"Hearing Girl" tells the story of a normal girl from a deaf-mute family chasing her dream. It is a personal growth and a family's growth. The background of the story of this film is gathered in a deaf-mute family in a small seaside town, all of whom rely on fishing for a living. In this family, the heroine Ruby is the only person who has no hearing impairment and can communicate with the outside world normally. She has played the role of a family translator since she was a child, and she is the bridge between the family and the outside world. However, Ruby loves to sing and dreams of becoming a musician. But the family couldn't hear her singing, so they couldn't understand her dream. Ruby overcomes her fears and decides to join the school's choir, and the opportunity lies in front of Ruby. The music teacher of the choir took a fancy to Ruby's musical talent, and started a small kitchen to teach her in private, hoping that she could enter the Pericles Conservatory of Music, but her family limited her way of pursuing her dream, and the conflict broke out. The lack of understanding made Ruby feel depressed, and even made Ruby feel like a weirdo. To a deaf-mute family, Ruby's normality excludes her from the family; to a normal person, the label of "a member of the deaf-mute family" makes Ruby an outlier in the eyes of others. Just like the first time, Ruby's character will show low self-esteem. Ruby finally decides to give up her dream for the sake of her family.
The choir sang as scheduled, and Ruby's family was invited to participate. The film footage gave Ruby's father a single close-up, watching the surrounding environment and people's reactions from the perspective of the deaf and mute. It is a silent world. Although silent, Ruby's father felt that his daughter was loved by people, and he felt that her daughter might sing beautifully. It was also this time that the parents decided to realize Ruby's dream and let her break out of her own world.
A truly good family relationship never binds us like an iron chain, but a harbor based on our mutual dependence and love. This is the relationship between Ruby and her family. At first, they bound each other and depended on each other. After growing up, they became dependent on each other but no longer bound, but became a harbor of love, giving Ruby enough security and encouragement. From this perspective, Ruby is lucky, she has a happy and enlightened family.
Each of us has a "paradox" in our life history, that is, while we are dependent on our family, we also want to escape from it. All the shells used to protect themselves are shackles that need to be broken.
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