“impotent clown”?
The guy who pushed aside the Pope and crowned himself?
Thats not the movie I saw. Napoleon had complex, sometimes bizarre motivations, and often inexplicable judgment, some of which can be due to his relationship with Josephine, and insufficiently stressed here, his mother.
The movie makes a huge deal of his dumping Josephine, which certainly didnt make her happy. This is made out to be a nasty series of humiliations for her - culminating in the scene of the signing of the annulment, a painful, awkward power play. The entire grey theme of her exile at Malmaison, which Napoleon only rarely deigns to visit, makes a clear point. She’s done, passe.
This leaves Napoleon feeling guilty, as he indeed was, but hey, raisons d’etat.
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