I don't understand why the rating is so low. As far as the scenes shown in the movie are concerned, I feel like I'm seeing a tragedy in which Alexander's struggle with fate ultimately fails. First of all, since he was born, his mother Olympias used the legendary god to forcibly endow him with the divinity of "Achilles", forcing him to change from ignorant and simple as a child to an aggressive seizing power Tool of. His feelings for his mother contained family affection, obedience, and disgust and contempt for her merciless thunderbolt tactics. At the same time, he has ambitions himself, and the pure desire displayed by Olympias is also a projection of his own desires, and his dislike of Olympias is more self-loathing.
The most prominent aspect of his mother's love for him is the emphasis on self-interest and the obsession with manipulating Alexander. Olympias is deformed in love for him, because she can get self-fulfilling satisfaction from Alexander's power and will do anything to help Alexander get the throne; because she is full of resentment against King Philip, she sees Alexander as a product of vengeance , kept instilling hatred into Alexander; because she did not believe in things like love and friendship, she commanded her views on life to tell Alexander in the war not to trust anyone but Hephaistion . But Olympias herself, as the queen, has nothing to rely on once she loses Alexander. I think this is also a very sad thing.
About the dream of the battered Alexander, the dream that made and destroyed Alexander. At first due to the mystical richness of the East passed down in the mythology of generations, this dream was a great attraction for all its followers, who felt that glory was calling before them. But when they triumphed and arrived in India, the harshness of the natural environment had struck them, the ferocity of the eastern tribes had shot them, and the glory of words could no longer inspire the heroism in their hearts, they needed the consolation of love, the solace of their homeland soothe. However, Alexander's ambition and rebellion against his mother made him go his own way, insisting on going east, paranoid execution of two former friends for treason. He fell into deep self-doubt and became a vulnerable Alexander again, but without the spirit of his teenage years, the day he tamed the horse is long gone.
Regarding Alexander's love, Alexander is bisexual, has three wives, Roxana is the queen, but there is no understanding and tolerance, and two lovers: Hephaistion and Bagos. Bagos was enchanting and charming, he loved Alexander, but could not fully understand Alexander's lofty ambitions. Alexander and Hephaistion are equivalent to Achilles and Patroclus, they understand each other, support each other, and are closer to spiritual love, platonic love. However, in the second half of the film, the scenes showing Yahe's love are not rendered well enough.
The whole film is narrated by the characters, so we can also see another point of view, the point of view of the soldiers who followed Alexander and the ideas of the filmmakers through the mouth of the characters.
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