Now that audiences will finally have a chance to see The King’s Speech, they can assess for themselves whether they can “relate” to a movie — based on a true story — in which a stuttering monarch works with a speech therapist to overcome his deficiency. That’s a question critics, journalist-types and Oscar watchers have been pondering since the movie started gathering buzz in Toronto in September, and plenty of critics have already called the movie middlebrow. While they don’t necessarily mean the word as a perjorative, their use of it does give the sense that a movie is something you examine from the safe end of a long stick, and in the case of The King’s Speech, yes, by golly, the ordinary folk out there just might take to it.
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