In July 1981, at the age of 20, Diana and Prince Charles held a dreamy wedding of the century, which was witnessed by 750 million viewers worldwide through live television broadcasts.
In the eyes of people at that time, this was a fairytale love and marriage. But before leaving for the palace, it is said that the sheriff who escorted Diana said to her: "This is the last night of your life to be free, don't rush to go, enjoy it again." ”
In a word. The tragedy of Diana's life began from the moment she stepped into the royal family.
This year's Oscar "seed" contestant, "Spencer", starring "Twilight Girl" Kristen Stewart Jr., focuses on the moment when the marriage has passed a decade. At that time, Diana's relationship with Charles had fallen to a freezing point, rumors of the latter's affair, the two would divorce, and the British royal family would hold a routine Christmas celebration, and the harmonious holiday atmosphere could not be destroyed.
Spencer tells the story of what happened in just three days, and historically, the year after Christmas, Diana and Charles announced their separation and officially divorced in 1996.
This film uses a beautiful lens to reveal Diana's princess life, like a gorgeous shackle, how to crush her breathlessly and escape.
Prince Charles cheated not long after he got married, and even gave Diana a pearl necklace that was exactly the same as her lover's. At church services, I also go back and forth with my lover.
And the British royal family's strict to perverted rules are more like a chain wrapped around Diana's body: the time of eating is fixed, the seat is fixed, even the time of opening gifts is fixed, and it is as small as the dress and match of each meal and each event, which cannot be changed, and there is no freedom to dress at all. Even weight changes must be in line with the "royal tradition" - at least 1.36 kilograms must be gained after Christmas dinner to show respect for the holiday. Diana only did not pull the curtains during a change of clothes, and the curtains were sewn up by the maid.
Because of her loveless marriage and repressed life, Diana suffered from binge eating. She often sneaks into the back kitchen late at night to steal food, and then masochistically induces vomiting, as if in this way, releasing real emotions. And the pearl necklace that brought her shame, she had imagined to rip it off, chew it up, and swallow it. Diana always wants to break through the barbed wire fence and return to her family's abandoned house to find a place to go.
Spencer shows us a demure, humble, painful, uneasy, and even neurotic Diana, arguably a rare image of a concubine on screen.
Another difference in the film is that the other members of the royal family rarely speak out in the film, Prince Charles only coldly asks Diana in the second half of the film when he tears up the pearl necklace "Secret", which is no longer a secret, and the queen only says a word to Diana, warning her that we are nothing more than symbols like currency.
In the whole film, the biggest conflict with Diana is only those who act as "tool people", which also reflects the alienation of royal marriage - even the conflict between husband and wife cannot be directly collided together.
For example, to remind Diana, the housekeeper deliberately placed a biography of Anne Boleyn at the head of her bed, anne was the second wife of Henry VIII, who was executed for adultery, and in fact, Henry VIII himself fell in love with someone else — coincidentally, Anne Boleyn was a distant relative of Diana's family. History is always cyclical, just changing forms.
It's also spencer's magic stroke, allowing Diana to have a regular dialogue with the ghost of Anne Boleyn, and two of the most legendary women in British royal history have an intertextuality through time.
Played by Little K as Diana, it was controversial. Although the external image gap is large, it has to be admitted that the unruly and crazy in the bones of the two is similar - yes, Diana, who is ostensibly a well-behaved woman, is a girl with a strong personality. Even if you enter the palace, this point is only temporarily suppressed, and it has not disappeared.
You know, Diana was the first member of the royal family in history to touch the body of a civilian without gloves; when other royals always kept their distance from the people, she would crouch at the same height as the children and accept the children's flowers; in the past, the royal family had children in the palace, but Diana insisted on choosing to be in the civilian hospital...
So when Little K runs around the manor in a yellow suit, she also re-releases Diana's wild nature that cannot be domesticated.
At the end of the film, Diana finally escaped from the royal family temporarily with her two sons, breathing freely, galloping freely, eating junk food... She reverted to her true self, Spencer, the same surname she had before she married into the royal family.
A repressed woman, breaking free from a loveless marriage and resisting the discipline of power, this is not only Diana's story, but also the story of contemporary women.
Although Spencer describes Diana's most painful experience, it also gives her the best ending. For example, the scene where her costume artist boldly shows love to Diana, which at first glance feels a little absurd, but it also makes Diana finally realize the possibility of being loved. It ends the whole story at the fullest moment of love.
However, even if we are cathartic and released, we already know diana's full fate, and we know that the miracle did not happen, and Diana's freedom was only a moment.
In 1997, 2.5 billion people watched Diana's funeral on television. In her eulogy, the most painful sentence is: "The most ironic point about Diana is that a girl named after the ancient hunting goddess is, in the end, one of the most hunted people in the modern world." ”