Pride is to admit defeat but never give in

Randi 2022-03-05 08:01:07

Maybe my review is off topic, I don't doubt it.

Where does pride come from? Bloodline? status? Or money?
A: The pride of the Queen comes from her mind.

A young queen, facing those old men who are fighting on the battlefield, said that a strong brain is more important than the body, that peace is more important than plunder, and the Renaissance is more important than the expansion of territory... I like her to hold her head high and disdain those who have decayed thoughts, I like her cold-eyed stubbornness to open the heavy door, her uniform, riding and shooting like a real king, and she is more like a literary young woman.

History has entrusted her with the mission of the king, but reality has to impose on her unreachable pain-because of her gender, she can't get the love of her mother; because of religion, she can't be convinced by her subjects; because of the shadow of childhood, she can't have a complete life. family. However, her pride did not allow her to bow her head and yield in the suffering again and again, but persisted more tenaciously to the end, just like the wedding of her maid (although there is no such record in history)—— This isn't the end of the story, it's just the beginning of the next one.

She knows that she can't rule the country (historically, she gave up rule twice), but she doesn't want to turn herself into someone's appendage to complete a political marriage; she also knows that she can't love the person she wants to love, but She doesn't need to force anyone to perfect herself; she knows that her beliefs and pursuits are fundamentally incompatible with this world, so she goes where she wants to go, reads the books she wants to read, and sees the people she wants to meet!

I don't know if other people will think this movie is a tragedy, that the Queen's life is a tragedy. But I am looking forward to this kind of life, proud and wonderful.

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Extended Reading
  • Domenico 2022-04-19 09:03:02

    It turns out that there has been such a queen in history. The female character has a good appearance and is quite in line with the character setting in the movie. Regarding the emotional relationship with the female waiter, it reminds me of fingersmith, but of course it is not as delicate as the bbc. This film is mainly about the legend of the queen Life and experience are attractive, but the handling is very general, that is, the heroine casting is good, but it can be seen

  • Mae 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    The queen's life is too suffocating, no wonder she has to abdicate. There are suspicions of exaggeration about the relationship between the queen and the maid. Even just from the script, it feels like the maid doesn't really love the queen. As for beliefs, this is where the whole film, even the Queen herself, confuses me. It stands to reason that Sweden is a Protestant country, and Roman Catholicism is an old religion. According to history books, Catholicism is more conservative and less conscience than Lutheranism, so why is it enlightened? The queen who abandoned Protestantism and converted to still teach? The reason given in the film is that Lutheranism was deeply rooted in Sweden at the time, and for the Queen it was the old religion and Catholicism was the Protestant. But looking at history, Upper Lutheranism is Protestantism. At the end, the plot of recognizing my cousin as a son to inherit the throne really made me laugh to death, thanks to her for thinking it out

The Girl King quotes

  • Queen Kristina: [eating hunter's stew] By the rusty nails of Christ's cross, this is delicious!

  • Queen Kristina: Et voilà! The humanists are here by the door. the stoics by the windows and the library of the humanist Grotius will arrive soon. Can you imagine? Forty-eight cartloads of books!