"Priscilla"

Finally got to see this wanna-be award nominee and the take is ... "meh".  Frankly, there have been a few Elvis projects out there and the bar is high.  Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" certainly had far more energy than this production.  That film didn't do much for Priscilla's tale, though, and this movie is really about her and barely about our erstwhile musician.  And that's the problem.  To understand the relationship we need to see the heat, the passion, the two people caught in an impossible situation.  All we see is a very (very very) innocent Priscilla.  She's bored.  She's lonely.  She's bored again.  She's jealous.  She's helpless.  It's very hard to connect when she is such a ... passive ... leading lady.  She raises her voice from a whisper once ... near the end ... and it seems to come from nowhere.  The same goes with the actual ending.  We see her leave Graceland but nothing in the film leads us there as to how she finds her self-efficacy.  There is supposedly an affair (on her part) but that is glossed over.  The whole thing feels sanitized.  Maybe the book had more context but this seems more like flipping through a photo album.  "Young Priscilla".  "Sad Priscilla".  "Priscilla has a baby" -- but again, other than some shots of her with the kid, there is no structure as to what that relationship was (clearly, problematic).  I appreciate that Priscilla Presley wanted to get her story out there, but this is too heavily edited to buy into.  Like a one-sided therapy session when one party doesn't show for couples' counselling.  Oh well.  There will surely be another film or two exploring the topic.  Whether it's Elvis or Marilyn, Americans love tragedy.