All eras are decadent

Rating: 4/10 (3 March 2019)

Apart from Rachel who is playing OK and the queen who is acceptable, the rest are average at best. The costumes and the interiors were beautiful, as it is the case with all Hollywood movies, but they got lazy when thinking about dialogues (not at all in the spirit, nor form of the time), about the plot, about the depth of the characters, about the very little importance of men, in a time when women really did not matter and about the protocol at court. I would not call it a historic movie as the characters are thinking, speaking and behaving very modernly. This is at most a drama about power, manipulation, decadence and homosexuality, with people dressed in 18th century costumes . As with all films I saw in more than a decade, the 18th century is portrayed as a decadent time, so it can fit all eccentric exaggerations, the ideologically oriented director wants to: gays, aggressive language, immorality, imaginary dance styles, pornographic sexuality, duck races and so on. Out time is decadent and by comparison those days were not at all. Very disappointed as a historian, to never see a historic inspired movie that was actually interesting, since the Perfume (2006). Nobody researches the mentalities and behaviors of those times, cause if they were really brought to life, they would cause protests from the politically correctness oriented minds of today.