I've seen it before, but it's even more moving when I see it again. I have never been able to appreciate the beauty of Shakespeare's plays. Maybe it's because the stories are relatively estranged. Instead, I can feel the beauty in this film. A play within a play, a memory within a memory, a dream within a dream. The audience who is affected by the drama is like a self who is unaware of the memory.
Wisdom can become an emperor, morality can become a saint, but both can only be evil. The ancient kings, the pariahs of this world, shoulder all the talents and sins in the world, and can only save themselves by accomplishing nothing. So the hero is lucky. He gave up his name and lived in sorrow for half his life, but he also kept his sobriety and was able to "end without success".
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