"This is a total cheese dream of a film —did she really just eat a pearl? — but also it’s a riveting one as well as a thrillingly entertaining one. Plus it all somehow feels true even if it isn’t. Broken woman, unfeeling family. That seems about right.... It is billed as ‘a fable from a true tragedy,’ whatever that might mean, and Diana’s marriage to Charles is irrevocably on the rocks but the family still imagine she can be brought to heel.... Sandringham, with its endlessly long corridors, is like that hotel in
The Shining, but colder.... At one point she pulls from her neck the pearl necklace Charles had given her — he gave the same one to Camilla — the pearls fall into her soup, and she eats them, with great cracking sounds. Crazy, but we get it.... [T]his film is so clever that you also understand why they loathed her, why she was so annoying...."
Writes Deborah Ross in
"A riveting cheese dream of a film: Spencer reviewed/Kristen Stewart looks nothing like Diana but is somehow Diana. I think it’s called ‘great acting’" (The Spectator).
Ha ha. That made me want to see the movie, but I'm not willing to sit through a movie wearing a mask, so that leaves the question whether and where it's streaming. Too complicated!
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Was this an arranged marriage? Did the married people ever like each other?
Sorry I don't get how this was such a fiasco.
I obviously did not follow any of this. None of this makes any sense.
Are pearls really lower on the hardness scale than enamel?
Wow damn natural cured pearls are 3.5 to 4.5. Didn't know they were so soft. Guess that makes sense.
Still going to wreck your teeth though.
Your theaters are still masking? Geez. I was born in Wisconsin, but I'm awfully glad not to be there now.
That made me want to see the movie, but I'm not willing to sit through a movie wearing a mask
Why would you need to wear a mask? See exception 1.b.i of the Madison County Mask Mandate Order:
"b. Exceptions. Individuals who are otherwise required to wear a face
covering may remove the face covering in the following situations:
i. While eating or drinking."
Just buy a bucket of delicious popcorn or a cool refreshing soft drink. Didn't you train your law students to be able to parse the laws, regulations and opinions of the government bodies that issue these orders?
LOL to your fascist state that requires masks in theaters. Blue states continue to live in fear....and never want this to end.
--- "This is a total cheese dream of a film" [Wisconsin Film Board]
I am more of a fan of Beef Wellington movies.
Diana was a very cute and photogenic person who tried to do good things in her life.
Credit where it's due.
But she was not the sharpest knife.
I think that easily explains her inability to see what she was getting into.
If anything about Charles' relationship with Camilla is true, alarm bells should have been blaring 24/7.
Deborah Ross is my absolute fave movie reviewer. She’s such a way with words.
I’d watch anything she recommends.
It’s not a state mask mandate. I live in a different Wisconsin country and have been to the theater twice in the last month. No mask requirement here.
" Individuals who are otherwise required to wear a face
covering may remove the face covering in the following situations:
i. While eating or drinking.""
I worked in labs with biohazards, and so have lots of people. You do not get to sit in a corner with your mask off to eat and drink. That alone is knock-down evidence that masks are theater.
They want you to wear a mask but they still want you to spend money at restaurants, so they make an exception that completely guts the ostensible purpose of the rule. Just like how Washington and Nevada closed the churches but not the casinos or the pots shops. Nevada did close the casino that allowed a church to have services there though...
'Your theaters are still masking? Geez. I was born in Wisconsin, but I'm awfully glad not to be there now.'
I was in WI for a few days in August. There were masks in public places but you had to look really hard to find them.
Also, I was the slimmest man in the region for my age group, and I could stand to lose a few pounds. And it wasn't even close.
That alone is knock-down evidence that masks are theater.
Exactly, my point. If someone doesn't want to go to a theater because of a fear of the virus, then that's their real reason, not because a mask is uncomfortable.
You people still complaining about masks? It's no wonder that the weak ass bitches complaining about the hardship of wearing masks correlates with the highest per capita consumption of fast junk food, incidences of morbid obesity and inversely proportional to basic intelligence. Do your fucking duty. Volunteer for the citizens militia to combat Covid. Standard requirement is to get a vaccine, get into physical shape, eat clean food, get outdoors, keep your distance and wear an N95 mask when indoors. Rights and Responsibilities go hand in hand.
I lost my interest in royals when what they did was no longer a matter of life or death for them and their countrymen. They are just another form of celebrity since WWII. And I don’t follow the “celebrities”. Generally boring people.
Gabriel:
Great point. I too spent a 30+ year career wearing respirators in the field doing toxic waste remediation. The worst was wearing Level B at a toxaphene dump near Ocala in August. With Covid, however, the use of PPE is different.
For the pandemic, everyone is the potential source of contamination. Masks are primarily for source reduction and secondarily for exposure prevention. Therefore, wearing them part time in restaurants still has a source reduction effect. Also, part time wearing also has a exposure reduction effect.
Google Swiss cheese Covid prevention.
The mask mandate is by the Public Health of Madison and Dane County.
PHMDC, pronounced "fascist".
I worked in labs with biohazards, and so have lots of people. You do not get to sit in a corner with your mask off to eat and drink. That alone is knock-down evidence that masks are theater.
I have some friends, really nice people, that have totally bought into all the mask theater nonsense. They recently travelled to a blue state for a couple of weeks of sight seeing and the husband was bragging about how much better it was there in regards to masks. He rhapsodized about how in restaurants people would wear their masks when not seated at their table. If you are that worried about the Corona why are you travelling as a tourist? Why go to restaurants? Continue to stay at home and minimize contact with everyone else. Whatever you do, don't carry the Red State Cooties to Blue areas.
Lordy, even (blue with a capital B) Miami-Dade and Broward schools have revoked their mask mandates. And funny, we don't see the union teachers anymore on local news demonstrating in front of school administration buildings carrying signs calling DeSantis a murderer and worse for opposing the mandates.
I didn't think I'd see that day for a looooong time.
Masks were theater during the Great Influenza and are theater today 100 years later.
I live in deep blue California. So blue that Swalwell is my Congressman. Even here nobody wears a mask in the theater. Not once seated anyway.
Wear the mask going in, then take it off when the movies starts. Make them throw you out. It is what I would do.
@Howard
I googled it. It just another term for defense in depth. It doesn't address the issue of whether wearing masks actually reduces your chances of getting the virus. It especially doesn't address the issue of whether or not wearing one while going to and from the bathroom in a restaurant but then taking it off while seated at your table with other people who have been interacting with God knows who elsewhere is effective.
Howard said...
You people still complaining about masks? It's no wonder that the weak ass bitches complaining about the hardship of wearing masks correlates with the highest per capita consumption of fast junk food, incidences of morbid obesity and inversely proportional to basic intelligence. Do your fucking duty. Volunteer for the citizens militia to combat Covid. Standard requirement is to get a vaccine, get into physical shape, eat clean food, get outdoors, keep your distance and wear an N95 mask when indoors. Rights and Responsibilities go hand in hand.
Nazi's don't understand why people differentiate between government mandated theater and non government mandated theater.
Maybe you should go back to rape counseling.
" Do your fucking duty. Volunteer for the citizens militia...."
Ribbentrop couldn't have said it better himself.
Howard is always a good model for explanations of how the world got Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. And Pol Pot, for that matter.
Pretty much only the staff in our small town NE WI movie theater wear masks. Just as I was about to say I have no interest in this movie - I am so over the Diana story, which has chugged along for 40 years now - my husband indicated he wants to see it. He’s a film fanatic (thank God for Criterion Channel), and he thinks it sounds interesting, from a film style perspective. As with any film outside the mainstream, it will involve a drive down to Green Bay (at a minimum.) Which we wouldn’t do if the theaters required masks.
I look forward to the movie version of Meghan and Harry's marriage.
Marx's quip comes to mind, "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
I didn't mind K-Stew 1.0, the tomboy. K-Stew 2.0, the homewrecker, was harder to take. K-Stew 3.0, the lesbian diva is too much for me.
I cannot wait to see this movie. But then again, I just finished 3 JFK documentaries and something about the real lesbian housewives of Tampa.
She had Borderline Personality Disorder. Most sufferers are from poor and traumatised backgrounds, so it expresses differently - and they can't get away with these behaviors without getting called out and/or abandoned. But when you are rich the rules are different.
If she were alive in the age of social media she could have been much more destructive.
"Did she really clear the room of staff by saying she wished to masturbate
Real-life people don't usually say things like that.
It sounds more like Joe Montana's SNL skit, or maybe an episode of Friends.
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