Fictional movies, period dramas included, are not documentaries and should not be judged based on their strict adherence to historical facts, which sometimes are still controversial even for scholars. Therefore this film is refreshing as it is re-telling history from the point of view of the defeated and is de-mystifying or humanizing Elizabeth I, unlike that one with Cate Blanchett or other movies praising the first Queen of England.
The acting is absolutely outstanding, Saoirse Ronan is a great actress, and Margot Robbie is at par here. The atmosphere, the sets and the filming are great, yet maybe the editing seems a bit rushed in places (or is it because of some rushed scenes in the script?).
Despite all this, unfortunately the viewer can't entirely buy in the end its fresh fictional perspective because of a few not so discrete bits of anachronism or blunt propaganda, which are totally gratuitous and would have been so easily avoided (many feminist hints, multiracial aristocracy in 16th century Europe, and a statement of acceptance of a drag queen).
These 21st century hints are annoying here not because people of different agenda, ethnicity or sexual orientation were annoying as they were, which would be absurd, but because these anachronistic propagandist bits are useless, distracting and disposable aspects in the context of this film.
The acting is absolutely outstanding, Saoirse Ronan is a great actress, and Margot Robbie is at par here. The atmosphere, the sets and the filming are great, yet maybe the editing seems a bit rushed in places (or is it because of some rushed scenes in the script?).
Despite all this, unfortunately the viewer can't entirely buy in the end its fresh fictional perspective because of a few not so discrete bits of anachronism or blunt propaganda, which are totally gratuitous and would have been so easily avoided (many feminist hints, multiracial aristocracy in 16th century Europe, and a statement of acceptance of a drag queen).
These 21st century hints are annoying here not because people of different agenda, ethnicity or sexual orientation were annoying as they were, which would be absurd, but because these anachronistic propagandist bits are useless, distracting and disposable aspects in the context of this film.