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Posted on 07/04/2024 2:23:20 PM PDT by Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]
The year is 1788, and King George III (Nigel Hawthorne) has entered the 28th year of his reign. Ever since King George III lost the American colonies in the revolution of 1776, his mental health started to decline.
This affected his sanity/ memory, behavior, demeanor, and even affected him physiologically (thus turning his urine blue). As his decline becomes all the more obvious, despite his wife, Queen Charlotte (Helen Mirren) making excuses for him, his mental acuity and stability becomes a very serious matter in Parliament and to his family. This is where things get really interesting, and the drama relating to it all becomes ever the more intriguing.
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Good film.As good as Hawthorne was in it he was even better in Yes,Minister/Yes,Prime Minister.
Haven’t seen the movie but thoroughly enjoyed reading this post and the parallels to our current political kerfluffle. To paraphrase a scripture from Ecclesiastical reference, there’s nothing new under the globally warmed/cooled sun. So much for Kam La La’s esoteric pibble about ‘what can be, has been unchained from the past’. Truly history repeats itself with slight alterations and modifications.
I considered that one of the best movies I’ve ever seen- phenomenal acting and absolutely riveting.
The evidence seems to be that someone was poisoning him with Arsenic.
That's what I recall reading anyways.
And I saw the movie years ago and I thought it was good.
One of my favorites!
It’s on TubiTV. May have to check it out.
I never heard that it was arsenic. I thought they had determined the medical cause for his bouts of insanity—I don’t remember what it is called but it is something that can be treated with medicine nowadays.
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