Mexico City.- While the fandom is mostly handed over to the Justice League’s Sniper Cut, it’s not in vain that it’s a triumph for DC fans who stirred heaven and earth until Zack Snyder’s version saw the light of day, there are also aspects of the film that are being criticized.
This is a sequence that takes place in the opening stretch of the film, when Bruce Wayne tries to recruit Arthur Curry. To find the atlas, Ben Affleck’s character travels on foot and horseback through icy mountains until he finds Aquaman in a small, icy coastal village, Westfjords.
In the village tavern, Jason Momoa’s character rejects Bruce Wayne’s proposal to join his group of metahuman warriors and form an alliance to face a major and imminent threat that could wipe out Earth.
And when the angry Aquaman leaves the tavern to enter the icy waters of the sea, the villagers begin to sing a song known as ‘Vísur Vatnsenda-Rosu’, an Icelandic poem that eventually also ‘has become a traditional Nordic lullaby and a folk song by Jón Ásgeirsson. A theme that has been interpreted by the glittering star Björk.
In any case, many fans have found the inclusion of this musical passage quite forced and complain, above all, that the song remains very much in time. Also, the fact that one of the women singing smells like the sweater Arthur Curry left on the shore makes the end of the weird scene a little awkward.
The sequence might have fit better with a shorter version of the song … but in the Snyder Cut, with almost four hours of footage, time was almost what the director had left over.