I honestly don't understand the overwhelming criticism that this film is receiving. The film is by no means perfect.
This is a failed attempt to depict an extraordinary women. Diana's beauty & grace was discredited by pitiful mimicry.
As it was the case with Hitchcock earlier this year, my main issue with this move was its title. 'Diana' says nothing to me.
I went to see the film 'Diana' this afternoon and can honestly say I thoroughly enjoyed it. The film took me on a very convincing journey into what it must have been like for Diana as she struggled with coming to terms with her own inner conflicts (eg the feeling that she was destined always to be an 'outsider' to whatever family she aspired to belong to) while striving to rebuild a life for herself after separating from Prince Charles and to find the love she so desperately yearned for.
Going into this movie, I expected a touching look into the life of Princess Diana, of the things that shaped her from her early school years, through her courtship and marriage to Prince Charles, their divorce and its aftermath, all the way up to that fateful night in Paris on August 31st 1997. Instead, I got a shallow and unengaging love story set during the last two years of Princess Diana's life.
Entering the cinema auditorium with a pre-conceived pessimistic judgment on the film yet determined to watch it anyways, I can only say that I am glad that I had not allowed for media and critic opinion to dissuade me from watching "Diana." The film does not portray Diana in a bad way at all.
Diana, not making a peep upon its release nor since, is one of those movies that simply exists where neither its content nor the way it was put together, where the techniques used to convey a well-known story, brought about no great insight, revelation or even valid emotional impact that only served to re-enforce the fact there was no reason for it to exist. It seems no matter how much director Oliver Hirschbiegel thought he might bring an interesting point of view to this film his attempts end up being completely ineffective in the fact that a majority of the people interested in the figure of Diana, Princess of Whales likely knew everything this movie would be bringing to the table (or had already read it in Kate Snell's book on which the screenplay was based) and thus found no reason to watch famous people play dress-up and re-hash the events of their beloved Diana while no doubt dramatizing it as much as possible.
This film took me by surprise due to all the negativity surrounding it. It actually turned out to be a decent film that I enjoyed.
Diana beautiful, elegant and very, very sexy more than in real life... the history : she easily recovers the divorce, falling in love with Pakistani heart surgeon Dr.
