the queen

ok, so i drove up to lexington to see the queen...finally, with my mom......i'd rather have seen pan's labrynth...but there was no way i could have gotten anybody to go with me to that.....and since she jumped at the chance to see helen mirren......it ended up being a good idea.....and a good film....i truly believed we were all eavesdropping in scotland on her 40,000 acre estate.....and at buckingham....cathartically it was good to wipe a few more tears away for diana......a woman that i never had to live with......this point was so subtley made.....that there were two dianas...the public and the private one....and i cannot blame the poor dear for not handling her spouse's infidelity gracefully...oh yeah... the fellow who played prince phillip turns out to be the same guy who plays farmer in babe......who knew he could be such a cold sonofagun?...ah well.....so good to finally see this film and to see helen mirren's performance..........and to sigh in relief that this woman was neither my mother nor my mother-in-law.....