The Kings Speech

So I just watched this movie, "The Kings Speech," and was quite impressed. I thought it was going to be kind of slow and that it wouldn't add up to all the hype it received, but I was pleasantly surprised.

It's was one of those movies that holds significance to me in certain ways (no, I've never had to deal with stammering or stuttering) and maybe that's why I liked it as much as I did. But there were specifically two one-liners that stuck out to me. To give a little background, the Duke of York becomes King George VI and has a very difficult time speaking clearly because he stammers and stutters. He finds help from a man, Dr. Lionel, who coaches him through his impairment. At one point in the movie during a conversation Lionel and King George were having he reveals that he has struggled with this stammering problem since he was about 5 years old. As the conversation progresses, Lionel tells him, "You don't have to be afraid of what you were when you were five."


In another scene toward the end of the movie, Lionel is trying to get the King to work on his big speech (the one in which he accepts the throne and all that jazz) but the King is getting frustrated and does not want to try. Lionel sits on the throne which is extremely significant. The King turns around and begins yelling at him because it is completely inappropriate for him to be sitting in this "sacred" place. Lionel pesters the King with question after question, only making his temper flare more rapidly when Lionel yells, "Well why does it matter?!" and the King replies with, "BECAUSE I HAVE A VOICE!" That was the point that Lionel was trying to get across all along.

So...with that jumbled mess of explanation, basically all I wanted to say was, "You don't have to be afraid of what you were when you were five" and "I HAVE A VOICE!" Fears do not stay and cripple, I have a voice, and what I have to say is significant.