A little while ago I walked down to the small local movie theater in town to see “The Queen” with some friends. It was a brilliant movie to say the least. The whole thing was beautifully shot and the character development was astounding. The actors and actress did a wonderful job and fit their roles very well. Especially Helen Mirren, who played the queen. She won best actress in a drama at the Golden Globes.

The movie is about when Princess Diana and Tony Blair had just become the Prime Minister. It highlighted the conflict between the queen’s opnions of the way her death should be handled and the prime ministers opnion. One of my favorite parts was when the Queen was driving down a hunting road in the middle of the forest and got stuck in a river. She jumped out, checked what was wrong with the Land Rover (she was a mechanic in the war) and called for help. This is the Queen of England we are talking about, alone in the woods.

I highly recomend that you see it.