The Last Duel

Don McIver
4 min readApr 2, 2022

I wasn’t really drawn to it when it first came out in theaters, but Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel had been sitting on “My List” since I activated my HBO-Max subscription. During free time, I would look at it and then dutifully pick something else. But last night, I finally watched it. Knowing the story, it is not surprising that the movie, sort of, reflected the kerfuffle in regards to Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Will Smith and the Academy Awards. I’m not…

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Don McIver

Poet, writer, producer, monologist, rhetor, Dudeist Priest.