The King's Speech (2010)

This is about a man with a stammer problem and all the royal affairs which lead him into kinghood, and then all the problems that his stammering causes him in his kingly duties. And, most of all perhaps, about the therapy he goes through.

I can't give a perfectly sure opinion about the cinematography of this film. What I saw was a horribly darkened, bluish thing, which for all I know may have been caused by a projection problem. My country is not very serious in what concerns the quality of services that the citizen pays for, so this is the sort of thing we are used to expect now and then. Now for the other aspects of the film. I would have watched it anyway, because the theme of stammering is a favorite of mine, and may in a broad sense be said to be the only theme I actually care about, aside from the one of laterality, which is related to it, and is covered in a very fleeting way by the movie. Other than that, it is an obviously silly production, not to be taken seriously either in the historical sense (read the wikipedia article and check out its "minor" historical inaccuracies) or as a dramatization of a medical problem and its therapy, or as anything else one might want to construe it to be. As a side note mostly to myself, I point out that the choice of the Hamlet soliloquy at one of the therapeutic sessions is thematically interesting, since it links stammering to indecision. Some other references (Othello, Richard III) are perhaps farther removed from the theme, but all three Shakespearean characters deal with some sort of personal inadequacy.

Rating: 48