the only possible king lear today

Rating: 6/10 (21 January 2007)

i don't know, i think ran is not an up-to-date movie. too strong feelings for an era of mean feelings like ours. in ran a bloody old warrior is betrayed by two of his sons: only one is loyal but he's different from his father and his brothers. his elderly brothers are like his father, nothing can stop them on the way to the power. their betrayal and the following events are the old warrior's punishment for his crimes. the question: how could fathers expect loyalty from sons if they teach them to be so inhuman? well, i think a question like this is not so up-to-date. fathers don't teach so much these days, they are spoiled sons themselves of their women, like in shining, in competition with their children. maybe the only possible king lear today is vozvrashcheniye by zvyagintsev, kind of an upside-down king lear: an absent father who tries to restore his authority over children but fails because he can't give them welfare.