you’ll learn to sleep with one eye open. to never turn your back. i’ll be in heaven, just thinking day and night of ways to kill you. and you’ll be in hell, wondering when it’s coming—and you know that it will be coming. because you know that i’ll never rest, never idle, never stop, until i am standing above your corpse, holding—in my delicate, manicured hands—your still-beating heart. 💖 the princess (2022)💖
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𝓟𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘 (2022) | available on Hulu | Joey King as the Princess &
Veronica Ngô (Ngô Thanh Vân) as Linh
“And always remember, Princess, the real power is not from your blade, but from your heart.”
Coming at you with another recommendation. Had so much fun watching this one, Joey was amazing in the main role and omg Linh… she’s now on my list of top favorite heroines.
the princess is the medieval version of the raid but in reverse where the mc fights her way down the tower instead and everyone should watch it actually 🤲 im giving it heart eyes for the almost non-stop action scenes with fun and fast-paced sequences, thank u for the gore and bloody murder women ❤️
This was a pretty good time. Seeing the trailer for the first time I was interested in what it was selling but at the same time I was wary that the film wasn’t going to live up to the straightforward promise of said trailer. “Princess in tower fights her way out” was what I wanted and, thankfully, exactly what I got.
The fighting is fun, plentiful, and bloody(thank the gods this was R-rated) and the film mercifully didn’t try to have an epic plot, letting the simplicity of its concept being the whole of it(no needless end of the world junk here).
Even though the film is straightforward I wish it was even more stripped back, the brief flashbacks we get are all unnecessary and they ruin the wonderful momentum the rest of the film has. I would go so far as to say that I think the film would’ve benefited from never leaving the protag’s side, the story is so simple that I don’t think seeing the flashbacks or even the villain plotting add anything. There is one exchange in the film between our heroine and villain towards the end before they throw down, says all that needs to be said.
If you want Joey King swinging a sword(you do), Olga Kurylenko with a whip, and a plethora of gross medieval dudes getting stabbed, The Princess is just what you need.
Now, not every Princess who doesn’t care for all the frippery, and dresses, and marriage, and all that, is queer(or are they?) but yeah, the titular Princess is as queer as you can be without actually being explicitly so.
