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The King is a revenge film. I usually like revenge films, the best one being Oldboy. If you haven't seen Oldboy then first you are out of your mind but second it's a fukin MUST see. One of my favorites and everyone i know that has seen it has loved it. Enough about Oldboy though.
A lot of this movie is based on suprises so i am not going to ruin it for you but i will tell you a few things about it. The King begins with a young man going to meet his long lost father who is a pastor at an evangelical church. No one knows about this guy because the Pastor keeps it a secret all these years. After they meet up peoples lives slowly start to deteriorate until eventually all hell breaks loose. It is very William Shakespear like and if you enjoy Shakespear i garuntee you will enjoy this movie.
William Hurt plays the pastor while Paul Dano plays his religious son. You may remember Dano from "Their will be blood" in which he played another crazy religious character. He is very good at it.
This movie slowly disturbs until the end, which is fantastic. Check it out.
The King Review
Posted by Troy Lightfoot at 10:29 PM
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i agree it was awesome!!!
I can't believe you saw this and didn't tell me! Silvia and I saw this a year ago at the Philly International Film Fest. First off, the main actor (Gael Garcia Bernal) is one of my favorite actors. So this was a must see for me. Second, I didn't like it at first but then I let sit in my brain for a while and it really got to me. The kind of films that you like where it may take a day or two to realize what you just watched. All in all a great film and bit fucked. If Aronofsky had directed it I think our heads would have exploded because of how dark it would be. You should really netflix more films with Gael Garcia Bernal. He has a made a lot of films in the same disturbing way as this one.
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