No problem. Of the two, I think I also prefer The Favourite, but I truly believe there was an element of misogyny which plagued the consensus response to Coppola’s movie upon release. I’m not sure I completely agree with Ebert’s 4 star assessment, but I do find an element of truth in what he wrote here: “Every criticism I have read of this film would alter its fragile magic and reduce its romantic and tragic poignancy to the level of an instructional film.”

I mean, I feel you’re short shifting Marie Antoinette a little bit here. It wasn’t just the soundtrack that was anachronistic, everything about the presentation is meant to encourage audiences to view the subject through a modern lens, from the lead performances all the way down to the production design. Recall that this is the movie that has a pair of hi-top Converse All-Stars included in Antoinette’s closet. If you don’t feel like it was as successful as The Favourite, that’s totally valid, but it wasn’t due to limiting the scope of its central idea to the soundtrack.

Good eye sniper! I was wracking my brain trying to think if there was some obscure predecessor to Blood Wake that I wasn’t aware of or something.

Any particular reason? I don’t mean to pester, and if you’re not comfortable sharing, I’ll press no further. However, like I said, it’s an idle fascination of mine, and this is the first time I’ve come across someone with firsthand experience ‘in the wild’, as it were.

I know that theres a legacy of oppression that is frequently hushed behind the monarchy’s foreign investment solicitations, and the majority of the population remains poor and isolated, both of which I can imagine being problematic.

You’ve visited? What was your impression overall? Bhutan is an idle fascination of mine. The willing abdication of the previous monarch, top-down initiated democracy, the Gross National Happiness concept, etc. it’s all incredibly interesting to me.

is it time?

You know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I beat you with until you follow my ruttin’ commands!