I watched again a movie named ‘King and the Clown’ which was released a few years ago. When I watched for the first, I became just a fan of that movie like many people did but I didn’t think much of that movie. I just liked beautiful images and lee jun-gee who was one of main characters. However I felt different feeling when I watched it again yesterday and it was really different movie because it is director’s version which have some scenes added.

I thought the main story of this movie was about two clowns who lived lives full of ups and downs. I thought it was side story love between King and Gong-gil. However, I saw the director’s version in a different view because there were many scenes which show love between King and Gong-gil and also love between Jang-sang and Gong-gil. I could definitely read love triangle and the situation was more persuasive than the version before. If I were a director of this movie I would focus more on the love triangle than others to make the story clearer. (I felt it’s not quite clear what the director wanted to say or there are too many things the director wanted to say)

However, I guess there was more than what the director wanted to say. Since it was all man whose are in the love triangle, the story had to face homosexual issue if the director focused on that. It’s true that there were scenes showing homosexual love in original version but those were not clear enough. That could be read as strong friendship and admiration. The fact that many scenes cut in original version but added in director’s version makes me think that it was the director’s intention to avoid homosexual issue by deleting scenes  and making the story vague.

I don’t think the director’s choice was bad. I am not saying that this movie was supposed to be homosexual love story. However, I think it could be better if the director chose one theme to focus on. I could see director’s hesitation and lingering throughout the movie and it was not comfortable to see. I would also hesitate if I were the director, but we know that there are saying ” simple is best.”