 Beard? Life lessons in film and today we'll be making sense of life through the king Historical draw based around the English invasion of France and the battle of Agincourt There is battles and the battles are cool I like the one scene where the first wave of troops Runs into each other at some point. They're kind of just it's kind of like a mosh pit Because you're all so tired and bogged down and bog And armor and then you kind of just pushing each other around There's no even real weapons. You're just kind of like who's gonna fall over first. I think of a big theme for me in that was Power and how that changes relationships with people a lot of it is it kind of centers around that not only in terms of The main character, which is king Henry the fifth. I think yeah, how for instance the relationship between The future king and his close friend for a while when he be after he becomes king You know, he doesn't even really see his friend. His friend ended up just hangs it out the bar a lot of the time They have to kind of rebuild that trust and support with each other also all the advisors that were part of his Father's Advisor team. I mean, I don't even know if they were even very trustworthy or close with his father They're not the most loyal I think that's the whole point of the movie to show The complexities of being in power and you see that in different ways for Henry when he does assume the role of king The relationship with sir john changes for a certain period of time And it's not because Henry feels like the relationship should end or wants it to end It's just because he's completely inundated with this overwhelming burden of Being the king twinning cut in an entire country And also the burden of his dad's legacy and him wanting to distance himself from from that people who knew that they had a relationship Point out. Oh, well, he's king. He has no business with you now You know, you were just for when he just was trying to have fun at east sheep And yeah, and he was just using you and now it's over because he has the power and he doesn't need you anymore Which is something that does happen. Sometimes with people I think that's where you know whether or not the relationship was solid Yeah, it was in this case because he comes back and to ask him if he'd be his Yeah, this is military advisor. Yeah, he's don't have friends. I like that line. He's like Things don't have friends. That was great too. I don't think he I think it aligns with what The reality is when you're in power The not having friends the people that you are surrounded by as a king There are also people who are in certain Positions of power like the clergy, for example And so these people all of them have vested interests in your ruling And these are your advisors, but they're not just because they're your advisors does not mean that they're altruistically Advising you or supporting you or even supporting you. They're just serving their own agendas, isn't it that might Mean you getting manipulated as the king because you're the ultimate. You're the person who ultimately You know signs off Whatever decisions isn't it people are dying and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere He doesn't even know why he's there because he wasn't manipulated as we later find out by one of the noblemen, right? And so he's he needs support and sir john is very realistic about well I can't chime in here. There isn't anything That I have to add and that's great too, you know, like because he does he does later talk about how You know a lot of people who are in these positions always just Have say stuff even if it's not Relevant they say it just to to maintain their position to seem like they're of value Because if you're an advisor to the king, you always have to come up with stuff You feel like you always have to come up with stuff Otherwise why are you an advisor to the king? But the problem is with a lot of people in those positions that will say stuff even if it's not relevant And that's also very true. I think because ultimately people do Worry about not feeling not being seen to be valuable and therefore becoming disposable, isn't it? Yeah, the the the the one advisor in particular that you find out really was out for his own interest to get more land. He's got the greatest Like schemie advisor voice. I noticed that You gotta the raspier the better classic like Snake like advisor that's whispering Non truths in your ear is great. Very good voice. It's it's it's a coming-of-age story Realistically when you think about it because this guy there's so many things He doesn't want the leadership And he doesn't want the darkness that comes to the leadership that he sees his dad was consumed by malice Mis-trust for everyone and the nobody in England exactly so and then England is you know in shambles basically like civil war Etc. He comes into adulthood and just Based disillusionment disillusionment really because I think he had a romanticized idea of what leadership could look like and Even as I remember he goes to go to get his brother His brother decides. Okay. I'm gonna go to war and he's like, I am gonna go And try and convince him out of it and he's like, I'm gonna I'll I'll fight this guy So that if yeah, let's let's have a duel so that this war does not happen And then we save a lot of these soldiers and he does indeed fight the guy and he wins and the guy dies That should have been that and that that's that and I think this is the beginning of Him transitioning to adulthood really because he still is naive right like that contrast between him wanting peace versus his dad But then him murdering someone he doesn't kind of realize that you know like this piece that he wants Requires you to actually murder the very murder people for the sake of saving the lives of other people And so that's the beginning. I think of him Transitioning out of youth into adulthood Because the more the movie progresses obviously he goes to war and everything and even afterwards when he kills the guy The advisor that had been that manipulated into war in the first place You know, he just does it just very like stabs him in the head, you know And it's never easy of course to keep to murder but just that instinct to do that, you know what I mean? That's where you're like, okay, this is final And he's just kind he's at that point come to terms with the reality of Of power It's a classic coming of king movie and another lesson that he he got I think is you know He tries to almost dies to save his brother and save a lot of lives from being lost needlessly By going doing the one-on-one duel and then he wins And then his brother still dies because his brother you can't you know, he's hoping he could control His brother's need to prove himself the brother still decided to go into battle anyway, and then he died You know, so it's that things like you can do everything you can to try and Protect people or dissuade people from things that they're gonna do what they want to do is they've made it up in their mind You know, yeah, you can only actually control so much. Yeah, I think it portrayed how hard it is to be Good in the way that people that we think goodness looks Um in a position of power because the guy I remember that the the bad advisor says you wanted peace So that's why I gave you more So you listen to the people the crowd is happy right now. No more civil strike People are happy you have peace you had to go basically had to go to war for that And I and that's really even though obviously this guy manipulated hell into war Because he had vested interests, of course, you know, but that's also a realistic thing because even outside even before He this he went to war with friends. He was already You know with that dual killing people to save other people's lives And so that's the thing with leadership, right leadership some a lot of the times not sometimes Um comes with making decisions where people get hurt And you know that the decision you're going to make is going to kill other people Or hurt other people in some way because you can't Everybody you can't save every no decision helps everyone. Yeah, and so you then have to do that where Either you're okay kill one person for the for the greater good Or kill an entire or just go to war with an entire country for your own personal Interest as a country And so those things are hard to do and those are things that uh hell wasn't aware of when he goes into it and I think it's also really tough for someone who is really good because People do there are a lot of people that go into politics. For example In the in the modern age these things apply still still, right? And people will go into power into politics altruistically And really try their best to to do good and to support their community and be transparent However, you aren't alone in politics You're dealing with a whole lot of people and a lot of other people Have their own interests and so then you have to every single day you are surrounded by people that are trying to Be forcing you to go against your value system And also in and sometimes you find yourself having to go against your own value system in order to Pursue something that is altruistic in the end And so I think that's I don't know like something that people that are good that go into power End up grappling with in a way his advisor was right and that you can achieve peace through victory But it's also easy to say from someone that You know is just an advisor. He's never he's got no skin in the game apart from vested interests, right? Sometimes people think I guess there's some skin like the clergyman is like let's move along the siege You know, I've got some money riding on this. So in a sense, he's got some skin in the game But it's not physical skin. You have a lot of wars um in history that were fought for companies, for example and A lot of wars that are still fought for companies because if there's war then there's are there's a need for arm Arms and then who makes that those a lot of conglomerates that benefit from these things and And sometimes these wars are created for that And so but then as people you are they're thinking that this is an altruistic thing, right? You are there thinking that oh, this is a noble cause And um, it helps to think it's a noble cause. Yeah, it definitely does speeches are good before battle Exactly There is a lot I guess that speaks to the propaganda behind leadership the need for propaganda in leadership You want a soldier to feel powerful and confident and so you are going to feed him or her what they need to hear To give them that purpose that's going to Carry them through the battle carry them through killing someone without thinking Of how awful it is to take another person's life And overall as citizens, even if you aren't going to war having Uh a leader that is good at giving you that sense of purpose and idealizing going to war It gives you that sense of security. You don't and or the comfort of feeling like you aren't Uh responsible for the deaths of so many other people But that's just the reality and I mean even after um hell finds out that they went to war for nothing I we don't see it, but you can see that he's not he's not going to he's just going to let it be Yeah, he's not going to tell everyone Yeah, he's going to marry this girl. Yeah, he goes and says all I want you to be is to be real and true with me and he has succumbed to the reality And then the advisor I think was also right in the way that he's like I gave you basically the legacy You were hoping for it to become a great king, you know, look what you did you united two kingdoms together Yeah humans Get so much from stories. It can be stories can help us learn lessons avoid mistakes Learn about who we are where we came from and also exactly stories can help us Um and it comes to propaganda stories. Um it can help us relieve our soul of certain compromises or things that we put ourselves through Or or decide to do right? It's all these stories that we tell ourselves whether they become Rationalizations, there's still stories. Yeah, you know, so stories are such a crucial part in functioning As a person, you know, yeah stories of of of ruling legitimacy You know, uh king Henry has a conversation with his bride to be You're saying well, you know, it was we had claim over this land You know, and she's like, ah, no monarchy is legitimate. You're the son of a usurper. Come on This is all made up. We've all just decided that it's legitimate. Yeah People who are actually in leadership positions and their Children or families, they're very well aware of how little Their authority Means versus the people they rule over the people they will uh over put them on this pedestal as these Things entities be that are above humans. I think of course There is also the fact of if you are someone who is in that position Obviously depends on as well on on the personalities because like the dauphin and hell's brother You if you have people like that that come from privilege, right? They are very narcissistic, realistic way, right? And they are happy to be in that position where people do place them on this pedestal and they are they completely You know, just milk the heck out of this Family these families that they've been born into those are the kinds of you do have that too If you do have um a monarchy, you would probably want someone like uh, like how taking over as king versus the brother Yeah, yes, you can walk the walk You'll put himself in the mud. Yeah, so that's basically all I have to say about it. All I have to say about that What'd you guys think of the king? You know with some some other uh, things about power that uh, that you noticed about it Let us know And until next time that's a wrap