You go not till I set you up a glass
Where you may see the inmost part of you.
——HAMLET ACT III SCENE IV
The shadow of Princess Diana falls on the screen The shadow of the
queen falls on the canvas
The shadow of the painter falls on the mirror
Director Helen Mirren's shadow falls on Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren's shadow falls on
the curtain Everyone is real, she is Princess Diana.
When I was a child, I read reference news, and I could often see news about Princess Diana. At that time, she was still alive, her marriage was on the verge of collapse, and then she got divorced. In some news, some of her later behaviors were analyzed and analyzed, saying that she was an actress and won many actions. pity. After that, there are more magazines to read, but the reference news of my father will not be read. The death of Princess Diana in 1997 was not very sensational in China. If I didn't watch this movie, I didn't know that the Queen was once considered indifferent by the British people because of the death of Princess Diana. Under pressure, the Queen appeared on the scene, and it can be said that she also became an actress.
A good actor plays a good show, and a good director directs a good show. Director Stephen Frears, who used to work for the Theatre Royal in London, makes films with British rigour, cleverly conceived and unobtrusive. Just like the low-key, calm and rich queen in the play.
Movies are dramas, all the real news in the past has become dramas, actors are acting, dead people have become actors, people have become extras, history has become drama, politics has become drama, the royal family has become a family stage, a comprehensive event. A political and non-political drama that is both realistic and non-realistic, in the lens, in the mirror, showing human nature.
All plays are personal, and all plays are sentient beings.
In the shot, in the picture, when Blair looks into the mirror, the mirrors of different angles and orientations form overlapping and complicated shadows, just like this film, with multiple angles, elements, complex, detailed and delicate.
The palace in the picture is not spectacular, it has a delicate structure and many decorations. In the picture, the queen's territory is wide and uninhabited. The Queen's Royal Palace retains the temperament of the ancient British royal family. It is isolated and arrogant. Outside the fence of Buckingham Palace are ordinary people. Flowers for Princess Di blocked the gate of the iron gate. Royal Palace. The dead Princess Diana was said by Blair to be the people's princess, but the living Queen is the people? Princess Diana was divorced, no longer a daughter-in-law. After her death, she became Blair's princess, a hostage in the power struggle, and a cooperating actor. How many of the flowers that separate the gate between the palace and the marketplace were inspired by Blair's speech?
Public opinion has become the captive of politicians, and the shadows of the living crowd are recorded in the news, reflected on TV, and landed on the curtain, becoming actors in the director's mirror. Princess Diana's funeral was shown on TV, many star actors came to pay the funeral, and then the real crowd, the people, shed tears. Crying, it's too easy, that's not the standard of a good actor.
Among the mourners of Princess Diana were American director Steven Spielberg, few politicians appeared in "The Queen", and Clinton was one, the president of the United States. Blair is the elected prime minister, Clinton is the elected president, and the American polity influences the UK, bringing with it a cultural invasion.
The Queen told Blair: "People like heartfelt speeches these days, but I'm not good at that, never, I like to suppress my emotions, I foolishly think people want a queen like that, not a fuss-free one Type, responsibility first, personal second." It is not so much that the Queen compromises with public opinion, it is better to say that the Queen compromises on American culture, the individualistic America, the emotionally exposed America, it may not be real, but it is all a play , public opinion can be easily directed. Individualism seems to be individual, but it is still blindly obedient. True democracy is still far away. Plato's "Utopia" proposed that it is best for a philosophical king who is not restricted by law to be similar to God and immortal to exercise autocracy. Because the philosopher king has no human weakness, no own interests, and more. No abuse of power, only ideals. Humans have weaknesses, not to mention that people who are close to gods can only be judged by people who are close to gods. Who can know who is close to gods? After all, the realization of the ideal country can only be achieved under the premise that everyone is close to gods. a distant ideal.
The queen is not like a fairy, and the crowd she has to face is not like a fairy. There was only one stag with fourteen pronged horns left in her territory. Under the attack of public opinion, she had to drive alone in her vast territory. The land, crying when carrying people, looking back, but it is the beautiful stag, with proud horns like a glorious crown. Look at each other, like looking at each other in a mirror. The gun rang, and in an instant, the deer disappeared. Turn back and move forward, the deer is on the road ahead, the queen, on the way forward, compromises with everyone.
There is no crown on the queen's head, but an ordinary turban.
The deer king eventually became a specimen, just like the deer head specimens on the walls of the palace. There are paintings on the walls of the palace, portraits of the royal family passed down from generation to generation, and shadows on the canvas.
The queen, to modern culture, only bows her head, and the living kingship has long disappeared. TO BE OR NOT TO BE, have to face.
Blair, with his wife going up the stairs to meet the Queen at the beginning, as the scene reaches a climax, the Queen will go down the stairs to meet the people. Power no longer belongs to the individual. At the end of the play, Blair met the Queen again, no going upstairs, no kneeling, the two sat on an equal footing, left the palace together, and went down the stairs together. Talking about education, in the garden, the sculptures of men and women embrace each other, and their shadows are reflected in the pool.
Can you see Hamlet's shadow?
It's all English, drama, Shakespeare.
The shadow of Ophelia can be seen on Princess Diana, the young Blair is like Oedipus' Hamlet, and there are dramas in the play, such as Shakespeare's "Hamlet". The same play core, different times, the ending looks more beautiful.
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