If I was looking for Beowulf (the poem), I'd read Beowulf (the poem). I'll watch Beowulf (the movie) and expect Beowulf (the movie) from what I gather from the trailer.
But thanks for your thoughts on it nonetheless, willravel. I sometimes enjoy movies that have mixed reviews that near binary opposition.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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