Watch: The King 2017 123movies, Full Movie Online – Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce explores how a country boy lost his authenticity and became a king while his country lost her democracy and became an empire..
Plot: A cultural portrait of the American dream at a critical time in the nation’s history. Set against the 2016 American election, The King takes a musical road trip across the country in Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls Royce.
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Is this an Elvis biography or social commentary?
This film can’t decide whether it’s an Elvis documentary or social commentary and these two subject don’t intermingle very well.The stated objective of the director is to explore how America has gone from Elvis to Donald Trump, and attempts to portrait the rise of fall of the King as an allegory for the demise of the American dream. The framework for relaying this story is a road trip in Elvis’ Rolls-Royce Phantom V through parts of the South but also New York City and the West, while juxtaposing interviews with locals, actors, and other social commentators with historic footage of Elvis.
As a brief biography of Elvis the film does an okay job, though it basically skims the surface of the known narrative – roughly what would appear on Wikipedia. There are no groundbreaking revelations.
But as social commentary, the film fails to deliver upon its promise. All the interviews, documentary footage and narration fail to come to a cohesive thesis about what’s changed. General exclamations about “an empire in decline” are repeated several times.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 162589
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Documentary
Director Eugene Jarecki
Writer Eugene Jarecki, Christopher St. John
Actors Elvis Presley, Eugene Jarecki, James Carville
Country United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Awards 1 win & 10 nominations
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