Coup! Against Who?

Be honest. Imagine David Beckham coming to your house and peaking into your living room and asking you: Would you share your pool with your servants? Be honest. What about your drink? Your house? Your glories? Your wife? Be honest. The movie Coup has many layers but here is my take on it. Hope you have already watched it, otherwise beware of spoilers. If you have already watched it, this article might give you a new perspective and urge you to watch the movie again. So, let the Coup begin. 

There is a place between overseas and the city. There is a place between being cruel and being naive. 

There is a place between biography and fiction.

There is a place between being lonely and being alone.

Horton family needed a new cook. We don’t know what happened to the old cook. Floyd Monk needed a family because his partner at the tavern killed himself. When he arrived at Egg Island, he wanted to be Jay. He wanted to swim in his pool, he wanted his wife. Jay, on the other hand, wanted to be more like Floyd. Be brave, do what it takes to be a real hero and kill if needed. Jules wanted a husband like Floyd. A real hero, not the one who “lies”. She also wanted to write fiction. She wanted to use her creativity. The servants wanted to be a musician and a doctor. 

At the end of the movie, when Jay kills Floyd Monk, Jules says he was innocent. Jay disagrees with her and says he was not innocent at all. Jules asks what his crime was. Let me answer this one for you. His crime was being innocent. So, at the end of the movie, the thing that died was innocence. And what was innocent for women, was not innocent for men. 

There is a place between who you are and who you want to be. 

There is a place between dreams and reality.

There is a place between being conscious and unconscious. 

There is a place between men and women.

So, the coup was against who? It was against innocence. The place between all these things belonged to innocence. Not knowing, and knowing. The real Floyd Monk, and the one who took his place.

So glad that we made this clear but I have one more questions: Why is his name Monk anyway? To tinker the movie this time in symbols please continue with this one.