This is a movie that makes people feel a little heavy to read the synopsis, but the actual look and feel will be very rich and wonderful. It's about a family's misfortune, about a girl's growth, about love and separation, about estrangement and reconciliation. The story is not complicated, it can even be summed up in one sentence: a girl who grew up in a deaf-mute family, clarifies the fetters of her original family, and after struggling and growing up, was finally admitted to the top Berklee College of Music and reconciled with her family. . It sounds cruel, but also inspirational enough. The inspirational part is the chicken soup that is more "big road goods". It is suitable for all ages, both elegant and simple, and the singing is beautiful, which is the good-looking part that makes the movie heal and comfort. What is even more surprising about the film is that it shows the complex level of a family, not the suffering of disabled families in the stereotype, whether it is the relationship between the outside world and society, or the complex and subtle emotional connection between people inside the family , are hearty enough and have a long aftertaste.
This is a very easy situation to imagine and portray, and another part that the director focuses on makes her loneliness and hardship even more heartbreaking. Ruby's dilemma is that not only in the normal world, she has become an alien in the eyes of others, but to her deaf family, her "normal" makes her excluded from the family, she seems to be a shuttle People in two worlds are not accepted by either side. The more dramatic key is that this girl from a deaf-mute family has extremely high musical talent and is a little genius with a beautiful voice. It was as if God had made up for the entire family's lack of sound on this special child. In the processing of sound, the subtle psychological manifestation of adolescence is transformed into a fierce collision between the sound world and the silent world, which is also a remarkable point of the film's audio-visual processing of the match between the form and the theme. Ruby certainly loves her family, but the burden of that love is clearly too heavy on the shoulders of a teenage teenager. What's more, her family seems to be really annoying. They are vulgar, selfish, and self-righteous. Of course, they have the inferiority, cowardice and helplessness that belong to the disadvantaged group, but because of their special status, they have a particularly strong glass-like self-esteem.
In three scenes where girls sing for their families, the director uses silence, touching the vocal cords and singing with sign language to open up the synaesthesia between sound and silence. On the one hand, it shows the deaf-mute family members trying to approach and understand the girl's dream from the audiovisual aspect. The process from dazed to excited; on the other hand, as the audio-visual senses progress from separation to blending again and again, one can also feel the inner bridging and reconciliation of the two "camps". The intuitive real feeling that transcends language is also a kind of subtle password for the "healing feeling" that the film conveys to the audience. Going back to the real level, "The Listening Girl" certainly has a "chicken soup" part, because the realistic contradiction that was originally set to the extreme opposition, how much when it used "moral kidnapping" to force Ruby to struggle and be overwhelmed. Harsh, somewhat pale in the final "power for love" to reach a settlement. When the final expression can only stop at the emotional level, the "healing" feeling is still somewhat unpleasant, and this "unpleasantness" is also a certain aftertaste of the movie.
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