Queen Charlotte: A Bridgeton Story Review: More than just an entertaining work
VOH – Queen Charlotte: A Bridgeton Story is a love story with a bit of historical elements, some humor mixed with a message about human moral values.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgeton Story is a film about the young love story of the eponymous Queen (India Amarteifio) and King George III (Corey Mylchreest). If in Bridgeton, we witnessed a cold relationship between the two leading men in England, then in this prequel film, the audience will have a clearer view of the love story of the young couple.
However, the beauty of the movie is not only the emotional and romantic elements. Cleverly integrated into the story, screenwriter Shonda Rhimes brought typical moral values about motherhood and friendship and evoked concerns and thoughts about joy and true happiness through the story. portrays the dark side of human life.
A beautiful love is when there is understanding and sympathy
King George III is the head of England, has a noble responsibility and mission – and also creates extremely heavy pressure when any decision, any unusual change in his health also seriously affects the nation’s destiny.
Queen Charlotte comes from a noble German lineage. Her parents died early, and she was spoiled and raised by her older brother from a young age. A strong personality, a freedom-loving soul like her cannot accept the fact that she was “sold” by her own brother in exchange for a solid seat of the family.
At the age of 17, she was caught up in a hasty marriage with only about 6 hours to prepare from the moment she received the news. She also couldn’t accept that she had to marry a stranger she had never met.
Charlotte could hardly stand the servants around her hiding and refusing to answer questions regarding her future husband. That leads to Charlotte’s climactic decision: to run away.
A personality and independent Charlotte decides to climb the wall to escape this arranged marriage. But this process was interrupted by the appearance of “farmer George”. The kindness, courtesy, and intelligence of the King of England served as a response to Charlotte’s questions, and at the same time made her fall in love and agree to walk down the aisle.
It was thought that the married life of the powerful couple would be rosy, but events occurred that swept away those myths. King George III suffered from mental illness, he could not control his mind and lost cognitive abilities in waves that he could not control.
Although he admired and was fascinated with Charlotte’s knowledge and beauty, George III decided to push her away from the wedding night to protect her. This kindness was unintentionally misunderstood by Charlotte. Both of them unintentionally built a wall in their “desirable” relationship.
One side chases (Charlotte), the other side runs away (George), their relationship gradually changes in a bad direction and becomes somewhat mechanical when performing husband and wife duties without putting any emotion into it. King George III and Queen Charlotte built a married life of lust, resentment, and hurt.
Their love story is even interfered with by a series of calculations by supporting characters, either for or against the couple, including Charlotte’s best friend – Lady Danbury, George’s calculating mother. – Princess Augusta of Wales and a pair of loyal butlers – Brimsley and Reynolds.
These things happen mainly because of three words: not understanding. Both do not share their problems with each other, which leads to the other person not being able to understand the situation their partner is in. This cycle takes place and drags their relationship into a dark abyss.
The movie does not give viewers a happy ending between two powerful people, at least the way viewers want after the plot twist near the end of the movie. But the scene changes many years later, when Charlotte and George are old, and despite what they have both been through, the couple still sees each other as pure and beautiful souls as if they had just met for the first time. The image of the queen helping George III’s mind return to reality by lying under the bed shows this more clearly than ever.
