What about Xiao K’s portrayal of the most controversial princess in history and the ＂Diana＂ with mixed reputation？
Among all the European and American actresses, Kristen Stewart’s acting skills have always been questioned. Since the launch of Spencer, it has received very polarized comments. One argument is that Diana’s image is too thin, and some people even point out that Stewart’s acting skills are artificial. Is this version really a flop?
There are spoilers in this article.
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The royal family is like a heavily guarded prison. No matter who you are, you must be weighed and recorded before entering the door. This rule is completely materialized, but no one disputes it.
Among all members of the royal family, Diana is especially monitored. She has a pair of eyes always watching her every move, so just stepping here exhausted all Diana’s energy. Before the dinner, she had been driving around outside and even lost her way.
"Tradition" is something that the royal family requires all people to abide by, because their honor and noble status originally come from castrating their true selves, and they are all motivated. If Diana doesn’t do well enough, the rest of the royal family will not allow her to occupy the position of princess.
If Diana sacrificed her freedom for love, it would be reasonable, otherwise she would not choose royal marriage. But now that love no longer exists, she has become a tool to help Prince Charles maintain his face. Everyone knows that Charles has cheated, but it is regarded as the routine operation of the royal family.
For Diana, the dinner was hypocritical. Charles gave her a pearl necklace symbolizing the harmony between husband and wife, but turned his head and gave her a mistress. Diana, who had difficulty eating at the dinner party, broke the pearl necklace, and the pearls were scattered in the pea soup. She began to swallow these huge pearls and ran away in pain. These were Diana’s hallucinations, but the pain was very real.
The relationship between food and Diana is like the relationship between the world and her. Although the royal dinner will choose the best ingredients and hire the best chefs to satisfy the noble tastes of these gentlemen, Diana just can’t swallow it. On the contrary, she will sneak into the kitchen to steal food and then spit it out.
During this period, a book deeply influenced her, which recorded the story of anne boleyn, the second queen of King Henry VIII of England. Diana kept seeing her ghost in the royal family, which seemed to be an inspiration and a gloomy omen.
She is eager to escape and return to the time before marriage, where the happy "Spencer" lives instead of Princess Diana now. However, the pastoral life of childhood has been blocked by barbed wire, leaving only strange moonlight and mist in her life.
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William and Harry are Diana’s saviors and the only objects Diana trusts. Although she often loses control, she is a competent mother, but they are still young and don’t understand her mother’s struggle.
Diana brought true maternal love and freedom to her two sons, but she was betrayed alone. Her rival in love could appear on the same occasion with her and get her husband’s attention. This woman is more mature than Diana and more like the hostess of this place.
When Diana questioned Charles, she only got a cold reply. Indeed, in the rules of the royal game, whoever abides by the rules will be sheltered. He is already the sheltered person, but he accused Diana of not fulfilling her duties as a princess.
Diana’s every move was captured by the media, and the lens of the media was like a microscope to see everything about her. The media understood Diana’s preciousness and exploited Diana to gain benefits. Her panic in front of the camera explained everything. These flashlights and lenses were bloodthirsty.
However, the pressure from the royal family was more personal. In order to cut her off from the media, they rudely sewed the curtains in Diana’s bedroom, which made Diana’s mental state extremely fragile, which was simply worse.
She can’t distinguish between illusion and reality more and more, and can’t resist the illusion. Diana can’t even put on a dress and go out of the bedroom to join everyone. She wakes herself up from drowning by self-mutilation.
Just like the Queen’s attitude towards Diana, it seems that she can’t empathize with Diana’s experience, and she doesn’t mention the betrayal of Charles. Everyone has shackles and tasks, but she won’t treat Diana as a human being.
They can lie and live at the same time, but Diana can’t. She has decided to leave the royal family. After all, the scene of Diana lying on the toilet in an evening dress is enough to make a satire on the royal family.
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Screenwriter Steven Knight set the tone for Spencer, that is, the audience will see more fiction than facts. Fiction began from the "lost" of the opening film. Princess Diana grew up here and was a neighbor of the royal family, but she got lost in this place, which shows that she has lost part of herself in order to live up to people’s expectations for many years.
In order to immerse the audience in Diana’s collapsed mental state, the director invited the composer Jonny Greenwood, from high-pitched strings to bells … He created a long and uneasy soundtrack for the film. In addition, photographer Claire Mathon keenly captured Diana’s claustrophobia under the gaze of the royal family, which is not only a house, but also a place where "ghost stories" take place.
However, there are also some scenes in the film that are very warm. For example, when Diana lights candles and talks with the children at night, the audience can feel the warmth. Once Diana finds meaning in her beloved two sons, this frozen castle will become extremely warm.
As for the topic of "acting", there is no doubt that Stewart has given the best performance in her career, because she plays Princess Diana, who is out of touch with reality, a highly subjective version, instead of Diana we usually see from the media.
If the TV series Crown is centered on the whole royal family, then Spencer is Diana’s one-man show, but it is unfair that the film obviously focuses more on Diana’s mental state than Charles’ affair, which will make some viewers feel that Diana in the film overreacts.
However, Spencer does capture the atmosphere of the early 1990s, and Diana’s real psychological state is also the crystallization of the film’s efforts, because Diana’s pain is a mixture of reality and imagination, and it is an "uncomfortable" existence. If the purpose of the film is to make the audience feel an inexplicable anxiety, then this version is acceptable.
The picture in this article comes from the Internet.
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