W.E. or Wallace and Edward or Woefully Excruciating, What Ever, Without
Evidence, Worse than Empty, Withering Exacerbation or Wasteful and Erroneous is a film by Madonna that desperately seeks
parallels between a modern day love story and that of Wallis Simpson and King
Edward VIII. It’s rubbish, like really rubbish.
In 1998 a lonely wife called Wally (seriously, Wally) (Abbie
Cornish) is obsessing over the life of Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) the
woman behind the sensation of the century who met, fell in love with and
married King Edward VIII of England. Simpson was not only a colonial commoner
but was also twice divorced and it was inconceivable that a woman of her
standing could marry a Royal let alone the man that would become King. This film
tracks Wallis and Edwards’s love affair and the controversy it created while
drawing comparisons to a modern day tale of love, suffering and redemption. And
did I mention it’s rubbish?
