Movie

 We watched a movie last night. It was the 2006 movie about Marie Antoinette starring Kirsten Dunst.  

Spoiler alerts aren’t necessary- we all knew she was be-headed. The ending doesn’t show this, however, it only shows her and her husband in a carriage escaping France. 

I know I learned about Marie Antoinette and her husband in school, and their role in the American revolution, but of course I was ADHD as hell and never paid attention. 

Later on, I watched a documentary. The revolutionaries who overthrew their monarchy also kidnapped their little boy in fear that he would grow up and re-establish the monarchy. They imprisoned and abused him, and he died of torture and abuse at age 10.

I doubt they mentioned that part when I was a kid in history class. It’s easy to say, “They never taught us this in school!” when you never paid attention and just got passed through by the system. Nowadays I just “wonder” if it was taught, instead of assuming. I do remember being about ten years old myself, seeing a picture of Marie Antoinette in a textbook and thinking “jeez” when I saw her hair. Kirsten Dunst was perfect for the part.