The review is about THE KING’s SPEECH. What to do now its end of Feb & Oscar movies are not in MS list. Its totally nonsense’s. Anyway for me best actor award Oscar goes to Colin Firth outstanding performance I doubt any other actor deserves Oscar more than him. An excellent directed (Tom Hooper) cinema & mind blowing tight script(David Seilder). Its perfection at its best it’s not any movie it’s cinema at best. After Inception I am very impressed by this flick than true grit & social network, biutiful in this order.
Plot is biopic about England’s King George VI & his enduring fight to defeat his speech obstacle. Suffering from a stammer from the age of 4 or 5, the young Prince Albert(Colin Firth) fears public speaking meetings & history also shows that his speech at the closing of the 1925 Commonwealth exhibition in London was difficult for both him & everyone listening that day, I believe its recorded by BBC. He tried several different therapies over many years but his wife Queen Elizabeth(Helena Bonham Carter) finds out a so called Dr Lionel Logue(Geoffrey Rush) she goes to his office without telling him who she is & who will be his patient thats the way King met Lionel Logue, a speech therapist, slowly King is reluctant by the methods Lionel uses which contradicts his private Dr therapy but he began to make progress. Logue did not have a medical degree but had worked as an diction coach in the theatre & had worked with shocked soldiers after World War I.
In the course of therapy which he demands King should be in his office not in his house or big empire with a variety of techniques & hard work King learns to speak in such a way to make his barrier a minor problem & delivers a flawless speech heard around the world by radio when England declared war on Nazi Germany in 1939. The King & Logue remained lifelong friends. During all this he is younger kid of The King V (Michael Gambon ) when he dies the responsibility to handle British Empire goes to King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce) who is like a playboy kind of image, wants to marry Wallis Simpson (Eve Best), an American divorcee socialite, which can irritate a constitutional disaster. So all responsibility is on Prince Albert with his wife’s confidence & motivation he conquers his own disabilities to become a Loved King.
Plot looks simple but its biopic & about British Empire so there should be great research for costumes, the way people used to speak English during that era all sets & everything is perfect , hard to find any minor mistake. Excellent direction & script makes it one of the best biopic ever seen by Hollywood or in British Cinema. It makes for a smart historical cinema, that’s friendly, comically cynical, revealing & magnificent as a period drama that’s sophisticated in its details. It’s the bristly relationship between the gutsy king & the eccentric speech therapist that gives the flick its sincerity, genuine & meaningful expressive cinema. This is an actor’s dream role centric flick & they do their part to make it glorious flick. It’s at its most excellent when the personalities are engaged in the therapy sessions, as it courageously leaves them in tight situations that forces them to act friendly & wicked with each other despite the practice required for the royals to keep a proper distance from their personal things away from common people. It basically thrives as that rare era flick with an extreme wider convenience, due to not only the charismatic performances & the tight screenplay, but its odd, unusual subject stuff , secretarial for an almost unimportant feature of British history. Intense to deal more with characters within the vital support of a capably narrated losers story, Hooper has ribbed out of the brilliant script and mind blogging essential performances an electric satisfying that make use of the best of period cinema while omitting the worst. Hooper swiftly gets you sensitively devoted in the characters & a enthralling story, then takes you deep into an self-conscious friendship of two very different men from 2 different parts of society. Very funny in some places, full of tension in others and terribly moving at times, thats the beauty.
Hooper shows changing England with different ways like the technology of radio making new demands on the King. Preparing for the King’s succession ceremony the demands of the Archbishop of Canterbury are thrown aside for the demands of the sound technicians. Still the remarkable thing about this film is its geniality. Instead of being about the pressure of high government, the rise of Nazism going on in the background, it gets a believable gaze at the royal family as being likable & humble people. The differences between Sr King & Jr are shown like its just normal not melodrama. Tom Hooper has done a marvellous job with his script writer. Dialogues are great they are funny when its required & hard hitting when its essential.
Now comes about performances which makes it above all Oscar nominated flicks. I don’t have word for Colin he is outstanding no doubt he worked hard to get in to his character and that hard work shows, he deserves award. Geoffrey Rush is solid and determined as Logue, who sees it as his mission to help his king. Helena Carter is down to earth charming as Queen Elizabeth. She is supportive, encouraging & loving.
The King’s speech leaves me speechless, after Inception best cinema of last year.