Review of The King's Speech

The King's speech is a British film directed by Tom Hooper, the director of other films such as Les Misérables (2012) or The Danish Girl (2015).

This film belongs to the historical genre and it has comedy parts which attenuate reduce the drama.

The plot, in general, shows a stressful part of the life of the Duke of York (Colin Firth). He suffered stuttering and elocution was vital to develope one of his main functions when he became king: being able of to delivering a speech.

The film shows this period when new responsibilities came to him and he could not take them on because of his problem. He had visited different speech therapists without any progress until he found a humble Australian speech-language pathologist called Lionel Logue who became, finally, a very special friend.

It is a film which shows a problem not only of the first world, but of the royalty (in fact, the film emphasizes more in how he talks than what he says, which, in my oppinion, would be the most important). Because of this reason, we could think that it could be difficult for the public to emphathize with the Duke of York/ George VI, who is the main character of the film. Nevertheless, the staging of the moments when he needs to speak in public are so well done that we suffer with him like as if it would be were a horror film.

It is good as well because it is not the  a plot that we are familiar with. And, for that, I am truly grateful.