Kriemhild the Destroyer of Men

Let's see, just from casual memory she destroyed Siegfried, Gunther, Hagen Tronje, Rudiger and Atilla.
Of course, I am not counting all of the grunts that were used as fodder.

This was intense. I have rarely been so involved in the melodrama between characters as I was with this film. I felt that the major female characters were likely the true villains in this piece.
Brunhilde and Kriemhild basically destroyed everyone in the world.

Brunhilde was more traditionally evil but Kriemhild's single-minded obsession ended up causing the most destruction.

Does anyone truly watch all of Die Nibelungen and finish it with Kriemhild remaining a sympathetic character? Sure she's experienced a great deal of pain but in my opinion, the process of the revenge creates a certain distance between her character and the audience in contrast with how it was when Siegfried was alive.
I will say that I was on Hagen Tronje's side through much of the film but at the end I did want Kriemhild to kill him. It wasn't because I agreed with her perspective, but because he was wrong to hide behind her brothers and killing the kid was kind of a dick thing to do. So by the end he deserved the fate that he didn't deserve when Kriemhild first began her mad revenge campaign.

These films are extremely interesting on several levels. This was my second time seeing them and I believe I could study them several more times and come up with slightly different opinions each time.

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