No visual effects, no beauties, and no costumes. You don’t have to put on your glasses and keep your eyes open in front of the big screen for two hours with yelling. This movie is not responsible for locking your eyes, igniting your hormones, or substituting your emotions. It just blooms with 360-degree beauty without dead ends, like an epiphany blooming in the middle of the night, clearly quiet and without climax, but every second and every minute is climax, so graceful and luxurious that you need to use slow motion to experience it.
There is no doubt that the storyline of "The King's Speech" is described in a pale way: there used to be a stammering king, and then he stopped stammering. This is a story that is destined to be inspirational, in other words, boring no matter how you tell it. How to do? Rely on tension. Where does the tension come from? One depends on performance, and the other depends on editing.
As soon as this film was released, the voice for Colin Firth's winning of the actor rose again. People seem to be struggling to forget how he was as good as ever by the Oscars in "A Single Man". But for "The King's Speech", Colin Firth's own performance is not the only key, he needs to form tension with other equally important actors. Fortunately and happily, Jeffery Rush has ensured this, Helena Bonham-Carter has ensured this, Guy Pearce has ensured this, and all the actors involved in the film have ensured that this tension surrounds Colin Firth all the time, in the film The King George VI of King George VI makes his every scene, every minute of brewing and breaking out, every turn has a perfect response, making this perhaps the most challenging role of Colin Firth since filming to be able to perform smoothly in the difficulty of language. The emotional turn of the story accumulates a heavy sense of performance in the flimsy part of the story.
Yes, Colin Firth has undoubtedly reached the master-level performance level. He makes a stuttering king possess both pitiful and respectable qualities at the same time, and he makes the unremarkable speech scenes turn into twists and turns. But an actor alone, no matter how good he is, can’t make a movie a work of art, and when Jeffery Rush’s head was exposed from the door, when Helena Bonham-Carter smiled just right. When the time sheds just a drop of tears, when Jennifer Ehle used only one-third of his face to express various levels of surprise, you know that this is a way for Colin Firth to show off his acting skills. On the platform, there will always be a comparable opponent to respond. Whether it’s light or trusting the rein, you will never pass it, let alone go wrong. It will only be more exciting and exquisite. It is worthy of careful scrutiny and repeated appreciation with a magnifying glass. .
The editing of the film provides a second layer of guarantee for the pure tension accumulated by the performance. At the end of the film, George VI’s speech on the declaration of war was only over three minutes from beginning to end, but what did I see? Under the rhythm of the language perfectly matched by Beethoven’s seventh symphony, the camera's sketches of people from all walks of life in Britain gradually spread out. , I saw Britain’s most proud temperament and aura, the calmness and indifference to face the worst, the awakening of ten thousand people without much fanfare, the passion and determination in the calm. The open-minded self-confidence contained in it is the highest respect for human nature, and that is the deepest grace of the soul. This is the end of a climax in the silent place, which makes me sit upright, making me stand up and applaud.
In many cases, British films see the big from the small, but seek exquisiteness but not the grandeur. Although they have a gentle style, they will make people tired after a long time. This is the slack of being bombarded by commercial box office 3D bombs. it's the same. But once a British film has the tradition of being able to rewind and unwind in performance, and at the same time reach the balance of its own narrative rhythm, it becomes a masterpiece. Once the masterpiece has an impeccable tension, it will be beautiful, it will be the epiphany blooming in no one, it will be a work of art.
The King's Speech is a work of art, and appraisal is welcome.
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