"Favorite" recommendation index: ★★★☆☆
1. Summary
"The Beloved" is the latest work of Lance Moss directed by a Greek genius, whose works have always been known for their absurdity and weirdness. As the saying goes, there are three women in one drama. The old partners of Lansmoss, Coleman, Weitz, and Oscar actress Stone Sister, performed a wonderful large-scale English costume battle drama. In the 91st Oscar that just ended, although the previous "Favorite" led by 10 nominations and "Rome" became a big hit, the three leading female actors were nominated for the heroine and the heroine, but in the end only Cole After Man was sealed, it was slightly embarrassing to mention 1 in 10.
2. Film background
Britain has a magnificent millennium dynasty. There are also a large number of British directors and actors who have a great influence on the current film and television industry. Therefore, there are many classic film and television works to tell British historical stories, such as the more famous "The King's Speech" in recent years. The Darkest Hour and Dunkirk’s Oscar trilogy, the drama “The Crown” and another English palace drama “Another Wave” performed by Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. Lin's Girl.
Because the kings of the British royal family are all inherited, although the dynasty changes, the royal family's surname will change, but since the Norman dynasty opened by William I, the kings of all generations have been inherited by blood. This is not like Chinese history. As long as they win the fight, ordinary people with foreign surnames can be emperors. But because of the need for succession, the British royal family often faces the problem of no one to succeed. Therefore, the succession to the throne can sometimes be very chaotic.
The story also starts with Queen Anne’s grandfather. Her grandfather is Charles I who was guillotined in the famous history books (the dignified king was publicly executed too miserably). After that, Britain almost didn’t change the dynasty. Fortunately, after Queen Anne’s uncle Charles The second king was restored, and this saved the British royal family. Charles II was called the "Happy King" by the people. Although Charles II and his mistress had 14 illegitimate children, he did not have a child with the Princess of the Palace, so after the death of Charles II, the throne was passed on to Queen Anne’s father, James II. this.
But her father, James II, had a bad fate, and was overthrown by a glorious revolution without bloodshed in the history books. Queen Anne also has a brother and sister. Her sister is the only gay queen in British history (there are other gay kings, and I have to feel that the culture of corruption has a long history). Her sister deeply loves the daughter of a royal administrator. However, another young lady is a straight daughter. Even if you are a royal family, you can't break it. So her sister married her brother (Miao Miao Miao?) and joined hands to inherit the throne and rule the country. Because the elder sister is gay, naturally she and her elder brother are dead again, so the throne stumbled to Queen Anne.
As it turns out in the movie "The Beloved", Queen Anne was conscientious in creating people, but lost these 17 children due to miscarriages and premature deaths. Queen Anne, who has repeatedly experienced the pain of losing her children, raised 17 in the movie. Rabbits, and gave them names and birthdays to commemorate their 17 children. After the death of Queen Anne, the throne was passed on to her grandfather's sister's home, which is now Queen Elizabeth II's home. That's something to say.
In history, Queen Anne and her husband are still very affectionate, and they are not homosexual. This should be a change in the contradiction of the story. Although Queen Anne is a mediocre, incompetent, uninspired, and manipulated king in the play, in history, during the reign of Queen Anne, the real merger of England and Scotland was realized, and the Kingdom of Great Britain was established, and the British Empire was established. The foundation of a glorious era.
3. Film story
After talking about the history of the Stuart family, I will come back to say a few words about the movie itself.
At the beginning, it was mentioned that the works directed by Lance Moss have always been known for their absurdity and weirdness. Although Lance Moss has converged a lot in this film, there are still a lot of slow motions, such as fisheye lenses, Bach and Vivaldi's. The classical soundtrack, the absurd character performance and the richness of the storyline all show a strong personal touch.
The film also has three hunting scenes meticulously designed by the director, mixed with some metaphors as signs of plot development.
When Sarah just led Abigail to take her to hunt for the first time as a personal maid, Abigail's confused eyes had no target, and naturally he couldn't shoot the bird. After Sarah taught Abigail "Everything has a price", Abigail's eyes became firmer when she called "Throw", indicating that she already had a goal at this time, and she had figured out what the price would be. . Sure enough, the second shot was hit.
In the next scene, Abigail showed what her goal was: She began to seduce Colonel Masham, who was once a fate, and used her marriage with aristocrats to restore her aristocratic status, but for the first time she seduce Masham's face on his back afterwards told us that Abigail was not very willing.
But after seducing Masham, Abigail unintentionally discovered the secret between the queen and Sara, and hinted at Sara during the second hunt. At this time, Abigail just wanted to use this as a handle. Sara got some more benefits, but Sara fired an empty gun at her, making Abigail moved to fight Sara.
At this time Sarah was busy with government affairs, and the two of them had a emotional crisis, which gave Abigail a good opportunity to take advantage of it. When Abigail used rhetoric and companionship to win the favor of the queen, Sarah felt the crisis in time. , And warned Abigail during the third hunting, but at this time Abigail’s gun had been aimed at Sara, splashing the blood on Sara’s face with a bird, declaring that the two officially started war. Behind it, Sara’s face was destroyed and the foreshadowing was laid.
Then Abigail fully fired, colluding with Harry, the leader of the Tory party, and speeding up the process of seducing Colonel Massham, while seducing the queen, and finally climbed onto the queen's bed. It’s worth mentioning here that the large-scale breast-exposed scenes of Sister Stone’s performance were originally not in the script. Sister Stone’s performance was requested by herself when she performed. She deliberately exposed her breasts to face the door and slumbered in this way. Sarah's greatest excitement and blow.
But Sara and the queen’s childhood sweethearts were not so vulnerable. Faced with the two picking up and he was about to fall out of favor and was driven out of the palace, Abigail took out the ultimate weapon-poisoning, and in the time Sarah disappeared. , Used all the previous resources, formally formed an alliance with Harry, and married into the noble family, becoming a noble lady. On the wedding night, when she used her hand to solve the problem for Colonel Masham, Sister Stone stared at the wall with big eyes and looked at the wall in confusion. Fighting in this life-and-death war has been enchanted.
At the end of the film, Sarah lost power and love, and her husband was expelled from the country; Abigail survived in the palace with great power but can only indulge in the flowers and wine every day, kneeling at the feet of the Queen; only Queen Anne owns Eternal power, but besides power, she has nothing, she can only be imprisoned by this deep palace forever. At the end, the faces of Abigail and the queen overlap with a group of rabbits, which seems to imply that everyone in the story is a rabbit. When they are petted and fed, they will also be held in their hands and played with, in this duck race. In the absurd world of smashing naked men with blood oranges, who is the true darling?
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