopped by a Briton soldier who reveals the Saxon knight is here to slay a dragon ⁉️

05:16

• They make it to the monastery, which is actually an old Saxon castle.

06:16

• A monk reveals the cause of the forgetting mist: the dragon
• Sir Gawain rats the Saxons out to the baron
• The monks try to kill the travelers in a strange tunnel

06:30

• What is going on here
• A dragon has appeared
• The Saxon boy has been bitten by one, and now the female dragon is after him ⁉️

07:20

• The Saxons tour the monastery in secret
• The warrior acts strange and suspiciously

08:13

• A history lesson from the knight, but hard to follow

08:26

• The couple go on a river ride in baskets

09:34

• Pixies attack the river baskets
• The Saxon boy tricks the warrior into funding his mum
• The warrior makes the boy swear to be an enemy of all Britons
• The couple find some kids with poisoned arrows that accidentally killed an ogre but meant to kill the dragon

09:46

• Sir Gawain has a lovely conversation with his horse and himself

10:09

• Sir Gawain and the Britons have a conversation but not with each other

11:09

• Everyone converges on the dragon
• The warrior kills Sir Gawain
• The mists start to lift