>>101651443As another anon pointed out, Kayley's gender was never brought up, and neither was Garret's blindness - not substantially. This movie should have really pressed the idea of reclaiming a traditional heroic narrative for outcasts, deformed, the disabled: the people never included in stories of brave knights.
Take the scene where Ruber catches the mace Kayley's wielding. This is perfect. A woman's greatest hindrance to knighthood is her lack of physical strength - and here we have a guy who takes down half the knights of Arthur's court, punches out a dragon, and catches a mace with his hands. Ruber's terrifyingly strong. Kayley's story should have been about outsmarting him and demonstrating there's more to knighthood than brute force.
Hmmm... now that I think about it, doesn't she and Garrett - a blind man - trick him into thrusting the sword back into the stone? Maybe this is kino after all.
