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The Green Knight Ending Explained
The Green Knight, an adaptation of the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, takes audiences and its protagonist Gawain (Dev Patel) on a quest for honor.
Gawain isn’t what one would call a courageous person in the first. Agreeing to play the Green Knight’s game forces him to go on a journey in which he can rely only on himself, not on anyone. He goes with protection from a girdle which protects Gawain from any and all harm in-game. As Gawain approaches the Green Knight in his lush but ominous bower, he leaves the girdle around his waist.
Gawain did decapitate the Green Knight, after all, now equal blow wouldn’t mean a happy ending for Gawain. So he hesitates and flinches and wait for asks for a moment to collect his thoughts, then, he runs in terror and cowardice and continues.. Gawain returns to his family back and hides the truth of his actions. We all saw his whole life play out, a life riddled with cruelty and tragedy. Lowery says, “I definitely wanted it to go on a long enough so that we sort of forget that it might just be a flight of fancy. It’s very sustained.”
In the poem, Gawain approaches the Green Knight with deceit in his heart. Gawain bends his knee and exposes his neck, but he’s still wearing the girdle for protection. Lowery explains, “At the end of the day, the Green Knight calls him on it, gives him what is effectively a scratch on the cheek and sends him home, and asks that he wears that girdle forever so that he is reminded of his own fallibility in the game, But he was still allowed to go on his merry way and has a happy ending.”
Lowery continues that, “But I also wanted him to realize that with some degree of nuance and some degree of perspective. And to get that perspective, he needed to imagine what Gawain in the poem did, which is to go home and have to live the rest of his life knowing that he flinched in the moment of truth and how it looks.
Ultimately, Gawain takes the honorable course of action by removing the girdle that has kept him safe in the game. The Green Knight recognizes that and refrains from beheading Gawain. Since Gawain displayed courage, one can, perhaps, imagine his life to be the opposite of what it would have been if he’d fled away and that he goes on to live a life unmarred by deceit and cowardice like a poem.
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