After multiple delays and a studio shutdown, the film arrives on Netflix with something specific to say about its queer characters and the status quo.
. There’s nothing remotely ambiguous about the romance between Ballister Boldheart , the movie’s other main character, and his swoony fellow trainee Ambrosius Goldenloin , one that’s laid out in the opening sequence as they embrace and declare their love for one another while looking down at the arena where they’re due to be knighted.
Ballister hopes that he can belong if he proves himself worthy, a desperate longing the movie itself can’t let go of in the end.” Ballister is an outlier, not because of his sexuality, which doesn’t appear to be a point of contention in the film’s futuristic medieval world of flying cars and high-tech swords, but because he’s a street kid who was allowed to enter contention to become a knight by Queen Valerin , a privilege previously reserved for a pedigreed few.
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