As the saying goes, "one show for three women", "The Favourite" is worthy of a wonderful show among women's plays. The two female partners are competing for favor, and Anne, who is the queen, is also competing for favor. This is a struggle between women about love and power, but it has nothing to do with men.
The rhythm is good, and the chapters are arranged clearly and tightly. It can be said to be an exquisite and high-level literary film, and it also conforms to the theme of court intrigue. The length limitation of the film also led to more foreshadowing of the work in the processing of the lens, "planning the layout", which produced a sense of horror. The music drives the rhythm. In the film, the footsteps of Abigail or Sarah and the ticking of the watch set off the tense atmosphere, and the extremely quiet or sharp and gorgeous music seems to tell some kind of depression or rupture.
If you compare this movie with the British drama "Ming Shu", Ming Shu is fancy but not exaggerated, and "The Favourite" is so high-profile and funny that it makes people feel absurd. A close-up shot of the duck competition shortly at the beginning of the film. The nobles watching the game jumped up and down with angry eyes, white faces and red lips. The drunkenness of court life is in stark contrast to the loneliness of the Queen and Abigail. The Queen's life is confined to a room, and Abigail's charm and "weakness" make her only fight alone. Furthermore, the exaggerated wig makeup of the Conservative Party leader and Colonel Maas, the Queen's badger-like makeup, and the faces of Abigail and the Queen at the end of the film are gradually covered by dense rabbits...
Trauma may be the origin of all deformities. Anne has many traumas. From her own description, she can see her childhood abuse, being rescued by Sarah, having endured unimaginable physical and mental trauma, losing 17 children, and enduring physical illnesses in her old age. Huge torture... Apparently she had become so fragile that she couldn't face the pain and had to retreat into a childlike form for love and attention. (Apparently her disappointment with men stems from a fear of losing children.) At the same time she has child aggression, her love is based on absolute attention and love, and she is a combination of sadism and masochism.
The Duchess Sarah's friendship with Anne is real, but whether it's love, I really don't know. Childhood friendships were the most sincere, but Sarah's love for Anne was anything but pure. She once said to Abigail, "I like the weak." Sarah's aggressiveness and strength determine her persistence and confidence in power, and her control of Anne is also a victory for herself. , to satisfy their own interests and vanity.
Abigail is really an amazing character, and Sister Stone is really a soulful interpretation. The story of a former noble lady who suddenly rose after the fall. She is very similar to Sarah. She wisely realized what kind of people a strong woman like Sarah would sympathize with, what kind of "love" the queen wanted, and how to attract horses Colonel Si and other aristocratic young men who read countless women. She successfully disguised herself as an innocent and pitiful little white rabbit, winning the favor of Sarah and the queen. The ruthless gambling in her bones contributed to Abigail's success, and she was as smooth as Abigail. Her trauma has created herself who is now seeking superiority by any means possible.
True love is sometimes like your mother, nagging but for your own good, while the mistress only pleases you. Sarah believes that love has boundaries and restrains the Queen's bad living habits, but the Queen's tragic experience determines that she has a deformed concept of love. An immature child does not know how to restrain, but is extremely hedonistic. Anne's extremely personal "stubbornness" gave Abigail an opportunity. Indulge yourself in a crematorium. At least when the relationship between Sarah and the queen is still good, we can still see a relatively healthy and energetic queen, but after Sarah left, the overindulgent queen was obviously lethargic and haggard.
No one in this film seems to be happy, not Sarah, who failed, or the Queen, or Abigail, who succeeded, or Colonel Mars, who married Abigail. Loneliness and emptiness is an eternal topic of human beings. Life is ridiculous. "The Favourite" exhausts too many absurdities, but like a besieged city, the people inside are struggling to be unhappy, and people outside may be able to see this clearly. Sarah finally left the UK with her husband, and perhaps that was the moment when she saw this and was relieved.
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