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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 23, 2019 14:33:55 GMT
i hated it. Full of stupid and unpleasant scenes, and the historical naccuracies irritated me - Abigal Hill for instance was only thirteen when Sarah Churchill took her into her household, she had been with Sarah for years before she began to serve Queen Anne. SArah is portrayed as the victim of Abigail's machinations, when in fact it was her own foul temper and domineering ways that eventually put the Queen off her. QUeen Anne's husband George, to whom she was devoted, is completely eliminated, although the man Abigail married was one of his servants. the Queen herself is portrayed as a bumbling fool although she was not - it goes without saying that her fervent devotion to the Angliacan church doesn't get a mention. probably the nastiest of the gratuitously unpleasant scenes is iwhen Abigail squashes the rabbit. ALtogether I loathed the whole thing. THere is nothing even faintly amusing about it, no comedy black or otherwise. Within the film's satirical and macabre context, though, I would not call that scene "gratuitous." It symbolizes Abigail's emergent lust for power and authority—even over the queen—and the final scene offers a fairly chilling retort to that ambition. The poster appears to be only looking at this scene from a superficial and simpleminded aspect of a person being cruel to an animal, without underscoring the context of character's motivation for doing what she did. It is a comment born out of distorted emotion. |
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