Absalom and Achitophel advice of the double agent Hushai over the good advice of Achitophel. Achitophel, realising that the rebellion is doomed to failure, goes home and hangs himself. Absalom is killed (against David's explicit commands) after getting caught by his hair in the thick branches of a great oak tree: "His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on" (NRSV 2 Sam. 18:9). The death of his son, Absalom, causes David enormous personal grief. A second allegory in the poem, beginning on line 425, is the
Son of a Lion one of our actors has been shot and killed, another kidnapped, while our production car was destroyed by an explosion in which its owner and his son also died. And yet, after all this, a group of extras from the film has left to join the Taliban." "Son of a Lion" grossed $124,888 at the box office. The film was released on DVD in Australia on 7 January 2009. The DVD includes deleted scenes, behind the scenes footage, and commentary by Gilmour and Hayat and Niaz Khan Shinwari. Critics have generally responded positively to the film. As of January 2010