1995 · action · drama · history
Braveheart
Directed by Mel Gibson2h 58m1995
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Our read: Braveheart (1995) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · drama · history entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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