Movie Review - You Can't Please Everyone All the Time

The terrible father is a character that repeats throughout the entire movie. You see manifestations of the tyrannical father continually through the movie in different characters, like he's played out by different roles. There's this old idea, i think it comes from chekhov, and the idea is that if you set a play up and there's a gun, a rifle or a pistol on a table in the first act, it'd better have been used. By the third act, it shouldn't be there at all. And so this isn't accidental that this little king character doesn't like what's going on, or that he shows up....