Incredible...

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2011)

Perfection is a term often thrown around when the result is no more than a mediocre flop which will end up in the £1 sale basket at Blockbusters. I believe that perfection genuinely is not possible in certain professions due to everyones variant taste in entertainment and enjoyment, meaning that one person may call a film 'an emotional joy ride' and another may say 'a load of over blown nonsense'. Therefore to truly achieve perfection you must be able to reach out to all different tastes in entertainment. Many have tried this by throwing big money at a new project to hire the biggest names in the business expecting them to automatically deliver the goods in impeccable order when the result is, lets try and put it nicely, not brilliant. So where does The Kings Speech fit into this debate? Well it wasn't a film with a budget large enough to feed all of Africa or to nearly pay a whole days salary for a premiership footballer. Luckily they only needed three cast members to portray the tragic story of King George the Sixth's emotional life story of the King who didn't feel worthy or willing. Colin Firth somehow managed to bring the script to life in a way which was more convincing than any other character in any other film i know of. He managed to make even the most stuck up and arrogant looking man shed the slightest of a tear. Then we come to the character without who the story of his unexpected rise to the top of power would have been very different. The story of how Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) used his unorthodox methods to rid him of this life long dilemma which has been holding him back since the age of 4 and in the process, became a close personal friend of the King. However this match made in heaven wouldn't have happened without the persuasion of The Dutchess of York (Helen Bonham Carter) to visit this unconventional doctor, she does so with the honest belief that he could be cured, even after the numerous qualified doctors they had previously visited, she continued to search for a solution which she eventually found in the form of an unqualified, some would say, weird doctor who's practises seem ludicrous at first, end up changing his life. So are there any clear faults or downsides to this film? Well apart from the fact it hasn't won more awards, i generally think that this film is flawless. Have they truly achieved perfection? Well, they are close enough...