The Queen review
Aug. 4th, 2007 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearBeing almost pathalogically disinterested in politics, the monarchy and the British masses, The Queen was never on my list of films to go and see in the cinema. I accidentally caught a few minutes by walking into the wrong screen while trying to see something else and it did grasp my attention, and it was also recommended to me by a few people, so I stuck it on the bottom of my rental list.
It took me a while to get into it - for some reason, seeing the royal family and Tony Blair represented on screen was really odd, and they didn't feel like real people at all to begin with, probably because I used to seeing them caricatured by political comedians. It's a well put together film, though, and it kept my interest all the way through, even though I wasn't entirely sure what it was trying to say. It was intriguing to see the week after Diana's death portrayed from such a different point of view, and I thought Helen Mirren did an excellent job of showing the complexities of the Queen's character.
It took me a while to get into it - for some reason, seeing the royal family and Tony Blair represented on screen was really odd, and they didn't feel like real people at all to begin with, probably because I used to seeing them caricatured by political comedians. It's a well put together film, though, and it kept my interest all the way through, even though I wasn't entirely sure what it was trying to say. It was intriguing to see the week after Diana's death portrayed from such a different point of view, and I thought Helen Mirren did an excellent job of showing the complexities of the Queen's character.
