well…. it was tedious, for starters. It’s supposed to be a comedy, and I guess it’s a comedy if people in period dress screaming CUNT = comedy. More than anything, I found it pretty misogynist. I know the point of the movie is that everyone is grotesque and shallow, but I still found the main characters failed to move beyond tired stereotypes of hysterical, bitchy, cat-fighting women using sex to gain power. A woman screenwriter/director/producer, anyone would have done a much better job handling the story.
The original script was written by a woman and 2 of the 4 producers are women.
The Favourite took two women vying for different political agendas while Queen Anne strove to find her own way between them and reduced them to two women cat-fighting, scheming, and seducing over a meaningless title and privilege.
Which is why male directors/screenwriters/producers should be banned from making movies about women. And we should be making more movies about women that are actually written/directed/produced by women.
