Jan 13 2009
THE DUTCHESS
THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS
I finally got around to seeing Kira Knightly’s turn in The Dutchess. While the plot has its strong points, I found the movie very sad. The commercial made it quite clear that the film was about a young woman unhappy in her marriage that looks elsewhere for satisfaction. However, what they failed to capture was the price she ends up paying.
Not only is she forced to give up the man she loves for the sake of her children with the Duke (and for the sake of said lover) she must also give away the child that resulted from the affair and spend the rest of her life in a loveless marriage while her husband has a live in girlfriend.
Apparently The Duchess is based on a book that was written from an actual Duchess’s letters and writing. This fact makes the entire film all the more depressing.
