Film · MGM · 1933
Pass it on
Queen Christina
55Watch it awake.
She abdicates, the country wanted an heir, and the film takes her side.
The review
Garbo abdicates, and I nearly let that stand as the whole story. A queen who dresses as she likes will not marry for the country. She falls in love with a Spanish envoy. Adult enough. A house can watch it. A prestige hit, not King Kong.
The country wanted a marriage and an heir. She wanted a life. The film is on her side. I said the country's claim out loud, because the picture will not regret leaving it. Nobody here has to side with her. Someone does have to notice they don't get the heir. I was tired. The romance is easy to keep, and the people are easy to drop.
Journal
Keep Queen Christina in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.
The glance
Stewardship is the thin one.
What is left for the people who come after — a place, a craft, a name?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Oppenheimer
65 instead of 55
Oppenheimer is still a drama film, and it scores 65 instead of 55. What you gain is stewardship: The entire third act is posterity walking into the room.
The eight
- 5Industry
Ruling is the work, and she leaves it rather than make the marriage.
- 6Household
The country wanted a marriage and an heir; she wanted a life.
- 5Piety
She will not marry against herself just to satisfy the country.
- 8Courage
She abdicates, and the crown is the thing she actually gives up.
- 5Republic
A country is owed an heir, and she and the film both refuse.
- 5Temperance
She takes the envoy and refuses the marriage the country ordered.
- 7Truth
She wants a life, and the film does not pretend she wants the throne.
- 3Stewardship
The people are left without the marriage and without the heir.
Where to watch
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