Rabu, 16 Februari 2011

The King's Speech

As a film, it's enjoyable. Lovely actors, sets, costumes, dialogues etc.

As a true story... It makes me wonder about how 'brave' the King really is.
I mean... who doesn't have crosses to bear?
As a member of the royal family, one has the responsibility to carry one's duty for one's country. Nothing 'exceptional' about that.

A king overcomes his stutter, he gets applause for war speeches, name goes down in history, a film is made about him decades later.

A commoner overcomes the same stutter, he may get a good grade for language in school, get a decent job, start a family, ages, dies...

Same stutter, same effort to overcome it, but no award-winning film made about the stuttering commoner.

It's the King's Speech, silly.
Not the commoner's speech.

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