| SOUND AND FURY |
 2000
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USA
Director:
Josh Aronson - Reviewed by Linda
Sound and Fury is a passionate film about cultures clashing, community pride, and the wish of all parents to provide a better life for their children. The arguments of the deaf parents, in concern that their young daughter is ashamed of them and their culture, are passionate and emotional and bring up points that wouldn't occur to a hearing person. At the same time, the parents of the infant have their own perfectly valid reason to provide surgery for their small son before he grows up deaf and struggling in a hearing world. This Oscar-nominated documentary provides not only voice-over translations (by actors) of the sign language in the film, but supplies captions for those viewers that are hearing-impaired. Sound and Fury is an eye-opening portrayal of a proud culture that is afraid it will be brushed aside in the name of medical progress. |
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fascinating documentary follows the stories of two related families who are
exploring the medical option of restoring hearing to the deaf. Heather, a
precocious 6-year-old whose entire family is deaf, wants to fit in with her
hearing friends, and suggests to her parents that she get a cochlear implant, a
new medical device surgically implanted in the ear that creates the ability to hear
for those who can't. Her parents are horrified, thinking that she is rejecting
the deaf culture that her family is proud of. In the meantime, her father's
hearing brother and wife have newborn twins, one of whom is born deaf. That
couple immediately explores the surgical option for their infant son, despite the
protests of their relatives.