On Spencer’s immortal frames and systemical tragedy.

I’m already familiar with stories like these, I’ve been a part of stories like these, I’ve adored stories like these, And I’m disgusted at being a part of stories like these. Pablo Larrain’s ‘Spencer’ is beautifully brutal, An epic, a metaphorical fable. And the reason because this story is different from being the same is its portrayal of the tragedy which comes in the form of a victorious runaway from, Rules and systems.

Just like the people in the palace and the palace itself, The frame is always perfect, It’s always in the center, Which captures how perfect everything is supposed to be, It’s quite horrible to watch the cheery, Merry and jovial Diana, eating the ivory pearls and how she associates herself with the queen who died. Her wish of wearing spencer as a protest to the rules in the palace is in her mind a metaphor so deep that helps her breathe another second in the palace.

Spencer opens with the words, “a fable from a true tragedy.” Fable is often known as the story that uses animals as characters to show the moral truth, And it’s true, All the characters in ‘Spencer’ are monsters more than animals, No one is human here, They are all caught up in the loop that they can’t really come out of. The whole film is stuffed with symbols and metaphors; The opening of the frame shows us how the dead bird always is so near from being crushed, A image so terrible that brings chaos and havoc just thinking about it, Same with the fate of the late princess of Wales.

Jonny Greenwood, Who is the lead guitarist of Radiohead has constructed and composed the music score for ‘Spencer’ and It is haunting and enchanting at the same time, With each dream, all she imagines and all that she can finally manage is shown through that, The big contradiction between these two things, Is the formation of a dazzling horror lullaby, That can both construct and bring sleep, As well as Deconstruct it.

I can feel the surrealism, it’s out in open. Larrain’s directing is aesthetically pleasing, This is not the first attempt at portraying the Diana story, And it’s not the last, It’s Diana’s legacy that is making her more immortal day after day Because her death and life inspired the pop-culture, Art, and cultures to indulge this story into them, To show it to people, And people still want more of it.