The King's Speech

Today was Lenore's birthday (no I'm not going to reveal any details) and for a treat we decided to go out to the cinema. Yeah, alright, I know that we're not talking about painting the town red here but when you've got kids you take what you can get! So with Sarah kindly offering to babysit the choice was all Lenore's and since she's been wanting to see The King's Speech for weeks the outcome was never in doubt. Of course it's never that easy is it? This afternoon we discovered that the local Odeon had suffered a catastrophic heating breakdown, making frostbite a very real possibility, so we had to switch to Plan B; another time and another place!

Luckily everything turned out alright and as for the film - well it's no shock for me to say that it's well worth a couple of hours of anyone's time. Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are very much the main protagonists in the drama; they're on-screen together for the bulk of the film and it's their very believable relationship that makes the story ring true. Which is odd because how hard can it be for a King to have friends and with a commoner to boot; their worlds are just too incompatible. But it really happened and it makes sense given how personal an affliction a stutter is and how close you have to get to someone to overcome it. A pretty fine night out then and we even managed a pint in the pub afterwards. Now that is a result!