Review of The Favourite (2018) by Cwong46 — 23 Nov 2018

I thought that this was a wonderful, witty film. The film's accurate depiction of power-hungry people and their tactics was difficult to swallow despite the humor, but it ended up proving to be a wealth of information for me in regards to the nature human treachery.

It was beautiful to see how the film's ending ensued--with Emma Stone's character stuck in the degrading task of rubbing the Queen's legs in knelt position--as it demonstrated to me the futility of pursuing power, and how power could entrance even powerful people into feeling perpetually worthless and weak (like a rabbit) in relation to others.

Disregarding the subject of power, I also admired the film's ending for its inevitability and natural conclusion. The psychological punishment that resulted from an obsession of power was that one in turn would always feel powerless, no matter what transient, self-therapeutic means one could instantiate against this feeling, including cruelty towards others, self-indulgence, or the attainment of higher social status.

Emma Stone did a wonderful job portraying this character, whose troubled background, although tragic and in part responsible for her feelings of worthlessness, was not the primary determinant of her corruption.

This film showed that the personal choices of the protagonist, including treating love as a means to an end rather than an end in itself, changing her allegiance in the name of personal "safety," and involving herself in the framing of both political propositions and people, ruined her grace and integrity.

Overall, this film was insightful in many ways, and I'd love to see this being nominated for the awards it deserves.