It is a fact that Catherine the Great had her husband, Peter, killed, but that at first she kept his death a secret, until the gossip got so much and an ex-soldier named Purgachev, inciting the masses as if he were the Tsar, forced her to confirm the crime. Of course, as she detested her husband, there was no suffering, the postponement of information was yet another strategy of control by the Court. In The Great, where the truth is only used occasionally, there is an element of personal suffering that we share with Catherine.

The accidental death of Peter, a husband she learned to love deviously, has left her in a mental state of denial, which is part of mourning, but which is dangerous at a time when Purgachev feeds the masses against the Nobles and which the Court does not like. of the Tsarina. In a hysteria that blinds her to what is really going on, we see Catherine (Elle Fanning) being dangerously manipulated and straying from her goals.

It’s kind of sad what the sensational comedy The Great doesn’t dramatically explore: Catherine’s loneliness no matter what she does. Not a single relationship was disinterested or honestly focused on her. Georgina (Charity Wakefield) finally reveals her plan to destroy the empress, now redoubled with the feeling of revenge for Peter. Only she and Grigor (Gwilym Lee), who shared a painful childhood with Peter (Nicholas Hoult) understood and loved him, especially Grigor. Everyone else has some kind of priority in power relations.

Trying to postpone the truth as much as possible, for her and for everyone else, Catherine accepts Georgina’s proposal for a day of “fun” where jokes and truths will be told, no matter who. At the same time, Purgachev (Nicholas Hoult too) is growing as a leader, touching the people with truths that are not said, more placing Marial (Phoebe Fox) as the unconscious antagonist of the “friend”. She has the opportunity to kill him, but deliberately refuses.

When Katya’s play is performed for the entire court, ridiculing Catherine and reminding everyone of the hypocrisy of her ideas, as well as the people she lost along the way, there is a glimpse of what made her being known as the Great. A coldness and conscience, but still with the pain of loss overwhelming her. Georgina manages to hit two rivals at the same time, Katya and Catherine, but it’s a risky plan. Soon the truth of what happened to Peter is spreading and the torpor is left aside. How will Catherine take back Russia without Peter? It’s the turn she wanted so much, but she still has many obstacles ahead of her, but the blindfold has been removed, at least in part.

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