Name : Boni Fasius Siregar

NPM : 208110014

Class : VI-B

The King’s Speech movie is so moving emotionally, it was that touching. Not only was it
compassionate about speech problems, it was sympathetic to Britain, the West and the British
monarchy before the Second World War.

King George VI was a British King famous for his stirring speeches; his brother King
Edward VIII who abdicated the throne and then married the American Wallis Warfield
Simpson had a more lingering, colorful, partying reputation. 

History shows King George VI made many important speeches during the war and his wife,
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of current Queen Elizabeth II, lived to the age of 104,
greatly beloved by the British. The monarchy has, since the time of Queen Victoria  at least,
left a legacy of compassion that continues with the British Crown to the present day.  The
movie is a tribute to the currently peaceful reign of one of the longest running monarchies in
British history

'The King's Speech' also interests the audience by illuminating the topic of true leadership.
Never before King George VI had a British monarch reigned while a previous one still lived.
The dangers inherent in a temporarily ambiguous monarchy in England as King Edward VIII
held the throne is a central story behind the movie. Germany in the late 1930s was
an immediate threat to safety in the daily lives of all the British. 

The story of a vulnerable and beleaguered nation facing peril they wished would go away lies
behind the story of a King with a disability he wished would, too. The King needed to be a
strong speaker to better serve his subjects, not one "afraid of his own shadow" but one who
could speak up in a strong voice to both soothe and defend a nation.

But the real story is the King's long-term dependence on the therapist, and how hard all the
people of Britain had to work for their survival as the storm clouds drew closer. Let's hope
America can't draw a parallel somehow to the present day. It's a movie with an entertaining
story from the past and many interesting lessons for the present.