Well I've always been interested in the 18th-19th Century England. Like, EVERYTHING. I think I'm mostly interested in the way they dress, but also the etiquette and such. But never in my days have I been appalled by what women of their day had to go through, that is of course until I've watched "The Duchess"
Ok, for those whom will never muster up the interest to actually watch this movie.. I'll just go ahead and type a short summary.
(Warning: SPOILERS!!!)
Short Summary of the movie :D
The Duchess:
 | Keira Knightley | ... | Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire |
 | Ralph Fiennes | ... | Duke of Devonshire |
 | Charlotte Rampling | ... | Lady Spencer |
 | Dominic Cooper | ... | Charles Grey |
| Hayley Atwell | ... | Bess Foster |
 | Simon McBurney | ... | Charles Fox |
 | Aidan McArdle | ... | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
Well there's this 16 year old girl named Georgiana Spencer, (Yes, 16) who has a pimp for a mother. Yeah, that's right. She arranged a marrige with this guy, and he's the Duke of Derbyshire. (Which is a pretty big deal) Everyone is happy to see a new Duchess, yaddy-yaddy-ya, couple gets home, they go to his room. He snips off her dress and orders her to get to bed, and then he gets all down and dirty with her. (Like, with no passion or anything. Like, it was her FIRST time and she HAD to do it with some 40-year old man. EW. It was like watching RAPE. And believe me, you wouldn't wanna watch someone being RAPED. Especially Keira Knightly. She has no boobs. And dude. Ew) So anyway, fast forward to her actually getting pregnant. She starts crying out with pain during a party and she like, gets out of the room. Her husband didn't do sh*t. He even made a toast with everyone to welcome his "Heir", But dude, FYI? You go through LABOR before you get a child; Georgiana cried with PAIN. (Omg. Emo)
So the story doesn't end here. For an heir, the child has to be a boy. Guess what she got? Yes. She got a GIRL! So he's like pissed and stuff right? Once she gave birth to her child, all he did was look at the privates and once he noticed "Hey, where's the ding-dong?" he stormed out and played with his greyhounds. (He does that a lot, no sexual innuendo intended. I mean, this guy loves his dogs more than his wife) Well then Georgiana gets pregs again and gives birth to a girl, oh and did I forget to mention she also adopted the child the Duke made with a servant?
So she goes to Bath, (Not a that sort of "bath" you are thinking about. It's like this place in London where they, duh, bathe and get "healthier") She supposedly stayed there to get "healthy" again to bear sons, until her eye catches the Duke flirting with this other woman named Elizabeth. They had really good chemistry and instantly become friends, and Elizabeth persuaded her husband to allow her to live amongst them. Oh, and did I mention Elizabeth's husband bore her 3 sons? He also banished her from ever seeing them again and enjoys life with his mistress. Poor Elizabeth.
Well anyway, all goes well... Until Georgiana passes by her husband's room one day, only to hear Elizabeth's moans of pleasure. (Man, "moans of pleasure"!?! srsly, it was SICK) and how the hell would you feel if you heard your ONLY BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD doing it with your HUSBAND. (Not making parinig, but omg. That's just the foulest foul you could ever foul) it tore her world apart. So like, she's pissed right? She stayed in her room the whole night just sitting down; When her husband finally came to her room, she was all like: "Of all the effing women out there, why did it have to be HER?!? Why can't she be MINE!?!" (D'aaww)
So she like, asks her to husband to banish Elizabeth. But he's like, "No way she's hot" So like, Elizabeth one day goes into Georgiana's room and said her piece: "I did this for my children, I would do ANYTHING for my children, you must understand" and then Georgiana was like: "There are limits too you know, goddamn" So after that talk, Georgiana walks up to her window only to see 3 young boys (Sons of Elizabeth. Remember how she was banished from seeing them? And now they're there! Whoa!) and Elizabeth running towards them to give them a loving embrace.
Well she had mixed feelings, like "Wow, she wasn't bitching. It was TRUE! But still dude, you slept with my hubbie. That's still foul." But that wasn't the only thing bothering her. Her old old friend, Charles Grey, (Whom she loves) makes an appearance and decided to tell her "Ok I'm in love with you" And she's like "Dammit I married the wrong dude" and they kiss and stuff but they only decided to go that far. (Well, partly also because they were in the woods lol) So like, the Duke finds out and then screams at her. And she's like: "Since you have Beth, (Elizabeth) it's alright, right?" And he's like: "I'm the man of the house and it's an insult to me so stop seeing that asshole" and she's like: "That's unfair you son of a b!(*)@!" And she runs away and he runs after and he like forces her into bed and forces something else on to her. (If you catch my drift.)
After that horrible night, she goes to a party, gets drunk, her giant wig catches fire and she falls... All with having to end up knowing that you're pregnant. (I still chuckle when I remember her wig catching fire. The Duke was all like, "Would you please extinguish madame's hair" they poured punch all over it and he like, left her alone on the floor. WHAT A TOTAL ASSHOE) so anway, she ends up bearing him a son... She goes to Bath again and does it with her real love, Charles Grey (With the help of Elizabeth) and goes back to her home only to find out her husband found out. So he was like, "If you don't stop messing around with that dude, then i'ma totally keep your children away from you and make his life friggin miserable" and she was like "Aw hell no" and he was like "Fuck yeah" and so he left. She thought about it, but ended up going back anyway. "I can't leave my darlings!!"
So she goes back, and like he goes "I'm pleased with your decision" and she's like "It's called imprisonment in my own house, you mofo" So all goes well, though she can never ever be truly happy. And then suddenly Charles Grey comes to her house and demands (Very noisily) to see Georgiana. She complies and goes to him, and he start pleading her to come and live with him a happily ever after. But she's like "Dude listen to yourself, you want me to LEAVE MY KIDS. That's not cool" So she left him and then when she goes back to her dinner, (Yes, her husband and Elizabeth were having dinner at the time, they heard the whole thing) the duke was like "This pigeon is slightly stale, what do you think G?" (He calls her G. Lol how gangsta) He totally ignored how much pain she had to go through to tell Charles Grey that, but it totally backfired when she was all like: "Charles Grey fertilized me" (Basically, she's pregs)
And so he banishes her to the country, Elizabeth insisted she go with her, (So they kissed and made up) and she bears Charles Grey's daughter, whom she was forced to give up to Charles' family. (And she cried long and hard for that)
So like, in the end.. Her husband softens up, she accepts her fate, Charles Grey gets engaged and calls his and Georgiana's child his niece, Elizabeth continued to live with them blah blah blah.
THE END
Ok so I didn't sum it up properly but that was all I can dish out right now. I won't persuade you to watch it, but I'm telling you.. What a movie. Wow.
*wheeze*
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