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The King's Speech is a 2010 historical drama directed by Tom Hooper and

written by David Seidler. The setting is England between the years 1925 to
1939
This is the story of a man compelled to speak to the world with a stammer.
If its hard for one who stammers to speak to another person, imagine facing
the radio microphone and knowing the British Empire is listening. At the
time of the speech, a quarter of the Earth's population was in the Empire,
and of course much of North America, Europe, Africa and Asia would be
listening, and specially Germany.
In 1939 the king was George VI. Britain was entering into war with
Germany. His listeners required firmness, clarity and resolve, not stammers
punctuated with tortured silences. This was a man who never wanted to be
king. After the death of his father, the throne was to pass to his brother
Edward. But Edward renounced the throne because he wanted to married
the woman he loved and the throne was instantly ceded to Prince Albert,
who had struggled with his speech from an early age.

This is a very good movie, in part because of the actor Colin Firth, who
plays the future king. Reveals the internal, physical, psychological and
social hurdles people who stutter face daily. Many times during the movie
you experience the king's anger, pain, humiliation and self doubts about his
abilities and manhood as he stutters.

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