listening girl

Karson 2022-04-22 07:01:59

The girl Ruby is the only normal person in a deaf-mute family. Her father, mother and brother are all deaf and mute. The English name of the film, CODA, is the abbreviation for the "children of the hearing-impaired". As a result, from childhood to adulthood, Ruby naturally became a free translator and a bridge between her relatives and the outside world. The special circumstances of Ruby's family caused her to be pointed and ridiculed from time to time in middle school. Ruby's "special" relative to her family also caused friction between them from time to time, but the days were still the innocent fun of the girl and the optimistic laughter of the family. The music passed quickly, until the gift of music could give Ruby two gifts, which also brought a real conflict - the music teacher noticed Ruby's talent and ability, and proposed to help her apply for the music school, while in the chorus program. During the rehearsal, Ruby and the boy she likes also discover each other and get closer... Ruby needs to balance her energy between the small stove opened by her teacher and the translation needs of her family to develop a fishing business, and also to deal with the needs of her family to the boy The shock... When a completely different, isolated, self-contained world suddenly opens outward, so-called small changes will also bring earth-shaking upheaval to the family, and the pre-teen Ruby is the only one. The buffer zone where shocks converge. The film rejects this supposed "poetic" with plain description. In a chorus performance scene that other films usually deal with as a climax, the film switches to the silent world. Ruby and the boys sang on the stage, and the parents in the audience could not hear anything. They anxiously "looked around", observed the expressions and reactions of other audience members, and after confirming that the performance was a success, they pretended to stand up slack. Applause to Ruby.

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Extended Reading
  • Armando 2022-04-20 09:02:57

    For this kind of movie, if you don't like the music, it's hard to watch. . .

  • Alysa 2022-04-19 09:03:18

    Underneath the seemingly plain story, there are very thick emotions. When the emotion reaches a certain thickness, it will tear people's lacrimal glands.

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]