Talk Like a King, My Son (original) (raw)

The King’s Speech – I hadn’t originally intended to watch this movie, but my mom had received tickets from her work for agreeing to work on Christmas, so we went to see it today. I didn’t really know anything about it previously, but it was about how King George VI underwent unorthodox treatment in order to overcome his speech impediment. The film’s structure was pretty familiar if you’ve seen just about anything concerning a radical therapist making a breakthrough with someone when traditional doctors failed, but it was well acted, and I found the historical context interesting. The film suggested that the king’s stammer had developed due to his his cold, strict upbringing, which doesn’t strike me as all that far-fetched. Oh, and remember how I said in my review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 that I wasn’t sure Helena Bonham Carter could play any other roles? Well, I guess that’s not true, since I didn’t get the sense in this movie that Queen Elizabeth (the mother of the current one) wanted to have filthy sex with a dark lord. I think it might have been because her hair was brushed. {g}