YMMV / The Lost City of Z

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Is the real reason for his son's actions the hope of being close to his father at least in this way, or is it really the result of Like Father, Like Son and he inherited his father's thirst for adventure?
  • Did Costin refuse to join the final expedition because he really now has a family to take care for, or he uses that as an excuse, realising Fawcett is a lunatic that will sooner or later get him killed while chasing his dreams?
• Anvilicious:
  • The film is so naively straightforward in its anti-racist message that it sometimes becomes quite amusing in own hypocrisy. Most prominently, Fawcett, has in the same time zero problem sprouting various (modern) politically correct slogans, while in the same time chasing after the Z - an imagined Advanced Ancient Acropolis, which hinges entirely on the strong insistence it is impossible for the natives to develop anything beyond mudhuts.
  • Another example is Fawcett's debate with his wife, who adds a heavy-handed feminist message to the point she's made into a Straw Feminist. The film treats her declaration of "the woman's pain at birth is worse than anything a man can experience in his life" as standing up against oppression, missing the banal point that she really is not prepared to go into, not to mention survive, a jungle expedition.
• He Really Can Act: Charlie Hunnam received praise for the role of a young and fanatical adventurer, despite the fact that before that he had mostly played attractive badasses and Chick Magnets.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The younger children of Fawcett almost do not appear in the film except for a couple of scenes, where the plot uses them for Tear Jerker. Especially his daughter, who does not speak any words and on whose POV the film does not pay attention at all.

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