A huge movie about a relatively small incident

Rating: Null/10 (4 February 2007)

Although the death of Princess Diana is lamentable, and although the people of England were disturbed by the royal reaction to it, there are many more important things going on in the world in need of elucidation by the movie industry! It is true that Helen Mirren's acting was flawless. But all I, as an American, came away with is the absurdity of royalty. All the bowing and scraping shown in the movie points up the fact that humans deliberately subject themselves to being demeaned. In the scene where the Queen comes back to Buckingham Palace and walks down the row of flowers, and then walks past the people standing at the barrier, it was disturbing to see women bowing to her. With the war in Iraq, with 47 million Americans with no health care and all the other problems we face, one would think the movie industry would find a more important topic to tackle.