Most movies made today carry an underlying political message which is inserted in by the views and beliefs of the movie studio and producers who make the film. Unfortunately this is one such movie. The underlying political view the filmmaker wants you to believe in this movie is that the British upper class and monarchy were just a bunch of uneducated nitwits that knew nothing about India's people, religions, and culture-that couldn't tell the difference between hindus and muslims, didn't know anything about India's foods, traditions, culture etc... The movie also tries to give the message that even though the British considered themselves as the epitome of civilization and as Hindus and muslims less civilized, in actuality the opposite is true. It ridicules British culture and tradition and glorifies islam and Islamic culture, like when in the movie the queens is happily amazed when she sees women that are draped in full burqa and she (Queen Victoria) even says in the movie that she thinks a women covered from head to toe in a black burqa looks "dignified". I highly doubt queen Victoria thought that covering women in a full black burqa and pulling them around like cattle looked "dignified". The filmmaker put that in so that he can push his view on people that burqas are actually good and empowering to women, when in reality this couldn't be farther from the truth. This is just one example found in the movie of political messages the filmmaker is trying to push, but only a dimwit would not notice. To sum it up the movie wants to give you the idea that: islam is beautiful and amazing, Christianity is dull and backwards, third world is actually 1st world, and western culture is stupid, boring, and out of touch with the rest of the world. I wish they would make real movies again like they did up until the late 90's when they rarely added in political messages and instead focused on making a well thought out interesting movie for entertainment purposes and not ideological. This is why I don't go to movie theaters anymore or buy any new movies because they all carry a political message nowadays that they try to insert into people's minds instead of just making a movie for entertainment which is what they are supposed to be to begin with.
Review of Victoria & Abdul
