(My Rating: 3.8/5)
The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays King George VI, who, to overcome his stutter, is introduced to Lionel Logue, an unorthodox Australian speech therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The two men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates, the new king relies on Logue to help him make a radio broadcast at the beginning of World War II according to Wikipedia.
An Oscar’s big winner movie….To be fair, it’s a good (but not excellent) movie with very good production, photography and actor/actress acting performance. So, it’s understandable for Colin Firth to win the Best Actor award (though I think it’s not his best and his play in “Single Man” is even better). For Best Director, well, it’s ok though not too convincing for me….but I really have hesitation for this movie to win Best Picture award as the whole movie is quite flat and single line that is not quite memorable, convincing and moving as the type of award-winning movie we all can recall….maybe it’s world war II historical epic nature helps a lot!!!
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