W.E.

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Just finished watching this on Netflix. The only reason I finished it - well, two reasons. It was pretty to look at, and Andrea Riseborough is a really good actress with a fascinating face who deserves better than this movie. I'm going to seek out her other stuff. But this movie, yuck. It's about Wallis Simpson and Edward, Duke of Windsor [played by James D'Arcy, who I've seen before but can't remember in what - ETA: Master and Commander! God, and other stuff. I like him. He doesn't deserve this movie either] and their trials, and it's got the same dumb side trick that dragged Julie and Julia down - a sort of parallel story about a woman in a crappy marriage who's serious fangirl-level obsessed with the royal romance. There was revisionism, particularly when it came to their political sympathies. The film screamed hysterically WE'RE NOT NAZI SYMPATHIZERS SRSLY!!1! so much it made me blink and finally, after the fourth or so assertion, roll my eyes and laugh. There was other stuff, but the movie was too boring to really go into. It was sucky. But pretty to look at.