"The King's Man" • The fetters of all tragedies should not be blamed

Cassidy 2022-08-19 20:09:16

It's a movie from quite a long time ago. Lee Joon-gi is very girly in it, and it's very good-looking. I don't know if it's because of my sympathy or because I'm just such a person who can't take responsibility. Regarding the king, I sympathize with him. Wang is like a frightened child, desperately trying to protect what he thinks at the risk of using all his power to do crazy things. Wang is the child in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale who can't lie. He acts willful regardless of the current situation. This is very bad. Of course I know it, but I still can't resent this tyranny of the king.
All the characters in "The King's Man" are the embodiment of tragedy, whether it is Gong Ji, the man favored by the king, or the righteous poet who appeared as a folk artist, or the king himself or the father-in-law who persuaded three generations of kings. All are tragic. Because the king did not have the conditions required to be the king of the world, because of the tragedies he experienced, because of the shackled laws and ministers who could never recognize their existence, because of this corrupt dynasty, too stubborn and according to his own. Taking all actions in his mind, he became incompatible with his position, could not bear it, and was resented by the people and ministers; and as the father-in-law who served three generations of kings, in order to save the king, he originally wanted to use the boldness of the straightforward poet and his party. To satirize this corrupt dynasty to warn the king to let the king open his eyes to see this corrupted dynasty, which made the king wake up and govern the country, but it was self-defeating. Meaning, and triggered the source of all tragic fates; Gong Ji, a man favored by the king, was originally weak because he did not have the character of a poet and the femininity of his own face, and became the source of the unfortunate fetters of the king. Replacing the woman beside the king has become a slanderous disaster that the world refers to, but in fact he should not have been involved in such a battle, if there is no poet's willful action; the poet, the poet is straightforward and bold, but the poet is like that Stubbornness, if the poet hadn't been at fault for the cynical factor in him If he hadn't been blinded by the golden light of money in those hungry years and walked the tightrope with Gong Ji in peace, none of this would have happened. But a poet is a poet after all, and a poet cannot be a poet if he is not affected by the restlessness in him. Therefore, all the tragedies and fetters stem from the accident of the environment, and no one can be blamed.
The king perished his dynasty (but maybe it was a blessing for him); the poet lost forever the chance to walk on the tightrope to see the sky and the ground, leaving only the abyss and endless darkness; the father-in-law finally hanged Ended his tragic years and thus showed his loyalty to the king; and as the calamity Gong Ji, who was scolded by the world, that weak man, cut his wrists and mutilated himself. Resentment, remorse, but everything is irreversible. The last scene is Gong Ji and the poet performing a tightrope walk together as entertainers for the last time when the counter-attacks rushed into the palace. Wang and his dancer waited for the unfortunate fate to come, and did not stubbornly seek their lives. Maybe this is because they In other words, "death" is the best destination.
Fate is a sinner, tricking people like ants.
- Afterlife. What kind of body will your soul regenerate in the next life? Noble? King's?
- No, no, no, I still have to live as a poet.
The world is a stage, people are just a moment, they exist in a certain way, and then they turn into dust and live together. We should solemnly bless the earth!

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Extended Reading
  • Joy 2022-03-20 09:02:58

    Lee Joon Ki saved the drama's straightforward narrative. The commerciality of the film is more worthy of attention than the artistry: why does it become the 10th highest-grossing gay film in the world and the highest-grossing annual box office champion in Korea? As a model for studying the commercialization of gay films, "The King's Man" provides a reference for how the East Asian cultural circle adapts a large number of homosexual anecdotes in the country.

  • Brittany 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    a man and a bunch of men

The King and the Clown quotes

  • Jang-sang: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ahhh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

    [From subtitles]

    Jang-sang: You have the wrong man. I wrote it. He's innocent. The audacity of it has my signature all over it. After all, it was by audacity that I got in the palace.

    Nok-su Jang: You're making this up!

    Jang-sang: Well, well.

    [Stands up defiantly in front of the King and Nok-su]

    Jang-sang: A whore and her tongue's work is never done.

    Nok-su Jang: How DARE you!

  • Pal-bok: [From subtitles] Isn't she the King's Consort?

    Chil-duk: Sure is. What on earth is that woman doing?

    Pal-bok: People say, she a lady now but she still shits like a horse. So then the rumors were true after all!