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Gong Dou Opera believes that everyone has given a lot of guidance, whether it is the ancestor of the palace fighting "Golden Branch Desire", the "Beauty Scheming" and "Zhen Huan Biography" in its heyday, or the "Strategy of Yanxi Palace" and "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", these famous names, even if you haven't read them, you must have heard and understood them.
Gong Dou Opera represented by the Qing Palace has always been one of the unique landscapes that best represents Chinese film and television. At the same time, Gong Dou Opera must be made into a TV series when it is filmed, and it is almost the industry consensus that 70 or 80 episodes are good-looking. .
However, there is a European director who wants to break this norm. This European court film by Ougs Lansmos, who has directed "Lobster" and "Death of the Sacred Deer", is not only a finalist in the Venice Main Competition, but also an Oscar. 10 nominations on the madness-
"darling"
Queen Anne of the Kingdom of Great Britain has always maintained a close relationship with Duchess Sara Marlborough. The latter is not only her most trusted confidant and advisor, but also her secret lover.
However, with the arrival of Sara’s distant relative, Abigail, the relationship between the two was upset, and the kingdom was also facing a reorganization of power.
Abigail's appearance was extremely embarrassing. As an aristocratic lady, she was given to a short French by her father to pay off her debts. After her father's death, she went to the palace and planned to find a handyman with her cousin, Mrs. Sara.
The noble Sarah naturally looked down on this mud-faced distant relative, and mocked Abigail's whole family at the first meeting, and asked her to play with the children as monsters.
Abigail's destiny soon ushered in a turning point. The queen's gout problem was committed, and the entire palace was helpless, and could only watch the queen wailing in pain.
The kind-hearted Abigail took the risk of being caught to secretly apply herbs to the queen, which relieved the queen a lot of pain, and was appreciated by Sara and became her personal maid.
At the same time, the war between Britain and France was in full swing, and the Whig Party and the Tory Party were arguing over their differences over the war.
The radical Whig Party asked the Queen to strike while the iron was hot, defeat the French army in one fell swoop, and raise tax rates to support military spending.
On the other hand, the moderate Tory Party requested the Queen to stop the war and negotiate peace with the French army based on the complaints of the domestic people.
As the wife of the leader of the Whig Party, Lord Marlborough, Sarah naturally stands on the side of the Whig Party. She often whispers to the Queen, persuading her to follow the advice of the Whig Party, and sometimes even forge the Queen’s password.
Harry, the leader of the Tory Party, of course could not sit still. He called Abigail to try to get information about the Queen and Sara from her. Abigail reported the matter to Sara, but was ridiculed by Sara, thinking that she might just pretend to be loyal and actually please both sides.
In order to win over Abigail, Harry asked the handsome Masaro to implement a "beautiful boy" against her. Abigail, who could not gain trust from Sara, decided to marry Masaro and become a noble again.
The blackened Abigail colluded with Harry and successfully prevented Sarah from increasing the tax rate by revealing information.
Sarah, who is busy handling government affairs, has become more and more presumptuous towards Anne, while Abigail took advantage of the vacancy and succeeded in winning the Queen's favor, and gradually became the Queen's new favorite.
Abigail, whose desires are getting bigger and bigger, is obviously not satisfied, she is planning the final blow to Sara...
Different from the slow pace and depressive atmosphere of most domestic battle dramas, "The Beloved" has an extremely strange style under the direction of Lansmos.
With the combination of the weird soundtrack and the comic performances of the three female protagonists, a court movie that breaks down from depression and even brings a lot of fun is born.
A cross montage at the climax of the film expresses this weird style to the extreme.
Abigail, who went to find Harry, Sarah after poisoning, and Harry who was playing the clown for fun, were quickly spliced together, combined with the music with a strong sense of melody, bringing a weird sense of rhythm, but also With a bit of cruel pleasure to witness the tragedy happen.
Especially the naked clown for the pleasure of the nobles, together with the bloody liquid screen behind him, constitutes a strangely styled picture, even giving people the illusion of watching a thriller.
Lance Moss uses this extreme video style to show the pathological state of infinite expansion of desires, leaving behind a sense of horror of contemplation besides joy, forcing the audience to re-examine the battle for power and desire in the palace.
From Abigail’s perspective, "Favourite" is undoubtedly a great movie. The audience watched this declining aristocratic lady "fight against monsters" all the way to promote, compete for favor, and finally squeezed Sara and became the queen's side. The darling of the tens of thousands of people.
However, the film only concealed the cruelty with joy and pleasure, and it is still a tragedy after removing the comedy shell of "Beloved".
Abigail, who was originally kind and self-loving, fell into the bottomless pit of desire, and was about to become the next Mrs. Sara, living amidst the backlash of the powerful and the fearless day and night.
Sara, who was arrogant and arrogant, was ousted from power by a distant relative she despised, and was even forced to leave the motherland she had fought for all her life.
And the object of the favor-Queen Anne, although she obtained Abigail's obedience and achieved political success, she also lost her true love Sarah.
Whether it is the Chinese court or the Western court, it is a tragedy that is driven by desire to fight endlessly, and is finally backed up by desire.
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