You will enjoy the 3D Imax movie Beowulf for the animation and the cinematography. I did. I had read the 7th Century poem many decades ago and reviewed it again. It takes 20 minutes to read.
The movie and the poem are barely related, barely. It is the difference that I want to comment on. The poem is an heroic saga of an heroic Viking. The film is a modern storyline that I think presents a great metaphor.
The film story is about two kings who are allured by their youthful sex drive to have sex with a beautiful demon posing as a Angelina Jolie. The offspring of the coitus is a monster that attacks the followers of the two kings.
That metaphor, to me, is about
the persistence of lefty-socialism-communism in our day. The evidence
of the last century is overwhelming that Lefty Marxist ideology always,
yes always, degenerates into murderous tyranny and poverty. Yet each
new generation for the past 20 years has brought forth a new group of
Lefty Marxist ideologs blind to the consequences of their ideological embrace.
Why? That is the theme of Beowulf. Young people are rebellious, they often have heroic values and their raging sexual hormones seem to land them in the domain of Lefty Marxist ideology. An ideology that is really a demon that clothes itself in the mantle of excitement and passion.
Beowulf is an explanation of how sex driven young people can be engulfed in the horrid offspring of Lefty ideology which is tyranny and poverty for their fellow citizens.