I really enjoyed this film. What could be better than two hours of one of those great Brit actresses walking through palaces and Scottish highlands all while acting emtionally understated and discomfitted? Very fascinating to watch.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the script wasn\u2019t what it should have been. It felt unbalanced to me. The opening few minutes were terribly written, and then suddenly there were a few scenes which were well-written. Made me think that there must have been two or more writers operating. At least one of whom was pedestrian. <\/p>\n
The movie tried to be about how the Queen was a woman of another time \u2013 a time when personal restraint and private dignity and quiet courage were virtues. Mirren\u2019s great QE2 doesn\u2019t fit in the brave new world of her people with its tabloids and its voyeurism and its need to be coddled and patronized. Thematically, the movie loses its way, but basically, this contrast makes for the central problem of the film \u2013 and it is a worthy reflection.<\/p>\n
Another issue in the film is why the world fell apart when Diana died. The film doesn\u2019t know. The Queen doesn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
I know.<\/p>\n
The crowds went crazy when Diana died because of guilt.<\/p>\n
We all know that Diana was not good enough to have merited the outpouring of love that accompanied her death. You know, the death that came when she was speeding away with her latest playboy lover instead of being with her adolescent sons back home? Not to step all over my point, but, come on. The crowds weren\u2019t crying because of the terrible loss that Diana would be to the sorry world. They were crying to absolve themselves of complicity in her death.<\/p>\n
Everybody intuits that the paparazzi were acting on the celebrity-obsessed mob\u2019s behalf. They weren\u2019t taking pictures for the dwellers on the planet Zondor, now, were they? Pictures of Diana commanded millions BECAUSE the mobs plunked down billions to stare at them. <\/p>\n
Bringing flowers to Diana\u2019s grave, weeping and hurling abuse at \u201cthe media\u201d and \u201cthe royals\u201d were all defense mechanisms on our global part to evade our own self-critique. Try and drown out with \u201cCandle in the Wind\u201d the inner voice that calls you to compunction, \u201cDiana died because you couldn\u2019t stop staring.\u201d <\/p>\n
Let the one who never gaped at a photo of the Princess, who never watched the interview, who never read an article about her latest love, cast the first stone.<\/p>\n
Anyway, The Queen<\/em> is a pretty good film. More fascinating than I expected for its look at the inner life of royal people. Also cool for its ultimately sympathetic portrayal of QE2 as a noble relic.<\/p>\n We decree the film good and we bestow our grateful thanks to the filmmakers of the realm.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I really enjoyed this film. What could be better than two hours of one of those great Brit actresses walking through palaces and Scottish highlands all while acting emtionally understated and discomfitted? Very fascinating to watch. Unfortunately, the script wasn\u2019t what it should have been. It felt unbalanced to me. The opening few minutes were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n