CODA - American Romance

Hailee 2022-04-13 09:01:07

"coda", a listening girl, is an American movie. If it were put in China, the film would focus on the fact that deaf and mute parents gradually lived a good life through the government's welfare treatment and the care of the "village secretary". In Europe, the film will become a story about the obstacles encountered by a high school student couple and their complicated inner life. If this is a Korean film, it will definitely focus on the contradiction between the deaf-mute family and the government, thus deeply reflecting the social inequality. If it is a Japanese movie, it must be a tragic story of deaf and dumb people struggling on the edge of society. However, this is a typical American movie. Just focus on a girl's mental journey. Whether it is family, classmates, or studies, difficulties are solved together, everything is so natural. The ideal is that the heroine doesn't have to care about the family that needs her, doesn't have to worry about long-distance relationships, and doesn't have to worry about her unknown future. Everything will be fine, and everything will be fine - maybe this is the optimism and self-confidence of American filmmakers. Still 5 stars, after all, life is not a movie, and a movie is not life. As an idealistic film, I feel good after watching it, and the laughs are not bad. It has really done well enough. Overall, the flaws do not hide the truth, the heroine deserves an Oscar queen (starting to poison milk)

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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]