Over the weekend, Nina and I checked out The King’s Speech at our local village cinema. I was particularly keen to go after watching Roger Simon and Lionel Chetwynd rave about the film in a recent edition of PJTV’s Poliwood.
They weren’t wrong.
But let’s look at a couple of interpretations of what the film means. Nowhere near as deep as this guy, but what the heck, let’s see what happens.
Remember how the left went nuts (I know, I know, but hang on, I’m going to narrow it down a bit) when conservatives found a pro-Bush subtext in The Dark Knight? You could make a similar case — and perhaps it’s just as unintentional from the filmmakers — that there’s one as well in The King’s Speech.
WARNING: SPOILERS GALORE FOLLOW ON THE NEXT PAGE — IF YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLAND IN THE 1930s, DON’T READ ANY FURTHER!
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