Once The Double King Analysis

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Artists who can express their visions and dreams in a manner that seems irrational are often known as surrealists. Surrealism can come in the form of both paintings and videos. Upon first glance, a surrealist work of art is often perceived as ‘making no sense’ but within that nonsense a message is conveyed. Youtuber Felix Colgrave is an example of a modern day surrealist artist who expresses the points he intends to make through strange and discomforting videos. One of the most popular of Felix’s videos is called DOUBLE KING. This is a nine minute and forty-seven second youtube video that starts out making a little sense, but as the video progresses the events and situations become more and more baffling and mind-boggling. At the start of …show more content…

This represents the tendency for greed to drive people out of control, especially after being driven to murder. There is even a point a little over halfway through the video where the Double King appears to turn against his own people/castle, shooting at it after having made his way onto the crown of the royal looking mountain. This represents the extent to which greed will drive people to react, even turning against those who have shown nothing but support. Once the Double King makes his way through the forest on the top of the mountain, he becomes paranoid and obsessed with obtaining more crowns and more power, so much to the point where he cuts off his own finger to get the crown he spotted on it, so mad that he can no longer even recognize his own …show more content…

Even in death the creature is obsessed with crowns and power, Double King becoming the embodiment of greed to the point where even in death, he constantly attempts to steal the crown of what can be assumed to be the God of Death. When the God of Death grows tired with the creature’s temper tantrum and annoyances, he willingly gives his crown to Double King, who then runs away and ends up floating into space. Double King ultimately floats out of existence. All of the obsession, actions, and greed amounted to nothing in the

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