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One movie, ruined!

By pharyngula on February 22, 2011.

In a too rare fit of quality, our local theater is showing The King's Speech this week, which I keep hearing is wonderfully well made and a serious Oscar contender. I was thinking of going, but now Christopher Hitchens shreds its historicity — it's about yet another royal fascist-sympathizer — and Katherine Preston explains that it's got the neurology of the speech defect all wrong. I don't think I can watch it at all now. I can enjoy a fiction without apology, but I find it impossible to watch a false story that pretends to be true.

The reviews are annoying, too — they all praise the quality of the movie-making and the acting, while telling me that the core premises of the story are false. How can I enjoy it when Something Is Wrong On The Screen?

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