the King's speech movie review
Not only is contribution of place an important and essential element of occupation but place also contributes to occupation. Hence, the focus will be on the mutual influence between occupation and place. The change in occupation could bring in a new meaning to place, rules within places could be altered for specific occupational need, and one’s familiarity towards a place can prohibit or restrict occupation. The movie, The King’s Speech (Canning, & Hooper, 2011), will be used to illustrate how occupation and space change as the other changes. The King’s Speech is a movie about Britain's King George VI (or Berti called by his family and his speech pathologist) and his lifelong struggle to overcome his speech defect. Suffering from the stammer at a young age causes King George VI to feel anxious in delivering a public speech. Although King George VI tried various methods of therapies over the years, it was only Lionel Logue, a speech therapist, who enabled him to make remarkable progress. Lionel is an unconventional Australian raised therapist who uses unique and controversial ways of therapies. While King George VI and his wife both insisted that Lionel focus physical exercises such as muscle relaxation and breathing control techniques, Lionel continues to probe gently and persistently at the psychological roots of the stammer. There was a time when Lionel was challenged about his qualifications of being a speech therapist by an archbishop. This prompted a confrontation between King George VI and Lionel, who explained that he never claimed to be a doctor and had only begun practicing speech therapy by informal treatment of shell-shocked soldiers in the last war. The deepened connection between King George VI and Lionel opened a door for King George VI to reveal some of the pressures of his childhood. Those pressures are from his strict father; the repression of his natural left-handedness; a nanny who favoured his elder brother and the death of his little brother.