Today we have been to the movies. I might have seen a slightly different movie to everyone else, as I took my evening tablets in the am by mistake, and so got an extra dose of the marvelous medications that settles down my brain for the night. However, the movie was so compelling, I didn’t even fall asleep.
The King’s Speech is a tour de force. Who would have thought that one could make a compelling movie about a man with a stammer and his speech therapist? Yet it is so much more than that. It is about a man finding his voice and finding a friend. It is about a man so secure in himself that he holds to what experience has taught him in the face of establishment power.
Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are both amazing in their roles. Firth is one of my favorite actors and he inhabits the role as if born with a stammer. His fight to regain his voice becomes the equal of any blockbuster where the hero shoots a dozen villains at a time with a souped up machine gun. And Rush’s Lionel is a well of compassion and empathy, rock solid in his companionship “under fire.”
