Review of First Knight (1995) by Linda L — 28 Nov 2008

I don't understand the people who don't get this movie. I think they must be so attached to "the way the Arthurian legend is [i]supposed to be, dammit!!" [/i]that they can't see any merit in anything that doesn't match what they were expecting.

It's beautifully written, magnificently designed, and delicately acted. Despite its historical inaccuracies and anachronisims--or, more probably, because of them!--its twin messages of faith in something greater than oneself and handling one's "issues" responsibly couldn't be any better portrayed. I've watched it more times than I could count, in and out of the theater, and it's informed a lot of my own writing.