The opening of "Kingdom" is so similar to "A Song of Ice and Fire". When many people don't know it, ghosts have begun to haunt and march towards humanity quietly.
But the characteristic of "Kingdom" is that it is the East Asian version of "A Song of Ice and Fire". If the alien ghosts in "A Song of Ice and Fire" attacked from outside the Great Wall, the zombie ghosts in "The Kingdom" were born inside the city wall, even inside the palace wall. The first person to become a ghost was the King of Korea, the king of a country, and then bit people through him, and then spread to Dongnae, Gyeongsangdo.
The ancient society of East Asia was a famous Confucian cultural circle. It emphasized the three principles and five permanent principles. The ruler was the minister, the father was the son, and the husband was the wife. Everything is revolving around this level and order.
However, what if these outlines are bitten? This is exactly the story told in "The Kingdom".
The zombie plague spreads, strange ghosts haunt at night, and the bitten person becomes a strange ghost, losing all his sanity. The creator of "The Kingdom" specially filmed many such plots in the play: wife bites husband, son bites father, mother bites daughter , The patient bites the doctor, what husband is the key for his wife, what father is the key for his son, what kind of gratitude and revenge, what public order and good customs, every bite, Confucius, Meng Fuzi, Zhu and his son will not be wrong.
The fundamental foundation of Confucian society, the order of ethics and religion, collapsed instantly after people became zombies.
So the people in the film are not surprised when they see the zombie biting people. They are surprised: "Ah, they are biting the nobleman!"
The two classes of nobles, with famous names, were invincible on weekdays. They even bowed and murmured when they spoke to each other, but when the zombies came, they instantly regained their original shape, and they couldn't be bitten by mistake.
In fact, in recent years, there have been many dramas that have become monsters biting people, from "Blood" to "A Song of Ice and Fire", but the most shining point of "Kingdom" is to look at the history of zombies and ghosts in East Asian Confucian society.
The zombie plague hits, children bite mothers, mothers bite children, and filial piety often collapses. Not to mention the Confucianist rules and regulations, they even become accomplices in facilitating the spread of the zombie plague.
Because the best way to eliminate zombies is to burn the corpses, but the old mother of the soldier and horseman stood up and sternly scolded: the body is skinned, the parents of the sufferer, even burned the corpse, God is intolerant!
Soon after, it was precisely the mother of the Confucian defender who was righteous and righteous, who took the noble son who had turned into a zombie on the boat, and as a result, everyone was bitten.
Here is precisely a deep irony and metaphor: all ethics is just defending a zombie, the king is a ghost, and the feudal kingship is an alien ghost. The so-called ethical ethics and loyalty and filial piety are just defending an alien ghost, but It is helping the spread of the zombie plague to bite more innocent people. The thousand-year history of East Asia has merged with zombies here.
The nobles enjoy all kinds of privileges in society, but they are weak and incompetent. When fleeing, the nobles go first, when fighting, the nobles retreat, and when they are hungry, the nobles drink meat and drink. Be an aristocrat with peace of mind, or be a noble after giving birth to a child, so that the common people can be a commoner with peace of mind, but what use is there to use the blood and sweat of the common people to support such an incompetent noble? Since the nobility is useless, what is the use of maintaining this kind of support system and class-solidified ethics?
Although the play is that when zombies strike, Li Jiao Lun often collapses, and then the creator uses countless details to say who is at fault.
One of the most important details is that the patients in Chiluxuan (hospital) turned into zombies after eating the meat of Dan'er that was bitten by the zombie king. This is the earliest spread of the plague, but they are forced to go. It is precisely the unscrupulous and ruined kingship that is competing for food.
"Ah Xi, they are actually biting the nobles!" This sentence is carefully tasted, and it seems that it is not an objective description, but a long-standing expectation from the bottom of my heart.
Zombies have come from the history of East Asia, from loyalty, benevolence and righteousness, and from the morality and ethics. They have continued for thousands of years.
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