Park Ji-hoon Remembers the Eyes of a Deposed King

Park Ji-hoon vividly recreated the tragic life of the young King Danjong, capturing fear, emptiness, anger, resignation, and even self-compassion. His performance made the tragedy of Danjong even more deeply felt.

The 'Danjong Syndrome' shows a fundamental mourning for a victim of history. It reflects the public's discomfort with historical records that dismiss the lives of coup victims as if they were without value.

Art possesses a great power of mourning. The film 'Hamnet' fills in the imaginative gaps between the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet and the birth of the tragedy 'Hamlet,' showing how the grief of losing a son can be sublimated into great art.

The pain of losing a loved one makes us feel the finiteness of human life. Humans accept and mourn this pain through religion or art, and tragedy is born in this process. Art allows us to contemplate tragedy and, through empathy, to affirm it.

The record and memory of art transcend death. Like Shakespeare's son Hamnet and the ill-fated King Danjong, the lives of not only famous people but also all those who lived simply continue to live in the memories of those left behind. Particularly poignant deaths are mourned and remembered even more.