next year when everything is green - by Helena Fitzgerald

waiting for a movie and waiting for the future

green like waiting all day for the rain this is part of a continuing series of pieces about The Green Knight and the color green that will eventually come together into one big coherent essay. the other ones so far are here, here, and here. this one kind of went off on a tangent, but sometimes that’s how it works. I looked forward to The Green Knight for months before it arrived in theaters. Many people I know did. The trailer was so good, all those outlandish, dramatic shots of Dev Patel sitting still while half on fire, the vague familiarity of the poem, and the shadowy, cryptic,…

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