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The King's Speech is reeeally super good. Quite possibly the best film I've seen in theaters since Inception. It was almost like a sports movie, at times, in how Bertie is such an underdog and you root for him so hard and it's this physical challenge he has to overcome and you've got Lionel as his coach figure. I must admit during his speeches I was so invested I would catch myself thinking, Oh, come on, sweetheart, you can do it, even shutting my eyes once or twice like I could help him myself through will alone. And then there's lines like the above, which were so funny and just made Bertie that much more lovable. So basically, awesome job, Colin Firth.

I dunno, it's weird, but I really like films about royalty. I find the dynamics of their place in their culture fascinating, especially around and after the Industrial Revolution. Maybe it's because I'm American, so kings and queens and princes and princesses are really confined to fantasy, but these are real people, so there's an element to them that's kind of.. magical? Ancient, definitely, in a living, breathing way nothing in America can touch. I know that's really embracing the romance of it and not the obvious dark side, but still, it's just cool. But thinking of that dark side, I remember the line in The Queen about Elizabeth II watching "this job kill her father" and aww, Bertie *tear*. Never expected to have deep personal feelings for King George VI, but there you go.

The song that came on on the way home didn't help. It's Stupid Memory by Sondre Lerche and it's A) completely lovely and B) about Bertie, more or less. I mean, "And helplessness may be the word they pin to my name"? "In each crowded court there's a spot where I fall in love and short of public demand. There are no words they can't hear"? Yeah.

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