The Lion in Winter
Who is to say what is normal or dysfunctional in today's society, a society in which almost nothing can seem to surprise? However, having watched The Lion in Winter, directed by Anthony Harvey, there exists no question in my mind as to the dysfunctional nature of the royal family portrayed so bizarrely in the movie. The whole plot in itself screams Jerry Springer: "King imprisons the Queen who slept with their bisexual son and King now wants his mistress to marry his other son while he remains to sleep with her." For the very reason of the Springer-like society we today live in, some people might by today's standards consider some of the scenarios in the movie to be just a little off the wall. However, when put into the time context of the 12th century, in no way can the characters' actions be described except for downright dysfunctional. By today's liberalistic views, little ceases to amaze us. Even if something seems a little bizarre, no one speaks of it on fear of offending someone or labeling oneself as chauvinistic and narrow-minded. Take this next statistic for instance. We live in a nation where as of 1996,
In closing, it is not so much the scenes of the movie that establish the royal family as so dysfunctional, but more so time context to which they occurred. Many of the same events take place in today's society, yet go unnoticed or looked over by some aspects because society has grown so accustomed to it all. Obviously, dysfunctional families have been around far longer than we may have previously assumed. The change over time has rather been the amount of such families, and the degree to which their existence seems to shock us. mistakenly left this side of the royal family out of all the stories. Richard's actions make President Clinton look pretty clean, when you consider he at least had "sexual relations" with a woman who was not his mother. When put in the context of time, the characters' actions seem wildly bizarre and it is hard to dispute that this royal family established the concept of dysfunctional families. Now looking at the movie, The Lion in Winter, throw aside for a second all we bear witness to each day in this year of 2000 A.D. Take yourself back to the 12th century, and the characters' actions now seem wildly bizarre, esp
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