Wednesday, October 13, 2021

'The Last Duel' Takes on Men in the #MeToo Era


There was a lot of uncertainty in the media and on social media when it was announced that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck had co-written a medieval drama about a knight who challenges another knight to a duel after his wife accuses the other man of raping her. This sounded like pretty sensitive material -- could those two do it justice? For MEL, I went long digging into The Last Duel.