I can confidently say that 'Braveheart' is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I like it so much that I'm almost kind of upset it took me this long to see it. I suppose it was a bit melodramatic, but otherwise this movie feels like the essence of what good movies should be about.
'Braveheart' was superbly balanced. It had love, drama, tragedy, suspense, plot twists, even some genuinely funny tidbits. The action scenes were brutal and felt realistically unforgiving and just flat out scary. Every single character felt meaningful and genuinely unique. Every significant character (of which there were many) impacted the story in an important way that moved the plot along.
I feel genuinely stupid often in life, but after watching this movie I feel truly idiotic. It seems that I fell for other people's opinions? I never heard bad things about the film necessarily but this film was memed for years. It's my fault for being so easily influenced into thinking this movie was like maybe weird or corny or something?
Here's one example:
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Once again, it seems that some of the best pieces of art get ridiculed or perhaps teased the most. I could be overplaying that aspect. I'm just ranting a bit, but what else is new? At the end of the day, I was just lazy.
I guess the memes also got me to see the movie eventually. So maybe the memes actually kept this film's relevance alive. Hmmm.
Beyond the memes though, it seems that as much as I believed my mom and I were so called 'movie nerds' turns out there's more to movies than ya know, horror movies, crime dramas and Lifetime (brainrot) movies! Of course there are some exceptions but I swear if I had to guess, at least 90 percent of the movies I saw with her were of those genres. It just seems weird, but good, to know there's a whole side of movies that actually are motivating, inspiring, uplifting. Not just scary, stressful and depressing.
Back to the movie though. The love story between William Wallace and Murron felt so effortless, natural and amazingly wholesome. It typically takes a lot for me to really care a bout cinematic love stories, but their story was fantastic until of course it ended the way it did. That part made me genuinely upset. Their love didn't feel fake or like, unappreciated or whatever. They felt like soulmates and the way she was taken from William felt deeply unsettling.
The movie makes you feel like you should simply never be conquered. Refuse to be conquered in any phase of life. I personally am often worried, scared and like, nervous. Life is a confusing thing, but one thing is clear- William Wallace defied the sheer greed and hubris of his society, and it was so impressive to witness. No human has a right to control another and it seems that it's a never ending struggle to keep freedoms, even today. While it's unfortunate it took Robert the Bruce so long to really commit to Wallace's cause, I mostly enjoyed his character development and grew to respect him.
This whole film just felt special in every sense of the word. For a film made in 1995, the film quality, the camera work and overall just scale of the film was incredibly impressive and ahead of it's time.
I struggle to really express how much I like this movie. This one will live in my head rent free for awhile. Between Harry Potter movies and now Braveheart, I really want to visit Scotland one day. It's on the European list for me LOL. Greece, Germany, Scotland and Ireland. Of course if I'm able I'd like to visit pretty much all of Europe but, those countries are like a top priority if I had to choose. Also, I want to visit 41 of the states in the USA I haven't properly visited.
This wasn't much of a review but, oh well. I just shared how this one made me feel, and what thoughts crossed my mind I guess.
