As the title!
When the chasm of desire is difficult to fill, desire will breed monsters, and when monsters breed groups, it will be a plague.
In recent years, from novels to film and television dramas, from Europe and the United States to Japan and South Korea, from warm love healing to horror suspense detective dramas, there are endless themes about zombies, but they directly link zombies and politics, and use zombies to directly interpret politics Yes, "Kingdom" set a precedent.
That's what Koreans dare to do.
The last popular Korean zombie film was "Train to Busan". At that time, some film critics said that Korean films would reflect the authorities very well, and with Gong Yoo's performance, "Train to Busan" was also covered with a political net. The broadcast of "Kingdom" directly tore the mesh, turning zombies into political minions.
The change of regime in any country has always been bloody and tyrannical, and South Korea's is no exception. In the deep palace, what you can see is the end, but what you can't see is the killing. Engaging in power is the means of almost all relatives. Competing for imperial power is the idea of all royals. No matter who got the idea, the Ninety-five Zun became a trophy. As for whether the spoils are adults or babies, men or women, there is no difference. In the same way, there is only conspiracy, deceit and coercion.
The source of the zombies in "Kingdom" is the king of a country. Direct, clear, and undisguised to the beginning of the film, it starts with the corpse of an emperor. The big red rolled dragon robe, the yellow red gold crown, covered with paper money, curled with incense, poured red liquid in the mouth filled with rice to show security, the silver needle was afraid, the eyes that were originally closed peacefully revealed the dim light of zombies. Almost from the beginning of the film, I felt the screenwriter's "rebelliousness", starting with the dead and starting with the emperor.
"Kingdom" is a zombie movie at first glance, a political movie at second, and a prince's revenge at closer inspection. Zhu Zhixun, who will enter the palace after 12 years and wait for the crown prince, is still surnamed Li, but he is not so weak at all.
Li Cang, the prince of "Kingdom", is smart, alert, decisive and ambitious. In front of the rebels, he asks "how to bear the royal bloodline". In front of zombies, he insists that "that is my people". You can also find subtle clues. Of course, the prince was not born to understand the suffering of the people, but he saw a sudden change in a short time and learned to change in an instant. From being a first-time citizen, unable to smell the peculiar smell and unable to eat tree roots, to rewarding the people with his dried meat, from the fear of witnessing the transformation of a corpse to the determination to kill a zombie with a knife, from the high-ranking prince to the fleeing and hiding judge, Li Cang has learned When it comes to a more advantageous weapon outside the majestic imperial power, that is desire.
Granted, Kingdom is definitely a zombie movie. Virus infection, human disease, the way of disease, and the process of mutation cannot go out of the routine of traditional zombie movies. Zombies, first of all, are corpses. People are dead, but the corpse is still alive, but the so-called alive is only the behavior of the corpse alive. Not only can it move, but also need to eat and drink. Regardless of Zeng Ming's understanding of zombies, zombies are uncontrolled, crazy, irrational, and cruel groups. Therefore, in "Kingdom", the scene of tearing and biting the bloody scene, zombies flocking to the picture of stacking Arhats, the list is too numerous to mention, and the goosebumps can't stop watching.
However, the most creepy thing about "Kingdom" is that the zombies are not the suspicion of the common people, nor the plague of official rumors, but the product of the current politics. The source of zombies is the king of a country. However, no matter how fearful the zombies are, they are no match for the loss of control of desire.
It is conceivable that from ancient times to the present, how many emperors wished to live forever and ever, so the legends of divine doctors and Taoists, elixir and medicinal herbs emerged one after another, and Korean monarchs did not fall into this. It's just that the emperor pursues immortality, and the powerful ministers hope to die at the right time. So, when the emperor died, the genius doctor appeared like this with the grass of life and death. It is not so much a strategy of machinations that it actually violates the principles of nature. So the emperor became the head of the zombies.
When the factors of corruption are bred from the root, every leaf emits a vicious gas; when the monarch of a country becomes a zombie, every subject will lead to death.
No matter which country or version of the interpretation of zombies, no matter how powerful zombies are, they have weaknesses and lethal techniques. For example, zombies in "World War Z" are afraid of deadly viruses. For example, zombies in "I Am Legend" will hide in every light, and zombies in "Kingdom" can also be eliminated by beheading or burning them. Then, in "Kingdom", it is the ignorant people who are infected by the zombies, and the powerless civilians who fight the zombies desperately. Normal people turn into zombies. If the emergence of the first zombie is the emperor's insistence on life and the desire of power officials to manipulate power, the appearance of the second zombie is a mockery of the regime. Because eating the bodies of zombies is the minimum requirement for the hungry people to survive. When the requirement of survival becomes the condition for the spread of the virus, the collapse of a country's power is a dike of a thousand miles, and it is ashamed of zombies.
Zombies are just a form, they can be disguised as plagues, or they can be a little cold. What is scary is not how strong the virus is, what is scary is that it is man-made, and the gap between power and desire needs to be filled. Humans have created this virus that is not very powerful. Healthy people are not healthy, and sick people are only to deceive. Those who understand are fearless of human nature; those who are ignorant are even more fearless.
Watch TV shows as movies, reality as TV shows, people as monsters, and monsters as people. This is the value and meaning of the existence of "Kingdom". However, "Kingdom" hasn't ended yet, and the zombies are still going on, so if you haven't watched Kingdom (season 1) yet, don't watch it yet! Wait for the second season!
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