The King’s Speech: Lovely movie, ugly history
The King’s Speech is an extremely well-made film with a seductive human-interest plot, very prettily calculated to appeal to the smarter filmgoer. But it perpetrates a gross falsification of history.
Why The King’s Speech is a gross falsification. Christopher Hitchens rates the historical accuracy of the Oscar frontrunner in the Guardian.
Given that The King’s Speech is a lie and The Social Network may be character assassination, the leading nominees will just have to be judged on the basis of cinematic merit. Wait, is historical truth a cinematic merit? If you want 100 percent historical accuracy, go for a work of fiction. Yay, Toy Story 3.
February 2nd, 2011 at 03:26
I still can’t get over Pan’s Labyrinth. Mostly because I finished it just a few minutes ago.
Zombading(s?), will its screening push through this February?