Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush
Genre: Biopic, Drama
Director: Tom Hooper
Produced By: Bedlam Productions
IMDb Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1504320/
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| Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush as King George VI and Lionel Logue, respectively |
Description of Movie: "[The King's Speech] tells the story of the man who became King George VI [6th]... After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war." -Anonymous Writer
Review: Wow. There really aren't enough words of praise in the Englsih language that can satisfy what I feel about this movie. Before watching The King's Speech, I first watched a documentary on the real King George VI. One of my favourite things about this movie is that it accurately told the history of the King's childhood, throughout various Bertie/Lionel scenes, which is always a great touch. I felt that this movie accurately portrayed the debilitation that the stammer caused Bertie through the years of his lifetime. For someone who does suffer from a stammer, this movie was very inspiring, although my stammer is not as profound as Bertie's was...and in fact, the only time that I don't stammer (aside from swearing, singing, etc.) is when I am on stage performing. The one thing about theis movie that I liked so much was when the audience could see Bertie using the mechanical practices (that Lionel had gone over with Bertie) while he was delivering his various speeches; I felt that this added a great element and effect to the movie overall. Although this whole movie was very inspiring and powerful, the one scene that really touched me the most actually occured towards the start of the movie, when Bertie recites the famous monologue from Shakespeare's Hamlet and later realizes that he can actually speak without stammering. The pauses in the movie for comic relief, also added to the greatness of this flick.
Anyways, it looks like this review is going nowhere and getting a little long-winded. So I am going to finish off the way I started.
Wow.
I truly would recommend this movie to ANYONE, stammer-er or not; and think that this is a movie worth watching again and again. This could possibly be one of the greatest movies I have ever seen in my life...aside from Mrs. Doubtfire of course!
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| King George VI (Firth) before his famous War-time speech followed by his wife Queen Elizabeth (Helene Bonahm Carter) |
Overall Letter Grade: A++
Buy, Rent or Skip?: Buy...and watch again, and again
