Think back to the terrifying moment when you gave your first public speech. You may be a great storyteller when surrounded but friends and family. But now you step onto the podium looking out to an audience of strangers who are all focused on you starting your speech. Your mouth is getting dry, your tongue is getting heavy. The audience is waiting for you to say something and you know you might not be able to pull this off well and be branded failure in full public view. Now imagine that you a have a stammer since childhood. This moment will be even more terrifying. Welcome the opening scene of The King’s Speech, which chronicles the ascent of George IV to the British thrown in 1936. During the first half of the film I was a bit unconformable because it seemed to me a rather overt promo for the Monarchy. While I don’t object that countries like Great Britain and Sweden continue to having a King or Queen, I don’t support the idea that a country like the U.S.A or Germany should bring in a monarchy. But later on the film becomes so good that I left the theatre content.

The Oscar for best actor that Colin Firth received a few weeks ago is fully deserved. Watch him give a magnificent performance that will leave you asking: How was he able do enact a stammerer so convincingly!