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Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
In medieval England fallen under the shadow of the Black Death, a young monk called Osmund is charged in leading a fearsome knight, Ulric and his group of mercenaries to a remote marsh. Their quest is to hunt down a necromancer - someone able to bring the dead back to life. Torn between his love of God and the love of a young woman, Osmund discovers the necromancer, a mysterious beauty called Langiva. After Langiva reveals her Satanic identity and offers Osmund his heart's desire, the horror of his real journey begins.
First I was surprised at how many people praised this movie. Then I realized maybe they were fooled by the good cinematography and acting. Which were the only good things in a very, very bad movie. Not the Don The Dragon Wilson kind of bad movie, but a film with a extremely weak screenplay. Yes, the naive, childish screenplay ruined the movie. It could have been good, even original; suggesting God gave us the plague for our sins was an intriguing start; but the author must have written this in the kindergarten, because it's all childish, straight and disappointing. Also, it could be good material for film schools, as an example of how to NOT write a screenplay. We're told Sean Bean's crew wants to find something, then after 5 minutes or so we're already told they have a different goal, though, and we're even told what the goal was! Come on, you don't do that... Later, while the action works towards its climax, when the climax comes, absolutely nothing happens. And no, it's not an anti-climax; it's just nothing, like they had just ran out of ideas. Another thing: Sean Bean's crew are supposed to be tough soldiers, but actually they are quite friendly. Yet another thing: the fights. Not the worst you've seen, actually quite good, but they couldn't decide whether to make the scenes brutal or bowdlerized. As a result, they're not brutal, nor mild: they're undecided, which is confusing. And more so as in the beginning we get to see some of the most disgusting corpses we've seen in film, suggesting it is a "realistic" movie. Only it's not.
Human societies can be horribly challenged by war, famine, and disease. It is the latter that "Black Death" puts into grim focus. The film shows how the plague can seize anyone ( the mighty or the low ) and kill without mercy. Europe during the mid 1300s was not the most supportive environment for scientific research and certainly not the time for government aid and disaster relief. What citizens got instead was superstition and self delusion from their religious leaders. "Black Death" is an indictment of Christian religion and its gross failure during the plague years in medieval England. In effect, we see two plagues: one caused by a microorganism and another caused by superstitious religion. Both are equally ruthless. Sean Bean portrays a weary knight bound on a mission. Hearing rumours of a remote village by a marsh that is not only plague free but able to resurrect the dead, he has assembled a small band of battle hardened warriors to investigate. He persuades a young monk familiar with the marshlands to lead the party. The knight and his men trudge along with a heavy iron torture device that can "split any man from his arsehole to his apple." The Christian adventurers want to do "God's work" and bring back the "witch" or "necromancer" responsible for keeping the remote village safe from the plague. On their journey the knight and his men bear witness to corpses piled about like rotting logs. Desperate people want someone to blame. Who better to point the finger at than defenseless, unarmed women and accuse them of being witches? The knight and his men are dark, dirt streaked, and callous. In contrast, two important female characters are blonde and beautiful. A great deal of harm could have been avoided had the zealous knight stayed home to pray away the plague. Be prepared to see cruelty. There is nothing uplifting to see here. Love is trampled. The two plagues have their way.
Black Death embraces its horror roots with ample bloodshed, at which point the silly costumes and anachronistic dialogue no longer seem so absurd.
Osmund (<a href="/name/nm1519666/">Eddie Redmayne</a>), a novice monk in 1348 England during the time of the first outbreak of Black Death, agrees to lead Ulrich (<a href="/name/nm0000293/">Sean Bean</a>), an envoy to the Bishop, and his followers, to a village in the Great Marsh that has not yet been ravaged by the disease. Ulric believes that the village is headed by a necromancer and wants to bring him or her back for confession, trial, and execution. Black Death is based on an original screenplay by Dario Poloni. The Black Death is another term for bubonic plague, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria and mostly spread by germ-infected fleas hitchhiking on rats. It is infamous for wiping out an estimated 25 million people in 14th century Europe. At that time, however, germs were unknown (germs were discovered by Louis Pasteur in 1860), so the scourge was blamed on either the sins of the people or on witchcraft. The name "bubonic" comes from "bubo", meaning "swollen gland". Swollen lymph nodes (buboes) in the armpit and groin were a sure sign of the infection, which typically kills in 4 to 5 days. Bubonic plague is still active today, but it is treatable with appropriate antibiotics. They're called "beak masks" because the shape looks like a bird's beak. Worn by doctors (and robbers) during the medieval plague, the beaks were filled with herbs and other concoctions thought to protect the wearer from "bad air". In essence, the beak masks are an early type of gas mask. Although they may not have protected against bubonic plague spread by flea bites, the masks may have offered protection against the pneumonic and septicemic forms of the disease. According to Wolfstan (<a href="/name/nm0001487/">John Lynch</a>), one of Ulric's followers, a necromancer is someone who plucks the dead from the cold earth and breathes new life into them. Not according to the movie. In Osmund's tromp through the swamp looking for Langiva (<a href="/name/nm0396924/">Carice van Houten</a>), she admits that she used trickery and herbalism to perform the miracles people in her village expected, perhaps to make them believe that she had supernatural powers or perhaps to convince them that there was no such thing as God. When Osmund pleaded with her to resurrect Averill (<a href="/name/nm2632878/">Kimberley Nixon</a>) for the second time, Langiva said that she could not, because Osmund had really killed Averill and by his own hand. Although the village had no plague so far, it wasn't because of supernatural reasons, but because of its isolation. After the massacre of the witch hunters and many of the villagers, Wolfstan returns the wounded Osmund to the monastery. In a voiceover, Wolfstan tells how he heard stories about Osmund's heart turning cold in the years that followed and how Osmund took up the sword, looking for Langiva in every woman he saw, torturing them and burning them as witches. Whether he actually found Langiva is unknown, as every woman looked like Langiva to him. In the final scene, Osmund burns yet another "witch", and Wolfstan says that he would like to think that Osmund eventually found peace and goodness. a5c7b9f00b

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