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Day 14 - a movie that no one would expect you to love - The King and the Clown

In my asian horror film class, I thought Kam Wu-seong did a pretty good acting job in R-Point, and  looking him up, I found this gem. It’s about a King who falls in love with a clown (minstrel) whose troupe satires the king’s court. It’s a political story where these street performers, even lower than commoners, draw out the emotions of the crazed king and everything starts falling apart.

I recommend this to EVERYONE. The cinematography, set design, costumes are all gorgeous. Seriously, it’s beautiful. But even better is the acting and screenplay. The emotions carried through the words and actions…I love they way the story unfolds. It’s extremely captivating. I love every bit of this movie, it breaks my heart and sets it free….I wanted to put this movie on my list because it doesn’t seem like a film of everyone’s flavor, but I think everyone should give it a chance.

originally i was going to reblog without the commentary, but i agree so much with basically everything in it that, um just deal. (and go watch it.) it’s very shakespeare-as-seen-by-the-rude-mechanicals, a love letter to the ancient (come baaack) namsadang tradition, and the costumes and colors and sets in this movie make me want to die