Darkon
Closed CaptioningLuke Meyer & Andrew Neel
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Plot Summary
Darkon is a theatrical documentary that explores a community of Live Action Role Players whose real lives and fantasy lives collide in a series of war games that involve medieval re-enactment, role playing, and full contact combat.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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88%- Reviews Counted: 17
- Fresh: 15
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 7.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Eloquent and occasionally touching, Darkon is haphazardly photographed but unfailingly generous toward subjects who exhibit an astonishing degree of self-awareness.
Fresh: A clear-eyed and oddly touching docudocu about a gaggle of Baltimoreans who dress up in home-made medieval garb and chase each other around soccer fields and meadows.
Fresh: By approaching the subject without a sense of ironic distance, Neel and Meyer get at something elemental, a variation of the American Dream at work, in which everyone can live out their life as they see it, even if that's as a medieval elf.
Fresh: Empowered as they are, it's hard to take this motley crew seriously when they spit medieval maxims with soccer goals in the background, but the filmmakers approach their subjects with humanity.
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