Friday, January 05, 2024
Le Règne commence mal
LA SAGA
DOWNTON ABBEY A VÉCU ET MOURU
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/la-saga-downton-abbey-a-v%C3%A9cu-et-mouru-a7f068c6905a
DOWNTON
ABBEY HAS REACHED EXTINCTION
It
was a series of great value, deeply historical and sociological, but the last
two films are disappointing. The last but one with the visit of the King was of
a banal formal and pompous cavalcade but with some slight interest in that
quaint English monarchy. But this latest opus is at most a way to pass two
hours without thinking too much. Disappointing. Sad.
No,
really, the small little secret of this aristocratic family that has to lie to
cover up – and keep – their privileges, though they cannot repair their leaky
roof. So, they let a film be produced in the building for a good sum of
interesting money. Note we are not told anything about it, particularly how
much it is.
The
acme of hypocrisy is reached when they discover the Earl of the Abbey is not
the son of his father and hence has no blood right to be the Earl of this Abbey,
and his children have even less right than him. So, lie, lie again, and lie
always, to keep your privileges. This is done the way it could be done in a
pulp novel about the promiscuity of a few teenagers with one girl getting
pregnant and she cannot say who the father is. Luckily, we have DNA nowadays
(NAD in text language).
Éditions
La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024
Irish
Studies, * Film
Studies, * Cinema, * Film, * Cinema
Studies, * Aristocracy, * Romance, * Landlords
and Tenants
