The Green Knight experience

I just (not 'just' anymore) finished this movie and it is soo far from what appeals to me. I do dislike how slow it is, how everyone feels like a mouthpiece, how random the enigmatic witchcraft is, and how all of these detach from the experience (on top of having the loser MC) But these things were kinda the point (unfortunately) and I got interested in thinking about it (fortunately), so I will be collecting my thoughts here so, SPOILERS ahead it's a story about the guy who for some reason is not settling for a mere 'good' - the world that crafts 'great' tales out of the actions of merely 'good' beings and their actions of tiny importance, while ignoring the 'greatness' of the nature - and treats merely 'good' things as playthings, to compensate for not having and deserving anything 'great' in his life, especially while being surrounded by people that are so full of these 'great' tales (not too close to reality, of course), the knights. As he slew the defenseless Green Knight, he starts taking said image and role (that of a knight) as granted - as he views himself as someone 'great' (and dislikes when his mom is called a 'witch' - something that is not ideal) going further and further away from the 'greatness' that is God, by begging the girl to not go to the church and lying about going to the church to the mother (that being a failure for a knight, as they serve someone who is supposed to be the chosen by the god, the King, as their belief goes - even if these things happened before he became a knight, he would not abandon the sentiment later on either way) - But as he goes on a journey, he is being thrown into various situations that he has no hand in, no control over the uncontrollable - 

gets almost killed by a mere bandit (a child, at that) in a completely helpless situation he was put into just as easily. As he fails at empathy, he denies his knighthood by his own words. Then not only starts seeing the ghosts (and, as if fixing his previous failure (of being cold and not showing generosity) now that he helped out even a ghost, he himself starts expecting things in return - xe is the only thing he gets, as he reaffirms his path), but also actual great (well, GIANT) beings, that, in fact, view him as a plaything (an ant, to be precise), and rightfully so. He denies the difference between the 'knight' and those who are smaller (not even humans, but mere animals) than him. Even going as far as to befriend them... and yet, still fails at it later on, as he attacks that very fox, who was just warning him in a way. Then he meets fairy tale-esque human beings (as they are intentionally leaving out the ugliness of human nature that they quite dislike), basically serving as a mirror, what he is supposed to be but is not (hence their detachment). He then proceeds to break the promise and cheat on the host, as well as denying the so-called knighthood by his body and impulses, via temptation towards both a woman and a man. Finally, he meets the Green Knight, a creature that might as well represent his grandeur, the fiction to run away from reality. Ironically, he will run away from the game as well, the moment he will face the fact that the great are those who are indifferent to the gap between heaven and earth, as he can't toy with his own head as easily as he toyed with someone else's. To the 'great' it is still a game that requires nothing more than what it objectively is, but to the 'good' it is not a game anymore now that it is not what would align to the subjective view, as everything is always supposed to be more than what it actually is, for some reason - 

and comes to the realization that he won't be able to escape from the responsibilities of the grandeur and will forever keep living in fear, that he won't ever live up to the expectations and will most definitely be struck as a failure from any angle, the roles he is supposed to play in his life. In the end, he accepts everything as is and finally stops to fear the world, as it is revealed that her mother (the most interesting to me being in the movie, as she is the witch, the ones that are shunned by everyone, and still 'serves' the god better than anyone else does in the movie) was pulling all of the strings behind the scenes to shape him into a worthy man, to fight against the decay that will be brought by the men, who by the nature are longing towards the corruption

And the actually playful joke, for once, gets dropped by the Green Knight, as the movie ends and the knight gets spared. It was always a trial personally made for him, after all, as he was 'already in the green chapel', hence the supernatural things shown specifically only to him

As I interpret the post-credits scene, the cycle will continue (as the daughter is clinging to the crown since childhood), but at the very least he made the right choice (did not get rid of the daughter, who he had from the current girlfriend), befitting the honorable man

To summarise, the movie is all about criticizing those who get drunk on fiction as they are like the songs - do not belong to your placement in the reality - by turning such a creature into a man (as in, a grounded being)