I finally watched this movie and I loved it. I thought it was an unusual in how it portrayed its characters. I usually don’t respond well to satire or anything there comes close, or to characters who are unpleasant for the sheer sake of unpleasantness. The Favourite could have easily overdone things and portray its characters as caricatures/satire, but it didn’t. They were deeply messy people, but very human because of it. How they felt, how they acted, the things they said: it all rang true and felt so very real. There was no sense of mockery regarding the characters, they were shown as they were, and with a certain degree of empathy because of their intrinsic humanity.
I do want to watch it again, partly because of Rachel Weisz's costumes, partly because of the production design, partly to appreciate the acting properly. Rachel Weisz's role was the least flashy, but she turned out to be the most attuned to herself and her wants out of the main characters. For all that she was a politician, she loved Anne and seemed to genuinely care for her husband, too, whereas Anne and Abigail tended to delude themselves about themselves a bit more.
I adored how inconsequential the men were to the story. Sure, they were unavoidable in the bigger context/the broader world, but they very emotional presence in the movie. It was as if Anne, Sarah and Abigail had carved a world of their own and men simply didn’t belong there.
(I did get a bit of a headache while watching it, possibly because it was so intense)
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Date: 2019-02-07 04:14 am (UTC)I do want to watch it again, partly because of Rachel Weisz's costumes, partly because of the production design, partly to appreciate the acting properly. Rachel Weisz's role was the least flashy, but she turned out to be the most attuned to herself and her wants out of the main characters. For all that she was a politician, she loved Anne and seemed to genuinely care for her husband, too, whereas Anne and Abigail tended to delude themselves about themselves a bit more.
I adored how inconsequential the men were to the story. Sure, they were unavoidable in the bigger context/the broader world, but they very emotional presence in the movie. It was as if Anne, Sarah and Abigail had carved a world of their own and men simply didn’t belong there.
(I did get a bit of a headache while watching it, possibly because it was so intense)