Another movie of the year, the topic of the year, is finally here!
From the very beginning, it was announced that Xiao K will play the role of Concubine Diana. From posters, stills to trailers, this film can attract countless attention with a little trouble. It’s also a proper annual topic video!
In addition to making people curious about the choice of actors who do not play cards according to common sense, the main reason is of course the legendary life of Diana, a household name. I believe that audiences who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, even if they don’t know about it deliberately, can report the names of Charles, Camilla, William, and Harry. The once overwhelming literature, gossip tabloids, media headlines, and fashion magazines have made the She became an iconized symbol.
The same is true of "Spencer," whose title is taken from Diana's original surname. Rather than spend two hours telling a well-known story, it's better to circumvent this subtly and zoom in on Princess Diana herself. The story takes place in the early 1990s, at a time when the relationship between the princess and Prince Charles had broken down. She left London with the royal family to celebrate Christmas at the country manor, which is very close to the ancestral home where Diana grew up, and the memories of the past make her already poor mental state more and more ups and downs.
The time span of the entire story is only three days, and the plot is very simple or almost non-existent.
The director seems to want to draw out Diana's entire mental state and real situation through "Christmas Journey". So, the whole movie is a first-person perspective that takes us immersively into Diana's life. This way of speaking is easy to say and difficult to say. Once it is done, it can arouse a strong spiritual resonance in the audience from an unconventional perspective. That's the good thing about Spencer.
At the beginning of the film, the picture stops at a pheasant under a wheel.
Afterwards, the director kept throwing out metaphors such as untamed horses, hunted pheasants, scarecrows, labelled costumes, etc., as if he was afraid that we would be dizzy, directly framing the theme of the entire movie. A binary conclusion of Diana VS royalty was settled.
And how illogical this conclusion is. Let's look at the ending first. It makes the story want to sublimate, and can only give a straightforward "runaway" (actually a vacation). It seemed that as long as he escaped from the royal family, everything would be fine. But in fact, after the divorce, Diana could not bear the pursuit of the paparazzi media, and finally died in a car accident.
The film infinitely magnifies Diana's mental predicament, but the opposite royal family has only arranged a new major, who has become a symbol of "discipline".
Behind the scenes, the Queen, Prince Charles, Camilla, etc. are all flashing, blurred functional characters.
This causes the opposition to be very unbalanced. We only know that Diana is suffering, but we cannot feel what she is suffering other than red tape, let alone the meaning of her suffering.
That's why "Spencer" feels so floaty, even a little moan.
If the film wants to point the finger at the royal feudal system, then it is obviously not enough to limit the interpretation space to Diana alone.
In this sense, each of them is not a victim and cannot be reduced to Diana's emotional problems alone.
All of this makes Diana's behavior in "Spencer" appear somewhat inconsistent and logically incoherent.
If the film were to define Diana as a rebel, we would only see out of control, not action.
But in any case, the picture of "Spencer" is still too beautiful to say, after all, Diana's fashion status has been unshakable for decades. The costume design for this film is Jacqueline Duran, who participated in "Pride and Prejudice" and "Atonement".
Therefore, in addition to the popularity of the Oscar for best actress, "Spencer" should obviously be the seed player for the best costume design.
In the low-contrast, grainy, macaron-hued scenes of sculpted scenes, the sideburns are dizzyingly beautiful.
Therefore, whether you want to have a purely aesthetic feast, or friends who are curious about Xiao K's acting skills, you can pay attention to this film. After all, whether you like her or not, this is one of the most talked-about videos this year!