A Good Representation of non-Shakespearean Tragedy

Rating: 8/10 (30 June 2014)

"The man who would be king" is yet another addition to the numbers of films that fall into the genera of tragedy. From the beginning of you story the viewer feels the set up to a tragedy seeing as a clearly distressed and pained second party to the main character recites the story. As typical of a tragedy the flaw in Dravot is either that he takes pure coincidence for fate or that he neglects the existence of a real god. Regardless of which view you as the viewer take this flaw leads him to abandon the advice of his friend and refuse twice his pleas to escape as planned. Dravot dooms himself when he remains in his place as a god when he is not a god. All in all the movie is very good, however i had never heard of it, and would never have if it had not been given to me as a present. This is a film which deserves a wider recognition and is in all a very good addition to works of tragedy.