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The Queen review
Being 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.