The King's Speech movie review

       Stammering could be normal for a kid, but it is not for a king. The King's speech (2011)is a story about a self-overcoming of King George VI who has a bad stammer problem, and since he cannot avoid speaking in public, this could become a very serious problem. Fortunately, there's someone who can help, but the King has to overcome another thing in his life, in order to get the help, and that thing is his heart.

      To begin with, the visualization of the movie has its stunning points. The slow motion opening scene depict great pressure from the public who are waiting to listen to the king's speech. It helps the audience get the feeling of that pressure and put oneself in his shoes. This is clever, because normally it is hard for an ordinary people to imagine oneself as a king, the movie shows an aspect of the king as a normal people who can be afraid of such a great pressure, same as us.

      King George VI, played by Colin Firth, nothing so new or so great in his acting except he looks like a real stammering person. On the other hand, Helena Bonham Carter who plays the role of Elizabeth, the King's wife, has changed from her devilish look into a high-status lady in this movie. She gave a sense of a true-friend kind of wife and also not a very snobbish nobility. She did a great job of being a fine woman, finally. 

     Nothing new has been told, it is a character-driven movie which tells the story of a man who finally overcome himself with a help from his friend and beloved ones. The audience can easily predict the end of the story which probably can be guessed right after watching the trailer. Has this kind of a feel-good movie become a recipe for the Oscars winner? May be it is because what's going on our world now is too cruel to be a story.

     There is no heart wrenching scene, there is nowhere you can lose a drop of tear with.The moral of the story is not so deep. It is easy for everyone to understand, also can be easily forgotten in the next ten minutes.

Shitty First Drafts

This week my teacher asked me to write about a chapter from a book we read in class named "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott. The book is about writing instructions and the chapter name is "Shitty First Drafts".

When we see a beautiful piece of artwork or a very good piece of article or a very good book, we usually think that the artist or the author who has created it must be a genius. That is half true, but if you think carefully, what you always skip while admiring it is the process of making that piece of work. Another half of the truth is that great works are consist of inspiration and the most important thing, the effort.

The writer asserts that a genius writer who has his/her idea flow smoothly is super super rare. If you want to do something you shouldn't be afraid to start. I know how it feels when you see a very nice work. It terrifies you. When I saw a very nice piece of work from my friend. I always felt wow, I wouldn't be able to do something like that. I did skip another half part of the truth that if I tried hard enough, I would have done something good like him/her.

Most of people hate making mistakes and hate the fact that they would look stupid in others' views. I am one of them, I always wanted to look cool by trying to make everything good in the first time. However, concentrating on making it looks good to the others' eyes makes my work become worse. 

While we are working, those noises of self-consciousness and paranoia thoughts are always keep saying something in our head. Something like, this is not good enough! You should be ashamed of expressing this idea! or people are not gonna like this work! The writer suggests that we should keep those noises in a jar and close the lid so that we don't hear what they are saying. Pretend that you are alone in this world and are free to do anything, even the craziest things. By this way you will be able to expand your creativity and create a great work!

"All the good writing begins with terrible first efforts" (Anne Lamott, 1995). I agree with the author that we all should have the shitty first drafts, not just in writing but in everything we do.