Posted on 09/30/2023 6:13:51 PM PDT by Twotone
In Shakespeare's Richard III, the doomed young Prince, about to be sent to the Tower by Richard, his guardian, says that "Methinks the truth should live from age to age / As 'twere retailed to all posterity / Even to the general all-ending day." To which Richard, already planning his next move, mutters "So wise so young, they say, do never live long."
No one denies the value of truth, not even Shakespeare's villainous Richard, and even as we struggle to find it in a world flooded with information and opinion. I can't tell you where you'll find the truth in the news media despite being a journalist, but as a movie critic I do know that you'll find a lot of things in the movies – wit, spectacle, beauty, horror – but that factual, objective truth isn't among them.
At the start of director Stephen Frears' The Lost King (2022), we're told that the film – a drama based on amateur historian Philippa Langley's successful search for the grave of Richard III – is not just "Based on a true story" but that it's "Her story." This implication – that one person can own the truth – is a very contemporary idea, and one that undermines what is an otherwise entertaining picture.
When we first meet Langley, she's at work in Edinburgh at some dispiriting office that demands regular meetings, during which she learns that she's been passed over for a promotion in favour of several younger colleagues, including a pretty blonde whose brief time on the job has nonetheless caught the attention of her oafish boss, who tells Philippa (while apparently reading from a human resources manual) that "you are at the right level for you."
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Very interesting!
video: Finding The Missing Skeleton of King Richard III - Documentary
2 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWerD-siYt4
Queen’s Lecture 2016 by Dr Turi King | King Richard III - the resolution of a 500-year-old mystery
6 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEU9_fbXW7I
The missing — undoubtedly murdered — two young princes in the tower could have become rival and more legitimate claimants to the crown had they lived. This seems to have covertly been a reason why Richard III got such a bad reputation in British history. No one could quite offer direct public proof that he had them killed, but elite circles knew well enough that was what happened to them.
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I’ve rented this movie twice. It’s great family fare. No cuss words, interesting story. There’s a lesson in there about persistence and standing one’s ground for what is right.
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