I saw this movie yesterday and I was blown away, I didn't expect it to be that good.

The movie is what Marie Antoinette should've been but never was because of a particular spoiled talentless brat playing fun and games with daddy's money and reputation.

Anyway, it was so amazing.

The movie was beautiful and poetic without being stuck up and highbrow. People were laughing and reacting to the movie in a way I've never seen with a period piece.

And Keira Knightly was amazing, I usually loathe her but my god is she a fine actress and she can totally carry a movie. Any praise she gets she deserves even if she is a total cunt.

One thing I liked about the movie is the sadness amongts so much "privilege".

Someone said on my Amy Winehouse thread something along the lines of "what does she have to be sad about" and I guess the same could be said about the duchess if you see it at the surface.

I've seen movies like Factory Girl and read about lives like Edie Sedgwick and have found myself saying "what are you so sad about when your life is so great" and many people have said that to me too but when I was watching the movie I found myself not being able to say that.

The Duchess had money, beauty, health, status, children, a powerful husband and everything anyone could want but I really can't see anyone NOT being miserable in her position. That man was so cruel to her and she was so trapped that the fact that she had so many blessings and was so fortunate compared to other people hardly made up for it.

And what I loved the most was that she didn't became bitter about it. The last scene SPOILER AHEAD STOP READING NOW, when they say how Bess lived with G's husband for all her life yet she kinda talked to them in a polite, kind manner.

I guess at the end she came not to resignation but to acceptance. "This is my live and this is what I've received and it's ok".

And that was certainly inspiring to me, granted I've never had it as hard as she had but I feel I've had reasons for sadness like severe loneliness for example and I kinda related because I'm not a person that gives up hope or spends his whole day being miserable, I really don't all evidence pointing to the contrary.

I really do love life and maybe that is why I "whine" so much or become so sad because I feel like I'm missing out ON SO MUCH and it's not really my doing, but I can totally see myself still hoping and looking forward to things like the character in the movie did and I was moved by it.

So far it's the best movie I've seen this year.

The movie was pretty good, but it wasn't amazing.

And dude, you're not going to grow up to be a dutchess.

lol best movie of the year

knightley was good. she's considerably less annoying here than in that movie with sienna miller (who is like queen of annoying) and in that atonement movie (wherein she was overshadowed by a preteen).

but that scene when she was giving up her kid, with the music and shit, that was a bit hilarious.

I didn't like the movie that much, it was ok. I hate Keira Knightley, she annoys me, but I liked Ralph Fiennes.

By the way, it's spelled The Duchess. Without the "t".

omg I can't believe you are talking so dismissively about it, I loved it.