Looking at the list of Best Pictures for the last 15 years, I am at something less than .500 on those that I liked. Last night, however, we watched
The King's Speech and it truly was one of the best films that we have seen in a long time. It's a nice movie and there are far too few of them these days. The themes are the ones that we all experience in real life, albeit played out on a grander stage: fear, friendship, duty, persistence, courage, disappointment and hard-won triumph. Colin Firth deserved his Oscar for Best Actor. Geoffrey Rush deserved one as well. Across the board this was a well acted movie that did not rely on computer-generated special effects, blowing things up, naked bodies, juvenile antics, comic book heroes, or anything else other than real life struggles superbly portrayed by actors at the top of their game. It is a classic that will stand the test of time.
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