Nicolas Winding Refn
Valhalla Rising

Part I: "Wrath"

Barren mountains tower over the sky. A dead fog hovers over a landscape lost in the dreams of the world. Men marked by time scrutinize each other. Then mud, blood, entrails, and blades. The beginning of the journey towards oneself.

Part II: "Silent warrior"

A young man accompanies him through the perpetual mists of a mute landscape. The path overlaps with memories. The arrival among the worshippers of a seemingly meaningless wooden cross. Suspicious looks.

Part III: "Men of god"

The unknown and religion open up to a physical journey and more. The fog covers this company forgotten by the very God they intend to spread. Ghosts, dreams, fears hover, and the fog, a synonym for death. Then the earth...

Part IV: "Holy land"

Dry land. Perhaps Jerusalem. Probably the place of understanding. There is no paganism or Christianity. Only untouched nature.

Part V: "Hell"

Visions, anguish, and forebodings. There is no room for any illusion. Different religions and beliefs shatter. Brutality, human instinct, and nothing more. That cross, those Gods are nothing but Violence. Physical and internal gashes open, the arrival at an anguished pantheism.

Part VI: "Sacrifice"

Destroyed by Nature and invisible presences. Finally, the sea, the awareness of nothingness. The natives. The end. Death for any theocratic thought. Only a child...

"In this place there is no God."