"Favorite" won 9 nominations in this Oscar, and finally starring Olivia Coleman won the best actress and won the Golden Man.
For this movie, many people have disputes.
But if you simply summarized this movie as Gong Dou, it would be too small to watch this movie.
The film has gorgeous details and exquisite setting. The three actresses can move freely, and they all contributed dazzling acting skills. The wide-angle lens and fisheye lens, tens of thousands of candles, and the minimalist and complicated soundtrack are something that makes people feel It cannot be ignored, which is different from the weird beauty of the ancient court dramas in the past.
This weird beauty is indescribable. It is both strong, beautiful and peculiar. Later, I learned about the other works of the Greek director. The original style has always been this way.
A queen, two patrons, these three women determine the course of a war and the fate of two countries
The story takes place a few years after Queen Anne, the last king of the Stuart dynasty, took the throne in the 18th century.
Within two years of her accession to the throne, Queen Anne experienced the pain of losing her husband, and Britain also joined the War of Succession to the Spanish Throne and started fighting with France (in order to fight for colonial and maritime control rights, and do not want France to benefit).
She and her husband George are in a good relationship, but in their many years of marriage, they have been experiencing the pain of bereavement. Queen Anne has experienced 17 pregnancies, miscarriages, premature deaths, and deaths of illness, and none of the children survived eleven. . This is unimaginable and unbearable pain for any woman. If her mind is not strong, she will be crazy. Under the torment of losing children and postpartum depression again and again, her body was tormented by gout, and she was often so painful that she could not walk and had to sit in a wheelchair. Mental state often falls into two extremes, sometimes depressed, and sometimes even want to commit suicide, sometimes violent and fickle, with a temper that makes people inaccessible.
Pain and sorrow made her eat cakes and desserts, and her fragile stomach couldn't bear it. After eating, she vomited, making her whole person puffy, swollen, and weak. Not only must I endure the torment of gout every day, but also the yearning and grief for the child.
In order to relieve the miss of her children, she raised seventeen rabbits in the bedroom, representing the seventeen children she had lost. Every time a child is left, it is as if a part of her is lost with it. She can’t see the child. When she sees a teenager playing music in the courtyard, she will be irritated to be uncontrollable and go crazy, yelling, and when she sees a baby, she will go crazy and hold her tightly in her arms. cry. Because some of her children lost their breath after birth.
She has lost her child and husband, but she is again the queen of Great Britain, with the burden of another country on her back.
Fortunately, there is Sarah Churchill next to her. She is Queen Anne's confidant who played together when she was young, and the only bestie who can resolve the Queen's worries, and she is also the female officer and consultant next to her. Take care of her life and help her with political affairs. Sarah is courageous and persevering, with a tough handle on political affairs, with ease. She loves to wear trousers, she acts well with alcohol, marksmanship and riding skills. She has three children, all of whom have grown up, and she still looks elegant, young and energetic. And her husband is a famous British star Marlborough, who has won a big victory on the front line.
Sarah is perfect for the queen. Her children are adults, her husband serves the country, and her personal health is envious. The queen's life, politics, and even the victory and defeat of the entire country are closely related to Sarah.
Therefore, the queen cannot do without Sarah. In the first half of the film, Sarah Jane has a lot of beauty in the palace. She exercises great power. The queen obeys her words. She can rule the ministers, so everyone knows that the queen listens to her. And only she dared to control the queen, she would be annoyed that the queen's makeup was not put on well, and she looked ugly as a badger. The queen will be forbidden to eat unhealthy snacks. When the queen is hesitant, she tells the queen that you must do this for the country. When the queen was depressed and wanted to commit suicide, she said to her, if you jump from here, the lawn will protect you. Then, taking advantage of the situation, she violently pulled the queen down from the window.
Of course, Sarah would pinch Queen Anne's neck directly to the wall when she was jealous. A fierce man.
When the queen is in a bad mood, he will push her briskly through the corridor, making Queen Anne laugh.
She loves the queen. She believes that the queen and the country are two in one. She loves this country. At the same time, she can raise military expenses for her husband on the front line and share the worries for the country.
At the beginning of the film, Britain fought a big victory, whether to continue the fight or negotiate a peace. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Godolphin and the Speaker of the House of Commons Harry were in a dispute. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Godolphin and the army commander-in-chief Marlborough both wanted to take advantage of the victory, but Harry was firmly opposed and supported the peace talks. Harry worried that the war had been fought for a few years and that it would cost too much. If this continues, it will cause public grievances. Sarah believes that peace can only be achieved by letting the French suffer more losses. It is far from the time to negotiate a peace. As for the issue of military expenditure, the only way to increase taxes is to increase taxes.
Like a flock of sheep
The Speaker of the House of Commons, Harry, was anxious, but he couldn't see the queen. Since Sarah hid the queen tightly, he had no idea what was going on in the palace, what did the queen think? He must start thinking of other ways.
He fixed his gaze on Sarah's new maid, Algaby, a young and beautiful maid with restless desire in her eyes.
Algaby is Sarah's cousin, her family is in decline, and her father sold her to the nasty streets in order to pay off her debts. She is extremely eager to return to the aristocratic class again. She has read books, received aristocratic education, and can speak French and Latin. Being a maid with clothes and a house is definitely not her end. Harry pointed out to her: The road to the powerful is full of mud, danger, and unknown. You should have a different friend. Pampering is like an uncertain wind direction, floating every moment.
Algaby followed her cousin, observing everything silently. She knew she had a chance. She saw that under Sarah's toughness, the fragile queen was often unhappy. What she needed more was gentleness and understanding. Maybe Sarah was right, but under her strict life constraints, the queen was not happy.
Algaby quietly told Harry that the queen hesitated about raising taxes.
At the parliament the next day, the queen was going to announce the continuation of the war, and the cost was resolved by increasing taxes. But before the Queen's announcement, Harry cleverly revealed the serious consequences of the tax increase, and most people in the parliament supported the negotiation of peace without tax increase.
Suddenly, there was a quarrel in the parliament, and the original speech was not used at all. This situation could not end. Queen Anne rolled her eyes, hesitated for a few seconds, and immediately rolled down the steps, pretending to be fainted.
Afterwards, the queen summoned Harry alone, and Harry took the opportunity to say a lot of things that Sarah would not tell the queen.
The queen agreed not to increase taxes, but the front line must be in place. Once France has a new move, action can be taken immediately.
At the same time, in the harem, the queen began to favor Algaby and neglect Sarah.
Sarah and Algaby began to compete for the queen's favor in the harem.
The pinnacle of power is personal loneliness and nothingness, but she has always remained sober
Sarah is proud and strong. Because she is so strong, she can’t do all those things that can be flattering and flattering, but Abigail is different. She knows that Sarah has her own palace and territory if she loses. If she loses, she will likely return to the stinking quagmire and become a lowly prostitute.
So she must win, even if the means are shameless and inferior.
Whoever has self-esteem and limits, whoever cares, loses.
As for the queen, in the harem, she sometimes neglects Abigail and sometimes she neglects Sarah.
During the period of neglecting Sarah, she enjoyed Abigail's tender and considerate care, regained her confidence, and began to handle political affairs in person.
She missed Sarah, but if Sarah left just to torture her and make her succumb in sadness and regret, she would kill her immediately.
In the film, when Sarah takes care of the queen, the queen’s room is extraordinarily tidy. The snacks are healthy nuts and simple biscuits. When Abigail controls the harem, the queen’s room is full of flamboyant and gaudy flowers and the table There are sweet and greasy snacks and cakes, as well as hot chocolate. The queen will do whatever she wants, and everything will follow the queen.
Even the room is a bit messy.
Sarah was poisoned, fell off while riding, and was dragged to the ground by the horse, completely disfigured.
When Sarah was rescued from the brothel, the chancellor asked her if she had been abused. She smiled and said, "They saved me, and you came at the right time. If I want, they are planning to introduce me to a big money job." .
Speaking fast and venomous, like the first time she saw Abigail covered in mud, when flies were flying around her, Sarah asked, is this your friend?
The disfigured Sarah returned to the palace. Abigail had already taken everything. She married the first baron Masham and transformed herself into a noble lady. Above the court, Harry also met with the queen daily and began to gain the upper hand.
Sarah was defeated in this battle. She handed over the keys to the palace and left the palace.
Soon after, Britain and France negotiated a peace and signed a treaty. Her husband returned from the battlefield, there was no war, and it was of little use.
In the harem, Abigail falsely accused Sarah of taking the Queen's money as his own and passed it to her husband, and burned Sarah's letter to the Queen. Completely cut off the remaining emotions and longings between the Queen and Sarah.
Sarah waited hard for the queen's reply, but what was waiting was the guard who expelled her.
On the surface, Abigail got everything, and at this time the little white rabbit also began to remove his disguise. Before that, she took care of the Queen’s seventeen rabbits and listened to the Queen’s stories about these rabbits. But now, while the queen was asleep, she began to step on these rabbits with her feet.
The queen in her sleep heard the screams of the rabbit, and when she woke up, she ordered Abigail to rub her legs with authority.
Abigail's face slowly changed from triumphant to loss and numbness, and finally, together with the rabbit's face, blurred, faded, and disappeared.
She is just a pet.
On the surface, it is the fierce duchess and the scheming maid in the queen's palace, but it is actually a power contest between the Whig Party and the Tory Party in the Congress, and it is also the choice of national interests in the Spanish throne battle. A battle for favor in the inner palace affects the outcome of a war, the fate of the people of the two countries, and even changes in the entire world structure.
You say Queen Anne is fat, weak and confused? But such Queen Anne, in the chaotic harem and the quarrelsome parliament, it is rare for the two factions to judge the situation and make the right choice every time.
In the film, after Marlborough commanded the army on the front line to defeat the French army, she listened to Harry's opinion, stop the war, get the benefits, and accept it as soon as possible.
Historically, the United Kingdom decisively called a halt under the advantage of the situation. Britain and France negotiated and signed the Rastatt Peace Treaty, and the United Kingdom obtained the Strait of Gibraltar and a large area of North American colonies.
At that time, Russia had already begun to make an effort to rise. A France that maintained its strength was the best barrier to contain Russia, and a split and evenly matched Europe was the most favorable choice for Britain at that time.
The Strait of Gibraltar and the colonies in North America laid the foundation for Britain to become a maritime hegemon in the future.
During the reign of Queen Anne, Scotland and England formally merged and became the Kingdom of Great Britain. During her reign, she also promulgated a bill-Queen Anne's Copyright Act, which was the world's first decree to protect intellectual property rights in modern history, confirming the protection of original intellectual property rights. Since then, various countries have benefited a lot from the legislation on intellectual property rights.
With a painful body and a depressed and frantic mental state, but being able to make the right choice in national affairs, Queen Anne has always remained sober. Perhaps, we can think that it is precisely because of her sickness and her pain that she cleverly used the people and resources around her to solve her pain and disturb others' sight in disputes, while she was always awake, judging the situation and doing things. One by one, quite rational judgments were made.
During her rule of the United Kingdom, although every parliament quarrelled into a ball, but at a critical moment and every decision, the three forces of the queen, parliament, and army merged into a powerful force, laying the foundation for the British Empire to become the world's hegemon in the future. A strong foundation.
Such a queen, can you still say that she is weak, confused, and unintentional?
Olivia Coleman interprets Queen Anne’s psychological changes step by step until she finally erupts. She also fully expresses her pain, fragility, suspiciousness, pretending to be stupid, and decision at critical moments. The golden man deserves his name, and the performances of Emma Stone and Rachel Vichy in the film are also memorable.
Some people say that this drama Gongdou is inferior to Yanxi Raiders. Rather, it is precisely because of the "Bill of Rights" after the Glorious Revolution and the new type of parliamentary system that necessary restrictions on the king's power have ensured the normal operation of the state apparatus. Do whatever you want like the Qing emperor.
"The Beloved" is indeed a rare and excellent film, even more so when combined with history.
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