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Stephen Frears’ “The Queen” is a singularly persuasive attack on the English monarchy. It contrasts the attitudes of Queen Elizabeth II—an old woman out of tune with the feelings of England the week after her former daughter-in-law Princess Diana’s death—with the spin-tacular performance of her recently elected Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen...
...contrast to the Queen, The Prime Minister lives a simple life in a house with his children and wife, Cherie. He is among the people, in the city, better able to understand their needs...
...reminiscence about Diana’s importance, which contrasts strangely with the mourning masses. The effect of this is to put the viewer even further into the Queen’s confusion at the scale of the grief. But the viewer realizes how much of a mistake the queen is making much earlier than she does, increasing the strength of the case against...
...range of emotions that are eerily familiar. That's why we delight in seeing chimps wearing tuxedos, playing the drums or riding bicycles. It's why a potbellied gorilla scratching itself in the zoo reminds us of Uncle Ralph or Cousin Vinnie--and why, in a more unsettled reaction, Queen Victoria, on seeing an orangutan named Jenny at the London Zoo in 1842, declared the beast "frightful and painfully and disagreeably human...