In the ancient Western World, nature of society, the family, government and politics, religion, ideals and values of that period were all facing great changes. Thus, there were many specific people and things emerging in that special period. "ANTIGONE" and "The King is Dancing" are two wonderful videos which can show those changes in ancient Western World. First of all, I will talk about the "ANTIGONE". It is a video that can give us some information of ancient Greek. Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war, have both been killed in battle. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles will be honored and Polyneices disgraced. The rebel brother's body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lay unburied to become the food of carrion animals. Antigone and Ismene are the sisters of the dead brothers. Antigone wants to bury Polyneices' body, in defiance of Creon's edict. Ismene refuses to help her, fearing the death penalty, but she is unable to dissuade Antigone from going to do the deed by herself. A Sentry enters, fearfully reporting that the body has been buried to Creon. When, Creon knows Antigone do that, he is very angry, and imprisons Antigone in a cave. Antigone is fiancee of Creon's son. Therefore, his son kills himself after he begged his father but did not success. Creon's wife knows her son's dead feels very sad, and kills herself, too. At that time, Creon blames himself for everything that has happened, and, a broken man, he asks his servants to help him inside. The order he valued so much has been protected, and he is still the king, but he has acted against the gods and lost his child and his wife as a result. The Chorus closes by saying that although the gods punish the proud, punishment brings wisdom. From this story, we can see in the ancient Greek, religion took over really important status. People believed ideals and the values both depended on deity. Antigone firmly believed this point, and she extremely regarded family as important. Thus, she was not afraid of the Creon's power politics. She was an anachronism, because she dared to defy Creon established Thebes' law when everyone made life easy for themselves. For example, when Creon ordered "Polyneices' body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lay unburied to become the food of carrion animals.", no one dared to say "no" to him, even Chorus of Theban Elders flatter his command. However, Antigone did not obey Creon's power. She thought that Creon was defying God's command, and he was polluting clean Thebe City, so she could not allow it happen, even she would lose her life. Certainly, deep consideration, we could not say Creon wasn't an anachronism, because he wanted to make his majesty superior to the deity. It made the government he dominated was too tyranny. In fact, in the world of the past, these anachronisms emerged in endlessly, they made the government, politics, and values changing and changing. Some of them help make the world advance such as Antigone, who is a weak maiden to conquer a powerful ruler. Some of them are detrimental to the world, such as Creon, who wants to establish his own tyranny power. "ANTIGONE" this film successfully reveal the world of the past. It reveals the society which based on religion, kingship in power, and many anachronisms emerge up. "The King is Dancing" is another good film reveal the ancient Western World. In 17th century France, a royal command performance doesn't mean the monarch can simply sit back and admire the spectacle. At the court of Louis XIV, the King is the show. The young Louis used dance to project his image to the world and strengthen his hold on power during a turbulent time for the kingdom. The musical genius Jean-Baptiste Lully, a Florentine upstart of unbridled ambition, quickly gains the king's absolute trust. The King's rise is told in flashback through the eyes of the court composer, Jean-Baptiste Lully. Together with the poet and playwright Molière, they create elaborately choreographed ballets in which the agile young king takes the leading role. Sublime exercises in self-promotion, these dances see Louis transform himself from a shy, immature dauphin into the all powerful Sun King. As a teenager, Louis XIV, was the ostensive ruler of France, but his mother Anne of Austria, while Louis staged elaborate dance pieces set to the music of Lully. Years later, after Louis XIV had grown to adulthood, the more mature ruler took control of France's political and military affairs. As Louis confronted his European neighbors, he also established a French dance academy and commissioned Lully to write a number of new dance scores. Lully's flamboyant nature and open infidelity with both men and women earned him the enmity of the more conservative members of Louis XIV's court, but the King remained Lully's champion until health problems began to affect his ability to dance -- causing him to lose interest in performance, as well as in Lully's music. In the period that Louis and lully got well with each other, they rebelled the serious control of church, and created new forms of drama with great dramatist Moliere. The whole movie through music, dance, love to show the king Louis XIV of political activism and Versailles palace of political ecology. These are not easy and entertainment, but very masculine, express the male violence, and power, national strength. From this film, we can see life in 17th -century Europe was really precarious. The ubiquity of disease and the limited resources and techniques of medical science, the constant presence of war across the map of Europe, and the reality of poverty throughout European society, contributed to creating a world in which human existence could be ended quickly or even very early. Thus, art became a good product which was hopes and entertainment. However, religion's power limited the improving of art. When the nature of the society became to focus on art, the government leader should think about how to satisfy people. However, most people would like to be steady, they would not make them to be the anachronisms. Therefore, the king and Lully acted as the anachronisms. One hand, the king wanted to establish his own power. On the other hand, he loved creation in art. Thus, Louis XIV, Lully's religious values of the principal characters were different. They did not like the control of church in art creation, so they were against the control of church. They wanted to make the way of living more colorful. As anachronisms, they helped the ancient Europe World improving in art. Just because their bold innovation, European art culture would have later colorful. This film attempt to reveal the conflict between art and religion in the world of the past. Those beautiful musics, setting, actual events in the film which told a story that showed the real ancient French art, government, and religion. Regarding both works, the paramount concern should be they finally tell us anachronisms do not always detrimental, such as Antigone, Louis XIV, and Lully. They are helpful for the improving of society. From the conflict between religion and politics to the conflict between religion and art, we can see religion has extremely important role in the world of the past. These two films shows well shows the religion's two sides. In the "ANTIGONE" , religion is helpful, because it represents goodness and clean, it can be against the danger of tyranny. However, in the "The King is Dancing", religion is misleading, its conservative old views will block innovation and development of new things. Therefore, we cannot too worship one aspect, because over worship one thing is wrong and stupid. Society need all aspects of the coordinate development, and also need creative anachronisms to create more health overall world. History is our base, future will be better!