***SPOILERS*** Strange and anecdotal movie about evil and how in manifests itself in people in the person of honorably discharged US naval shipman Elvis Valderez, Gael Garcia Bernal.
You at first think that Elvis is a nice and friendly short of chap when you first lay eyes on him. Pleasant friendly and sweet talking, to the fairer sex, Elvis is in fact the Devil incarnate seeking to destroy not only his estranged father Fundamentalist Baptist Pastor David Sandow, William Hurt, but his entire family his sweet and virgin daughter Malerie, Pell James, God-fearing son Paul, Paul Dano, and faithful wife Twyla, Laura Harring. Getting a job at Bruno's as a pizza delivery boy and renting a room at a run down motel Elvis starts to put his plan into action to get his revenge against Pastor Sandow for leaving him fatherless and deserting his Mexican mother Yolanda before he was born.
Elvis first gets to work on the very impressionable Malerie who's completely taken by his sweet-talking and virgin olive oil charms by getting her to be bedded down by him before she even realizes that she's committing a sin in the eyes of God. What Malerie later finds out is that she's not only pregnant by Elvis but that he's in fact her half-brother! Paul seeing the under the cover operator Elvis sneaking out of Malerie's room confronts him at his place demanding that he never see his sister Malerie again. Elvis listening intently and showing no malice towards Paul, after all he was caught with his pants down, suddenly takes out a knife and plunges in into Paul's stomach killing him.
Elvis hides Paul's body in the Corpus Christi swamps where he's never found and is considered, by the local police, to have run away from home after his dad Pastor Sandow chewed Paul out for playing his, what Pastor Sandow considered, unchristian-like music. As the love affair between Elvis and Malerie gets a little out into the open Pastor Sandow decides to make peace with his wayward and lost son by taking him into his home as a replacement for the now lost, really dead, Paul.
Pastor Sandow's wife Twyla, who seems to know that Elvis is evil, is so upset by her husbands giving into Elvis' every whim that one afternoon she walks out of his church and almost gets herself killed playing in traffic. Pastor Sandow now completely taken over, like his daughter Malerie, by Elvis' ungodly charms goes so far as confessing his sins, by having an illicit affair and son out of wedlock, to a church full of parishioners, during the Sunday Services, that has half of them get up and walk out in disgust.
The brain-twisting conclusion of the movie "The King" is just too evil and shocking to write about. What the ending shows is just what an manipulative and unholy person this Elvis really is. Having destroyed what Pastor Sandow worked for his whole, after he found Christ, life Elvis has the unmitigated gall to ask him for both his help and forgiveness! And even worse the by now shell-shocked Pastor Sandow seems, as the movie unexpectedly comes to an end, to comply to Elvis' wishes!
You at first think that Elvis is a nice and friendly short of chap when you first lay eyes on him. Pleasant friendly and sweet talking, to the fairer sex, Elvis is in fact the Devil incarnate seeking to destroy not only his estranged father Fundamentalist Baptist Pastor David Sandow, William Hurt, but his entire family his sweet and virgin daughter Malerie, Pell James, God-fearing son Paul, Paul Dano, and faithful wife Twyla, Laura Harring. Getting a job at Bruno's as a pizza delivery boy and renting a room at a run down motel Elvis starts to put his plan into action to get his revenge against Pastor Sandow for leaving him fatherless and deserting his Mexican mother Yolanda before he was born.
Elvis first gets to work on the very impressionable Malerie who's completely taken by his sweet-talking and virgin olive oil charms by getting her to be bedded down by him before she even realizes that she's committing a sin in the eyes of God. What Malerie later finds out is that she's not only pregnant by Elvis but that he's in fact her half-brother! Paul seeing the under the cover operator Elvis sneaking out of Malerie's room confronts him at his place demanding that he never see his sister Malerie again. Elvis listening intently and showing no malice towards Paul, after all he was caught with his pants down, suddenly takes out a knife and plunges in into Paul's stomach killing him.
Elvis hides Paul's body in the Corpus Christi swamps where he's never found and is considered, by the local police, to have run away from home after his dad Pastor Sandow chewed Paul out for playing his, what Pastor Sandow considered, unchristian-like music. As the love affair between Elvis and Malerie gets a little out into the open Pastor Sandow decides to make peace with his wayward and lost son by taking him into his home as a replacement for the now lost, really dead, Paul.
Pastor Sandow's wife Twyla, who seems to know that Elvis is evil, is so upset by her husbands giving into Elvis' every whim that one afternoon she walks out of his church and almost gets herself killed playing in traffic. Pastor Sandow now completely taken over, like his daughter Malerie, by Elvis' ungodly charms goes so far as confessing his sins, by having an illicit affair and son out of wedlock, to a church full of parishioners, during the Sunday Services, that has half of them get up and walk out in disgust.
The brain-twisting conclusion of the movie "The King" is just too evil and shocking to write about. What the ending shows is just what an manipulative and unholy person this Elvis really is. Having destroyed what Pastor Sandow worked for his whole, after he found Christ, life Elvis has the unmitigated gall to ask him for both his help and forgiveness! And even worse the by now shell-shocked Pastor Sandow seems, as the movie unexpectedly comes to an end, to comply to Elvis' wishes!