"The world was once dominated by me / The huge waves were surging because of my life / Now I sleep alone at dawn / Wandering lonely on the road that once belonged to me" Speaking of "Viva la Vida", the lyrics of "Viva la Vida" fit well with this drama of. The first time I was moved by the plot was when Louis XIV was ill. In a hallucination, he saw his entourage, his younger brother, and his mistress, all surrounding his bedside to send him to Huangquan. The king's nightmare is always betrayal, and his greatest dream is a splendid palace that symbolizes national honor and power. So when he was sick, he was eager to call the gardener. This craftsman who returned from the battlefield symbolized his grand blueprint. When Louis XIV was most lonely and helpless, he asked the old gardener to tell him a story about the emperor. When he heard the old gardener recite the phrase in "The Art of War of Sun Tzu", "A soldier is a trickster. Therefore, he can show what he can't, and when he can't, he can show what he can." Is it a coup for conquering the enemy, or is it because he was reminded again that the king must be suspicious all his life, and the fate that cannot be escaped from generation to generation? "I am the country", This may be the most authoritative rhetoric a monarch in a man-ruled society can say, but when a person needs to represent the country as a decision-making machine, it often conflicts with his humanity. The screenwriter boldly handles the relationship between Louis XIV and Henrietta as a lover and mistress who meet each other every night. Still saying "I don't regret sending her to England". The king kept repressing his emotions to become the wise king he dreamed of, always responding to the empress dowager's opening sentence "The road of kings is doomed to be difficult". Therefore, the person that Louis XIV envied most was Philip. He envied that he could live in the sun, and he had to distinguish right from wrong, eliminate traitors, and be impartial from beginning to end. This is a task that the king cannot accomplish in his lifetime. The king can only choose to back down and tolerate some betrayals and disloyalty, just like the Jiajing emperor in Liu Heping's writings asking himself, "The sage came out, the Yellow River is clear, but when will the Yellow River be cleared?" Themes endure in court dramas, but they are always the most painful parts of the secret histories of those kings. The Duke of Philippe Orleans is another character who is fully portrayed throughout the show. He is gay, likes to dress up as a woman, looks charming, and his biggest dream is to fight on the battlefield. (This is where I feel that the script is relatively lacking, and the performance of the war is very weak, but perhaps it was originally positioned as the secret history of the palace rather than a historical drama that restores the facts in an all-round way. I personally feel a little pity here...) He is a very contradictory person. Although he is against the emperor everywhere, the two brothers are actually deeply in love. The younger brother accused the king and even pardoned his lover. From the beginning to the end, what he struggled with was that the elder brother seemed to be using and suspicious of him all the time. He felt that the elder brother did everything. Calculated. His feelings for Henrietta were actually a kind of sympathy. He saw his own shadow in her. He kept reminding his wife that the king was using her and was ready to sacrifice her at any time. So when Henrietta became the victim of the king's political struggle and died in Louis XIV's bedroom, Philip also chose to fly away with the Knights of Lorraine and never return. The biggest difference between Philip and his royal brother is that he has the right to indulge freely. He can open his arms and shout "I am the thunder that roars in the distance" at the king's council, or he can choose to flee when he is extremely disappointed with the status quo. Other side characters are also interesting, such as Madame Clermont in disguise, who represents the persecuted Huguenots, who is coming to avenge the king, and Louis XIV's religious policy is extremely intolerant, even in the treaty with England. Asking the King of England to convert to Catholicism, religious contradictions become a hidden thread in the whole play; Henrietta is whitewashed into a pure and harmless beautiful girl, she is actually a soft and pure land in the king's heart that has not been polluted by power struggles. Her death It heralds the complete defeat of the king's feelings in the face of reason; Fabian, the loyal captain of the guard, actually has a secret affair with Madame Clermont... The most cruel thing about the court battle is that everyone has a benefit. Sword, but no one really has a shield, the result is a lose-lose, and no one has ever been happy. Louis XIV wanted a strong France, and at last his lover died and his younger brother was estranged; the king's cronies would never cease to work for him, but were always in danger of losing their favor; and the king's enemies walked on the edge of the knife and succeeded hope is slim. Probably what most people want is the freedom that Madame Clermont said to Fabian after a sex session, on a forest path, looking up at the stars through the gaps in the trees. Finally, looking forward to the next season~ The scene is really super restored. The blue flat roof of Versailles Palace and the blue sky complement each other, and the fountains and bronze statues sparkling in the sun are so beautiful that I can't believe that there was gloom and blood in it.
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