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Movie Review—The King's speech
Film Review—The King’s speech
The King’s speech is a historical based biopic about King George VI; the Duke of York (known as Bertie in his family) who went on to assume the throne of England in 1936. The movie was mainly descripting the journey of him to overcome his painful struggle among public speech, and how he gains help from Australian therapist—Lionel Logue. George conquered his stammer and found his voice to lead his people to face the most devastating war humanity has ever faced.
First of all the movie had taught me is to have faith in our own voice. From the unhappy childhood of Bertie that he was ignored by his father, he lost faith in himself and his stammer goes terribly. But as long as he started to believe that he CAN, he can. As we always said confident is what bring communication alive. For sure support from his wife is a main reason for him to overcome his lack of faith in himself too.
Second specific action in the movie is to admit that we need help. Reason that the king can overcome his disability is because of cooperating with Lionel, and all that happened because of him admitting his problem and accept the suggestion from his wife, Elizabeth. None of us would be perfect and we all need help in a certain level, the process that admitting we need help is actually pushing us grow and enhance ourselves to be better in public speech, as if you don’t know yourself, the audience won’t.

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