By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The death and coronation of a king are treated as psychological and ritual events through which native loss and continuity are both expressed.
What the page emphasizes is not monarchy as spectacle but monarchy as a surviving symbolic form. Lament, dignity, and ritual become ways of holding together a people who have already undergone a deeper religious and cultural dispossession.
A directorial gloss that doubles as the section's coda. 'The death of the King is psy- / Logical (in lamenting etc) of / the ancestral, and just as real / death of the Native gods,' while 'The corination of the new King / represents A dignity in the natives / with their firm holding to symbol, / And ritual to bring joy to their / Lives in the face of their deep / loss.' The note treats monarchy not as spectacle but as surviving symbolic form, lament and ritual binding a dispossessed people together. The hand-set 'Ending / Part I' closes the Fiji film sequence.