Film: A right royal failure
"What is fatally lacking in The Queen is any analytical rigour: like the royal family, the film-makers retreat at the first sign of difficulty. It is especially cowardly to portray the public unquestioningly as a benevolent mass, rather than as a baying mob advertising its grief with helium balloons that proclaim "We'll Miss You". The director who diagnosed England's failings so pointedly in Bloody Kids (1980) and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) has neglected to grasp the principal irony of the post-Diana outcry: that it was the same public that revered the Queen's fidelity to the past and which berated her for her failure to adapt to the present. "
*edit* Another confirmation, a review for the BBC.
Eh, forget the movie. Pics of the real thing:
Queen Elizabeth II (C) reviews three Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment at the Balmoral Showgrounds in Belfast, in Northern Ireland. The queen has reviewed British soldiers stationed in Northern Ireland for the last time as the army winds down its presence in the once-troubled province.(AFP/Peter Muhly)
(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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