Erlend was found guilty on all charges, including the most serious, high treason, and was sentenced to death and the forfeiture of all his property to the King.
I was surprised. I thought about it analytically. It has been merely 30 pages since this movie turned from black-and-white to technicolor and now with the finding of guilt and the death sentence those colors seem false, and forced. You'd think Charles Darnay had possessed Erlend. Why was that change necessary? Is it realistic? It seems to be not. It was necessary to make Erlend a hero for it still to be tragic, and more realistically, a tragedy of Erlend's consistently manifested tragic flaw, rashness. What is wrong with that. So I didn't like abrupt change in Miss Undset's storyline.
Simon, I'm worried about Simon. At first, when he arrived in town to comfort Kristin and she threw her arms around him and he sat on the edge of her bed to calm her, I did have the thought that that was to intimate for the proper Simon and the newly lovestruck Kristin. When Miss Undset tells us that when Simon departed Kristin's bedroom she listened as he knelt before the crucifix without and prayed and then heard him rise and then heard him take off his heavy boots and sink heavily into bed, I thought that that was too much attention by Kristin and that perhaps she longed to sleep with Simon. But I didn't go there besides those impressions.
But then, Simon receives word that Ramborg, Kristin's sister, has given birth to a son. Kristin is in the courtyard with him and Simon grabs her around the waist and kisses her full on the lips in celebration. That is certainly taking liberties and that's twice in a few pages that Simon has acted un-Simon-like and Kristin all too Kristin-like. Even earlier Kristin, sitting on that goddamned hill, thought,
And the man who stood nearest to her in the world was Simon Darre, since he was wed with her only sister.
No. At least No, I don't think so. I put those three anecdotes together and I put Erlend's seeming inevitable visit to the gallows with them and I think Kristin now has her sights set on Simon as replacement for Erlend, Simon, who Kristin replaced to win Erlend, and that Kristin is the horniest fucking woman I have had the displeasure to come across in literature (save the Wife of Bath) and that her pronounced streak of cruelty will now be directed yet again to yet another person in her life who she loves, young Ramborg, and that if that happens then the character of Kristin Labransdatter is irredeemable.
I was surprised. I thought about it analytically. It has been merely 30 pages since this movie turned from black-and-white to technicolor and now with the finding of guilt and the death sentence those colors seem false, and forced. You'd think Charles Darnay had possessed Erlend. Why was that change necessary? Is it realistic? It seems to be not. It was necessary to make Erlend a hero for it still to be tragic, and more realistically, a tragedy of Erlend's consistently manifested tragic flaw, rashness. What is wrong with that. So I didn't like abrupt change in Miss Undset's storyline.
Simon, I'm worried about Simon. At first, when he arrived in town to comfort Kristin and she threw her arms around him and he sat on the edge of her bed to calm her, I did have the thought that that was to intimate for the proper Simon and the newly lovestruck Kristin. When Miss Undset tells us that when Simon departed Kristin's bedroom she listened as he knelt before the crucifix without and prayed and then heard him rise and then heard him take off his heavy boots and sink heavily into bed, I thought that that was too much attention by Kristin and that perhaps she longed to sleep with Simon. But I didn't go there besides those impressions.
But then, Simon receives word that Ramborg, Kristin's sister, has given birth to a son. Kristin is in the courtyard with him and Simon grabs her around the waist and kisses her full on the lips in celebration. That is certainly taking liberties and that's twice in a few pages that Simon has acted un-Simon-like and Kristin all too Kristin-like. Even earlier Kristin, sitting on that goddamned hill, thought,
And the man who stood nearest to her in the world was Simon Darre, since he was wed with her only sister.
No. At least No, I don't think so. I put those three anecdotes together and I put Erlend's seeming inevitable visit to the gallows with them and I think Kristin now has her sights set on Simon as replacement for Erlend, Simon, who Kristin replaced to win Erlend, and that Kristin is the horniest fucking woman I have had the displeasure to come across in literature (save the Wife of Bath) and that her pronounced streak of cruelty will now be directed yet again to yet another person in her life who she loves, young Ramborg, and that if that happens then the character of Kristin Labransdatter is irredeemable.
