Where do I even begin with this movie? This isn't just Tonypandy, it's historical revisionism. The movie portrays Queen Mary as a diseased and possibly a bit deranged woman willing to fabricate evidence in order to place Elizabeth on trial. Many events are placed out of sequence within the film. For example Mary's false pregnancy was not discovered until after Elizabeth was already imprisoned.
This film was painful. Even looking past all of the blatant changes, it reeks of the greatest flaw in late 1990's and early 2000's cinema; drama swollen with self-importance and "destiny". Certain actions come dangerously close to fourth wall-breaking precience, as if the writer forgot that the characters aren't supposed to know how things will play out. Every scene groans under the weight of how important it is, but the movie feels more like a two hour series of short vignettes than a coherent narrative, with little or no transition between scenes that contrast jarringly with one-another. scenes of loud noise and activity contrasted with almost total silence, cutting so abruptly from one to the next that they feel disjointed.
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