Movie review about The King’s Speech

Penny

Lately I’ve just watched a movie named The King’s Speech, which is a historical drama directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. The story is about King George VI who has a stammer problem, and his speech therapist Lionel Logue. Colin Firth plays the King and Geoffrey Rush plays speech therapist. The movie was released in the United Kingdom at the beginning of 2011. It was highly appreciated and received many awards, like the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay at Oscar and Best Actor at Golden Golbe and so on.

George VI becomes the king after his brother Edward VII abdicates. He have to make a significant speech as the new king on the day the Unite kingdom announces to start war with Germany at the beginning of World War II. The King worries about his stammer all the time. After a few awful speeches in public, everybody thinks he is hopeless, apart from his wife Elizabeth played by Helena Bonham Carter. She find Lionel Logue after a few therapists  fail to cure George’ stammer. George doesn’t trust Lionel at first which starts to change when he hear the tape of his smooth reading recorded by Lionel without telling him. With Lionel’s help, George gets better and better at making speech. They become friends as they work together. Eventually George has a great success in his speech of announcement.

Apart from  the long string of the awards, there are lots of reasons I recommend the film. I didn’t expect that  the plot is attracted unlike other historical movies which are usually boring. You can’t move your eyes from it during the 2 hours of running time. The actors’ acting is fabulous which always grips me. What matters the most for me is that the movie is meaningful because it shows us that nothing is impossible. You just need to keep faith, raise aspiration, reach full potential and you will succeed. I was impressed and inspired deeply. The friendship between the king and the speech therapist is also wonderful. Can you imagine the king treat a member of the public as a important friend and so does Liojnel.