Stuttering often represents a psychological barrier.
The hero Bertie is facing a powerful father and a wayward brother.
The forces they formed suppress him. Since childhood,
he has been fiercely corrected by his father and his brother is ridiculed.
All this makes his stuttering more and more. serious.
In front of his father and brother, his stuttering was the most serious.
In his mind, responsibility, power, and public expectations are the
same as those of his father and brother. These are his psychological problems.
What makes him better?
Unlike other upper-class women, she is open-minded and smart, deeply in love with his wife,
and a pair of lovely daughters. In front of them, he hardly stutters.
The description of the family atmosphere in the movie is very moving, almost the same as that of the commoner Lionel’s family.
(In the movie, it’s the two scenes before and after, two families, two fathers.) The
family is Bertie’s haven, revealing The warmth and intimacy of ordinary people.
When he faced his responsibilities and had to become a king, his problems aggravated.
The death of his father and the abdication of his elder brother did not open up his inner crux,
but formed a greater shadow of responsibility, forcing him to fight with his weakest item:
that is, to make a speech in front of the public.
He is facing an unprecedented crisis.
How to become a king?
The habitual thinking is to be regal, confident, majestic,
grand, powerful, convincing, and even fearful.
He should do a lot of external work, such as conquests, such as coups, such as diplomacy...
What's interesting is that in this movie, before he becomes a king, he
must first become an ordinary person, a complete person.
When he talked to Lionel as a king, the latter refused to answer, and
only accepted when he asked the other person to listen as a person.
In that era, the king was no longer the divine monarch, and the
era has passed. The royal family is only a symbol.
This is a deeper spiritual crisis that Bertie faced after becoming king:
war is imminent, he has no power, no The army has nothing.
He is a king with nothing, apart from speeches, apart from spiritual support,
he can't do more for his people.
And this sense of powerlessness was finally resolved, in the civilians.
Lionel is a commoner, but he is constantly, constantly, and constantly demanding equality,
peer-to-peer communication between hearts, sharing, profoundness, and intimacy... The
king and queen talked and laughed happily in a commoner’s home, yes The small climax of the film.
From here, Bertie accepted his identity and his powerlessness.
He changed from passive acceptance to active acceptance. If the king can only make speeches,
then well, I will make a perfect one. Speech.
In general, "The King's Speech" is a well-deserved movie. The
play is stable and the main characters are written authentically, especially Elizabeth and Lionel.
These two characters are very charming and full of theirs. Personality, not too much personality.
If there are any shortcomings, I think the creators have written Bertie’s father and brother David
too simplistically, simply rude and indifferent, and simply evade responsibility.
If these two characters are more plump, generous, and more flexible, then It's better.
Become a complete person, an open person, to become a true king.
Instead, a king, for his own cause, can be incomplete, closed, or unfortunate.
In our movies, we even use this to extol the greatness of a king, which is regarded as sacrifice and dedication.
Can I better fulfill my mission by emphasizing personal sacrifice?
No, I think, at least "The King's Speech", and their audience, don't believe it.
Be yourself first, and then change the world.
Because everyone is a small world.
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