A Midsummer Night's Dream Summary

A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place in Athens. Theseus, the Duke of Athens, is
planning his marriage with Hippolyta, and as a result he is a planning a large
festival.Egeus enters, followed by his daughter Hermia, her beloved Lysander, and her
suitorDemetrius. Egeus tells Theseus that Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, wanting instead to
marry Lysander. He asks for the right to punish Hermia with death if she refuses to obey.
Theseus agrees that Hermia's duty is to obey her father, and threatens her with either entering a
nunnery or marrying the man her father chooses. Lysander protests, but is overruled by the law.
He and Hermia than decide to flee by night into the woods surrounding Athens, where they can
escape the law and get married. They tell their plan to Helena, a girl who is madly in love with
Demetrius. Hoping to gain favor with Demetrius, Helena decides to tell him about the plan.
Some local artisans and workmen have decided to perform a play for Theseus as a way to
celebrate his wedding. They choose Pyramus and Thisbe for their play, and meet to assign the
roles. Nick Bottom gets the role of Pyramus, and Flute takes the part of Thisbe. They agree to
meet the next night in the woods to rehearse the play.
Robin Goodfellow, a puck, meets a fairy who serves Queen Titania. He tells the fairy that his
King Oberon is in the woods, and that Titania should avoid Oberon because they will quarrel
again. However, Titania and Oberon soon arrive and begin arguing about a young boy Titania has
stolen and is caring for. Oberon demands that she give him the boy, but she refuses.
Oberon decides to play a trick on Titania and put some pansy juice on her eyes. The magical
juice will make her fall in love with first person she sees upon waking up. Soon after Puck is sent
away to fetch the juice, Oberon overhears Demetrius and Helena in the woods.
Demetrius deserts Helena in the forest, leaving her alone. Oberon decides that he will change this
situation, and commands Robin to put the juice onto Demetrius's eyes when he is sleeping. He
then finds Titania and drops the juice onto her eyelids. Robin goes to find Demetrius, but instead
comes across Lysander and accidentally uses the juice on him.
By accident Helena comes across Lysander and wakes him up. He immediately falls in love with
her and starts to chase her through the woods. Together they arrive where Oberon is watching,
and he realizes the mistake. Oberon then puts the pansy juice onto Demetrius's eyelids, who upon
waking up also falls in love with Helena. She thinks that the two men are trying to torment her
for being in love with Demetrius, and becomes furious at their protestations of love.
The workmen arrive in the woods and start to practice their play. They constantly ruin the lines
of the play and mispronounce the words. Out of fear of censorship, they decide to make the play
less realistic. Therefore the lion is supposed to announce that he is not a lion, but only a common
man. Bottom also feels obliged to tell the audience that he is not really going to die, but will only
pretend to do so. Puck, watching this silly scene, catches Bottom alone and puts an asses head on
him. When Bottom returns to his troupe, they run away out of fear. Bottom then comes across
Titania, and succeeds in waking her up. She falls in love with him due to the juice on her eyes,
and takes him with her.

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Lysander and Demetrius prepare to fight one another for Helena. Puck intervenes and leads them
through the woods in circles until they collapse onto the ground in exhaustion. He then brings the
two women to same area and puts them to sleep as well.
Oberon finds Titania and releases her from the spell. He then tells the audience that Bottom will
think is all a dream when he wakes up. He further releases Lysander from the spell. Theseus
arrives with a hunting party and finds the lovers stretched out on the ground. He orders the
hunting horns blown in order to wake them up.
The lovers explain why they are in the woods, at which point Egeus demands that he be allowed
to exercise the law on Hermia. However, Demetrius intervenes and tells them that he no longer
loves Hermia, but rather only loves Helena. Theseus decides to overbear Egeus and let the lovers
get married that day with him. Together they return to Athens.
Bottom wakes up and thinks that he has dreamed the entire episode. He swiftly returns to Athens
where he meets his friends. Together they head over to Theseus's palace. Theseus looks over the
list of possible entertainment for that evening and settles on the play of Pyramus and Thisbe.
Bottom and the rest of his company perform the play, after which everyone retires to bed.
Puck arrives and starts to sweep the house clean. Oberon and Titania briefly bless the couples
and their future children. After they leave Puck asks the audience to forgive the actors is they
were offended. He then tells the audience that if anyone disliked the play, they should imagine
that it was only a dream.

Summary of A COMPANY MAN

A Company Man opens with a bang, as protagonist Hyeong-do (So Ji-Sub)
casually discusses work with his colleague, the less-experienced Ra-Hoon (Kim
Dong-Joon), before entering a building and calmly gunning down the people inside.
Its an appalling sequence, but one that sets the tone for the cold professionalism
that Hyeong-do and Ra-Hoon live by for them, assassination is just business as
usual. Though they report to cubicles and answer to loud-mouthed bosses day after
day, all of the employees at Hyeong-dos company are actually ruthless contract
killers.
Though one of the best and brightest in the workplace, Hyeong-do is dissatisfied
with such a brutal lifestyle. Rapidly tiring of what he sees as a dead-end job, Hyeongdo wishes for a way out of the company, away from a line of work which haunts him
more with every waking moment. When he meets single mother Yoo Su-Yeon (Lee MiYeon), Hyeong-do can finally imagine a future without the company, and quits.
However, his employers see any retiree as a loose end and immediately send their
best assassins after him. Backed into a corner and stripped of all other options,
Hyeong-do unleashes a furious wave of vengeance on his former employers,
determined to bring the entire company to its knees.
Possibly the cleverest part of A Company Man is how fully it commits to its idea of
the cubicle contract killer. Reporting most days to a high-rise office building, behind
a cluttered desk, Hyeong-do feels just as trapped and restless as most average
cubicle-dwellers. The only time he gets out of the office is on assignments, when he
coldly and efficiently takes out targets only to anticlimactically lumber back to his
desk afterwards. The typical office nuisances are still a problem; a rude secretary,
the arrogant overseer and hot-headed colleagues gunning for a promotion (literally)
all put in appearances. There are some nice touches around the workplace as well;
in the binders on employees desk lie Berettas in place of briefs, and each employee
is decked out from head to toe in knives.The other aspect of A Company Man that
really works is its action. Under the keen eye of writer/director Lim Sang-Yoon, the
film pulls off some truly audacious shots that send the audience hurtling over
railings, through bullet holes in car roofs, and under a hail of gunfire, to name a few.
Even the less inventive shots are exhilarating to watch, mostly because of Lims
relentlessly furious pace. So and Kim are also both more-than-capable action stars,
racing through the fight scenes at breakneck speeds and with an unflappable
coolness that must have taken a lot of time and energy to master.
Unfortunately, A Company Man cant maintain the same momentum during its
dialogue-driven scenes, which are a surprisingly large chunk of the movie. Though
So is terrific as the conflicted contract killer with a heart of gold, communicating
countless emotions with a single glance, the films story of revenge is too derivative
to stand the weight of supporting players who fail to convince us of much at all. No
one else is even close to Sos level, and the film suffers in scenes where Lee or Kwak
Do-Won (playing Hyeong-dos loathsome boss Kwon Jong-tae) are called upon to act
against or alongside him. Theyre simply not up to the challenge, and so A Company
Man repeatedly stagnates when it should excite.

The best of these Korean revenge thrillers captivate even when the guns are in their
holsters no, especially then but A Company Man only truly exhibits signs of life
once the bullets start flying. Lims mistake in penning the script the way he did was
that he left too much time between shootouts without building tension, and so the
movies narrative stalls. Its more the fault of the supporting actors than his, but A
Company Mans numerous scenes of exposition drag unnecessarily and could have
benefitted greatly from the same tight direction that Lim utilizes during his action
scenes.
Lims tale of an earnest hitman falling in love feels disappointingly familiar, revisiting
the same genre beats of better films that came before it without contributing
anything substantial of its own. Action fans will immediately pick up on the directors
talent for directing scenes of bullet-heavy carnage, and may enjoy the film because
of them. Regrettably, there arent nearly as many action sequences as there should
have been, and theres absolutely no excuse for how clear it is that the rest of A
Company Man is simply killing time between them.