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elizabeth: the golden age would be a terrible film if one is to compare it with elizabeth. i don't want to. compare. yeah, maybe i will, but i will have to remind you that i like the golden age, despite what almost every critic out there is saying. michiko kakutani once derided (derided!!) toni morrison's paradise. toni morrison: winner of the nobel prize, author of beloved - possibly the best book of the century (possibly, possibly). paradise was inferior, but loved toni still. why am i writing about books?

i liked the golden age because i will always like every cate blanchett film. an error in personality, i guess. what can i do, i like her. i am myself. elizabeth was terrifying in its violence, seriously did not expect that much violence in a movie about a queen (am i sexist? tell me). the golden age is visually compelling. and it had its moments too. samantha morton did an amazing job (the accent! the accent!) and her beheading scene was quite marvelous.

i believe people when they say one shouldn't rate every film as if they were made by tarkovsky. not every film is la règle du jeu. so in this case, a shekhar kapur film is not always a shekhar kapur film. not that kapur is an auteur or anything, but then he made elizabeth. don't judge me, writing at 1 am, need sleep.