Parody


For those reviews and comments that think that this film is an accurate representation of the Late Middle Ages, well you are completely wrong. This film is a parody of the Middle Ages. If you want a more accurate representation, read the book. The film representatives as stunted the major intellectual and scholarly driving forces behind most of the events taking place. Most of the characters are idiotic and have idiotic motives. But it plays into a pop conception that many have of the Middle Ages due to Protestant and subsequently Enlightenment propaganda. All I can say is, read some history books. That review that recommends this film as accurate to medievalists is beyond ridiculous. I understand that it can be a palliative to the Hollywood depiction of the Middle Ages as an ongoing colorful pageant, but this goes entirely the other way.

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