I’m not a huge moviegoer, I’ve never seen myself a move critic, and even if I wanted to describe a movie, I don’t think I have the required language to do even the best made films the justice they deserves. Sure, I’ve read plenty of movie reviews and know that phrases like “it’s a period drama”, “it’s led by a cast of Academy award winners…”, “the genre…”, are the word tools of many a critics. I, on the other hand, want to share with you that above all, the simple joy that I experienced while watching The King's Speech.
Without overstating the sheer pleasure of seeing this movie for the first time, I couldn’t but help letting the words of Disney’s “A whole new world” run through my mind. “I can show the world,..I can open your eyes, take you wonder by wonder over sideways and under on a magic carpet ride…a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view…”. In the same way, this beautiful film transports us, as on a magic carpet, completely sideways, under and over and unfolds the meaning of friendship, loyalty, courage, and yes, even tells a compelling story of personal triumph in a way that makes us lose all sense of time and savior every moment of this experience.
Tom Hooper’s new film, details the relationship between King George VI (Colin Firth) and his impertinent speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) against a visually stunning and historically fascinating backdrop. The King’s Speech works not because we watch a historical royal overcome a debilitating verbal ailment, but because we watch a human being do so. This is the film’s greatest strength – two men, from vastly different worlds, class, and privilege form a bond that transients all that is expected of each, the British Empire and the new king, the credential-less [speech therapist], who uses a sign on his office door that says only “Speech Defects” and his loving family.
While this film is set in the tumultuous era of 1930s Britain, it tells the intriguing story of how King George VI rose to the throne while battling a debilitating speech impediment. However, the dialogue between the two men (during the speech lessons) breaks from historical account as there probably isn’t official record of what was said between George VI and Logue, and the scenes therefore become are infinitely better for it.
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