What I want to say about "Listening Girl"~

Kasey 2022-09-05 19:35:08

This movie is particularly warm, and after watching it, there is a warm current lingering in my heart. It has no ups and downs plots, no full-fledged characters, and no tense atmosphere. It just describes the story of a normal girl from a deaf-mute family who balances family and dreams. I heard that this movie makes you cry, but after watching it, I found that it is not easy to make people cry because of sadness as I imagined, but a subtle moving, one or two details that resonate with the audience. A particularly impressive episode was the chorus performance of Ruby and the male lead. The camera swept across the audience, some people shook their bodies with the melody, some listened carefully with smiles in their eyes, some were wiping tears, some were surprised, and some were intoxicated, but there was nothing in the film. sound. This shot suddenly shortened the distance between the audience and the deaf-mute, and there was a sense of sudden realization and surprise - it turns out that the world of the deaf-mute is like this. Also, the scene where Ruby sees the Berkeley interview brought tears to my eyes. When Ruby sang for the first time, she didn't have strong emotions. When she sang it for the second time, she saw her father, mother and brother sitting on the second floor watching her. She couldn't help but sign language, trying to convey the emotion of the song. I expressed my emotions to my family. At this time, I saw the light in Ruby's eyes, full of confidence and happiness. I was able to chase my dreams and have the support of my family. How happy I am.

It is not easy for us now to always feel happy and happy since adulthood. A large part of the reason is that we ignore what we have now and want more. Bai Juyi once wrote, "April in the world is exhausted, and peach blossoms in mountain temples begin to bloom. I never know where to go for spring. I don't know where to turn." You think it is difficult to obtain happiness, but you ignore that happiness is by your side.

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

    There was "Miracle Boy" before, and "Listening Girl" after. This kind of uninspired American chicken soup movie is too long when I watch it at 1.5x speed. Every plot is deliberate. Under such a script, Replacing the protagonist's musical dream with painting and writing, and the deaf-mute family with blind and disabled people are all completely established. Anyway, here, you are the greatest if you have a dream, and a dream is amazing.

  • Melody 2022-04-20 09:02:57

    The best crying movie this year is not the heroine's tangle of burdening the family or letting herself fly, but the more delicate observation habits, more straightforward communication methods, and more intense feelings between family members formed under the hearing impairment. The emotional expression helped them bridge the intergenerational gap. The heroine was so likable that even the "singing street" boy was bleak under her bright performance.

CODA quotes

  • Frank Rossi: Go.

  • 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?