"Listening Girl"

Toby 2022-09-16 03:38:38

The film tells the story of a high school girl who was born in a deaf family but has normal hearing and accidentally joins the school choir and meets the choir teacher and finally decides to pursue her music dream. The overall rhythm is very comfortable, interspersed with the daily life of family members, or contradictions, or warmth. At the same time, the daily song rehearsal of the choir in the campus life is also a highlight of the film. The interlude and the chorus of the male and female protagonists are particularly beautiful. The character of the heroine Ruby is inferior and brave, sensitive and free and easy. She has always assisted her father and brother to go fishing together. As a language transmitter between the family and the outside world, when she found her dream, she did not give up easily, but when her mother repeatedly expressed that the family needed her to continue to go fishing together. Can express her thoughts bravely, vent her anger and dissatisfaction boldly, and use her own "strike" actions to fight. Ruby can meet a good teacher like the head of the choir, Mrs. Wei, who is good at discovering the strengths of students , and can use a vivid way to liberate the students' musical nature, so that Ruby, who originally planned to give up and go to college, re-found the direction of her life. It is the so-called Maxima often, and Bole not often. Many people often do not meet good teachers and friends who appreciate themselves and continue to lead them to grow.

In addition, what the film actually wants to convey to the audience is that the deaf or disabled and other marginalized groups are sometimes not as weak and unable to take care of themselves as we imagined. They are more eager for this society to treat them fairly and give them the same respect. with understanding.

"Hearing Girl" focuses on a special group - the deaf and mute, and treats the conflicts between dreams and reality, the inferiority complex and bravery in growing up, and the unavoidable communication barriers between deaf and mute parents and healthy children. way presented.

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CODA quotes

  • Frank Rossi: The song you sang tonight. What was it about?

    Ruby Rossi: It was about... what it is to need another person.

    Frank Rossi: Can you sing it for me?

  • Ruby Rossi: [signing] Did you ever wish I was deaf?

    Jackie Rossi: [signing] When you were born, at the hospital, they gave you a hearing test. And there you were, so tiny and sweet, with those electrodes all over you. And I... prayed that you would be deaf. When they told us that you were hearing, I felt... My heart sank.

    Ruby Rossi: [signing] Why?

    Jackie Rossi: [signing] I was worried that we wouldn't connect. Like me and my mom, we're not close. I thought I would fail you. That being deaf would make me a bad mom.

    Ruby Rossi: [signing] Don't worry. You are a bad mom for so many other reasons.

    [They laugh]