I almost saw the Green Knight a couple of nights ago with my wife, and that show sounds

like it would be harmless and cute, and it's going to sound like I'm recommending it

a little bit.

But let me just say is definitely a grown-up retelling of this medieval ordeal quest.

And medieval literature is very, very different than what we have now in terms of how we think

about heroes.

One thing that it has in common with the best hero stories that we read today is that

the main character goes on a quest to fight the problems within them and overcome that,

and then that equips them to be what they need to be to deal with the problems outside

of them.

And this Green Knight, the way the stories retold, it really leans into that medieval ordeal

quest thing where the young person in need of growing morally, ethically, intellectually

and growing with their handiness with the sword and with the rules of shivalry, they

have to face a series of little miniature side quests, and they've got to overcome that

stuff, and they've got to learn something from each of them, they've got to pass these

tests, and then they're ready to accomplish the big thing or face the big thing.

There's a little bit of a twist on it in this story that I liked, but in this medieval

shivalric ordeal-driven kind of narrative, you really get two levels of meaning.

One way to interpret it is simply to say that each event that comes up, each harrowing little

feat that has to be achieved by the main character, is born directly out of the character

flaws of that character, and it's like, Providence or God is putting before this young aspiring

knight, each and every one of these problems, because that's exactly the thing that the

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