It is not usual for me to get up and decide as a task to go watch
out a movie. Specifically if it is an English one, then it is all the more rare
a scenario for me. But this one actually intrigued me from it’s title itself.
Yes, I am talking about the Kingsman: The Secret Service.
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I agree that initially the title sounded resembling to something from the period era; but I am thankful to my friend +Vishal Dogra who mentioned the popular dialogue from the movie, which actually ended up as a sales pitch for me to watch this one. And so I ended up watching the Kingsman: The Secret Service.
No, I never intended to write this post to serve as my unique
review on this present age classic(just like so many out there), but actually to list down all that I
gathered as a new learning from this entertainer. So here it goes:
1. The people at the Spy
organisations are good at lying
It takes a good amount of training to hone
an individual into the likes of a spy. Surely, that involves being mentally
stoic, and sub-involving not letting out the truth so easily or at times never
at all, irrespective of how hard the situation seems to be. But I never knew
that people there could be such straight-faced liars at literally all the
times.
For an instance, the character Merlin
played by Mark Strong lied to the testing-to-be-recruited bunch of kids that
few amongst them could end up losing their lives and the organisation will not
be responsible for that. This particular lie was a big one; within it, it
included a lot many. For an example, the other girl in the batch who lost her
life due to drowning in the first test was never really taking the hurdle test.
In fact, it was later revealed that she was a Kingsman staff instead.
Then, the parachute hurdle thingy; none of
the parachutes were handicapped. They all worked and did open for each and
every one. But Merlin again lied about that one; and so the series of testing
the other person's personality by the means of telling an untruth kept on going
a number of times in the movie. Hence, I finally gave up counting them.
No matter if a lie for betterment is
better than a truth; but the truth is that a lie is a lie even if spoken
conveniently by a Kingsman spy organisation.
2. One should never throw away
gifts, even if they seem useless
Does anyone who has seen the movie even
doubt as to what would have happened if our Eggsy or his mother had thrown away
the medallion locket gifted by the character of Colin Firth? Surely, then the
future for the Hart family would have been doomed. The entire story takes a
mammoth positive leap the moment Eggsy uses the number engraved on the back of
the gifted medal and speaks out the secret message.
With that I did learn something of
prominence - not to throw away any token of appreciation, no matter how
insignificant it may seem at any point of time.
3. One should be cautious
of free gifts from big corporations
I have lost the count to the number of times I have received a
conditioner free with a shampoo or scrubbing pad free with a dish washer and a
DVD player free with an LCD screen. But how much I am happy to think that I
never ever should receive a house with roaches embedded in corners or something
even worse - kids free with a husband!!
Now getting back to
the movie; receiving a free mobile or a telecom network connection from a big
corporation turned out really freaky. It was like getting to become a confident
first time murderer for literally at no cost. Not sure if someone commoner like
us would be a game for it; though if the secret was out in open before
distributing the freebie stuff, progeny from the mafia fraternity could have
saved some money.
4. The rich ones also eat a McBurger
Ahhh this one was
a complete shocker for me. Cause I kind of dream loud to be so rich one day
that I could dine at the Urasawa at the Beverly Hills for some Sushi. Though I
consider my writing abilities as excellent whenever I have earned enough money
to indulge myself to a smoked salmon and some deliciously cooked
butter-garlic-pepper sauteed crabs. Also, every day before hitting the bed I am
grateful to my stars for not losing my life due to starvation. I know it got a little too
dramatic....
But, but the
billionaire philanthropist character of Samuel Jackson washed away all my
assumptions of dining preferences of the rich and famous. He did offer his
esteemed guest of honor a Mcburger from McDonalds. I mean can you believe it?
If ever I get to
connect with Mr. Matthew Vaughn; I would like to know from him the reason for
depicting a rich man with such queer hosting demeanor.
5. Princesses also indulge in
kinky stuff.
I had to keep
this one as the last one for all the naughty ones out there. If you have seen
the movie, I know you must have enjoyed it for this one especially. I agree
that people belonging to the royalty are basically human beings with a lot of
extra riches; but the sexual favors that the princess was ready to cascade on
Eggsy were unbelievable. I am so not going to put any spoilers here; you will
have to see it to surprise yourself. By the way, I later got to know that that
particular part was dropped in few geographically altered versions of the movie
so as to comply with the censor rules being governed there. This last
piece was information was also sourced from +Vishal
Dogra.
Now over to you......
This was basically my learning from the entire movie; please
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