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Many people say that the elk in the movie refers to Diana.
I don't think Elk is Diana. But the Queen herself.
I watched the director's subtitled version.
The director said that the Queen spends 2 months in every year...that's the Royal Forest.
Because the queen became queen because of an accident, if not, she said she would like to stay in the country and be a village girl. And the Queen is keen to come to the Royal Forest, because here, she can ignore "political affairs" and be purely a village girl, close to nature and animals.
So later, when she was driving a Land Rover across the river, she would cry.
This is impossible in London, in the palace, in public.
And hunting elk is a royal tradition, so the elk also represents a royal tradition.
The elk is like the queen herself, hoping that nature will be peaceful, but because of the royal family and because of human society, it cannot control its own destiny. It either died honorably at the hands of a royal hunter, or grievously killed by a wealthy London financier.
I think for the Queen, the death of the elk was a bigger blow to herself than the death of Diana.
It can also be seen from the movie that Diana was not her real self from the time of her death. Instead, the mass media have added a lot of idealistic and tragic Diana (there are actually many such effects, such as Mao, Guevara, Putin, etc.). And this kind of fake Diana is not liked by everyone, such as the royal family, such as the queen.
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