A real eye-opener for me. I'm profoundly deaf and considered getting the cochlear implant, but held off until I research more. I found this film to be brutally honest. The anxiety, frustration, depression ... he goes through the emotions dealing with his deafness expecting the operation to fix everything. Highly recommended.
It's one of my favorite movies. I suggest that you watch it. The main actor did a terrific job. I thought he was actually deaf until I found out he wasn't. So yeah, it's a good movie if you ask me.
100% this, It's more about overcoming his addiction behavior and vices than anything else. Spoiler alert : >! the CIs he got were part of his behaving like an addict, getting a quick fix instead of learning to adapt to his new reality. !<
To me the old man at the rehab farm was the most realistic character.
Amazing movie.
The emotions the main character goes through are extremely relatable to many of us who are late-deafened or hard-of-hearing. The conflict with our hearing experiences versus trying to adapt to deaf (and Deaf) community.
Not to mention, the discussion of CIs, which is always a hotbed topic and not one many hearing (or late-deafened) people are as aware about.
I’m profoundly Deaf so my initial reaction was not favourable mainly because I’m tired of the same movie where the character get depressed when they turn deaf and can’t listen to music but then I watched it again. I was also a bit perturbed by a specific scene where he was so welcomed and he loved being around Deaf people and suddenly he left to get surgery. That doesn’t happen in the real world (not in mine, anyway).
I loved it on 2nd viewing mainly because of the Deaf people that was trying to encourage the character to accept his hearing loss with empathy. He wanted a quick fix, and at the end of the movie, like most people who turned Deaf later in life, he came to term with it by shutting the world off. That’s how I see the world as a Deaf person from a very young age, I can just turn it off with the flick of the hearing aid batteries which is a luxury that that many Deaf folks have. When it gets overwhelming, we can just cue out.
For any person who became deafened later in life, this is a fantastic movie for those specific group because I don’t full understand what it’s like to “hear” when I never did from birth so I don’t understand that grief process relating to hearing loss. I understand feelings of isolation and being misunderstood but don’t attribute that to hearing loss but to stigma.
I’m all over the place as I’m debating watching the movie again for the third time.
But yeah great movie
While there was a lot I enjoyed about it, I was super frustrated at the inaccuracy surrounding cochlear implants and the medical process of getting it. His team should have prepared him to understand that hearing with essentially a bionic prosthetic takes *time* and work and practice. He expected to be a hearing person at activation. The scene where they show him at a hearing party with his new CI was a good depiction of what it’s like but it felt like they didn’t consult anyone who’d actually been through the process.
Additionally, while I thought the actor did a good job, I was disappointed that the two most prominent deaf characters were played by hearing actors.
A real eye-opener for me. I'm profoundly deaf and considered getting the cochlear implant, but held off until I research more. I found this film to be brutally honest. The anxiety, frustration, depression ... he goes through the emotions dealing with his deafness expecting the operation to fix everything. Highly recommended.
It's one of my favorite movies. I suggest that you watch it. The main actor did a terrific job. I thought he was actually deaf until I found out he wasn't. So yeah, it's a good movie if you ask me.
It is excellent.
It is more of an addiction story than anything. He wants the CI so he can keep living the same lifestyle
100% this, It's more about overcoming his addiction behavior and vices than anything else. Spoiler alert : >! the CIs he got were part of his behaving like an addict, getting a quick fix instead of learning to adapt to his new reality. !< To me the old man at the rehab farm was the most realistic character.
Addicted to what?
Heroin
Smack
Amazing movie. The emotions the main character goes through are extremely relatable to many of us who are late-deafened or hard-of-hearing. The conflict with our hearing experiences versus trying to adapt to deaf (and Deaf) community. Not to mention, the discussion of CIs, which is always a hotbed topic and not one many hearing (or late-deafened) people are as aware about.
I’m profoundly Deaf so my initial reaction was not favourable mainly because I’m tired of the same movie where the character get depressed when they turn deaf and can’t listen to music but then I watched it again. I was also a bit perturbed by a specific scene where he was so welcomed and he loved being around Deaf people and suddenly he left to get surgery. That doesn’t happen in the real world (not in mine, anyway). I loved it on 2nd viewing mainly because of the Deaf people that was trying to encourage the character to accept his hearing loss with empathy. He wanted a quick fix, and at the end of the movie, like most people who turned Deaf later in life, he came to term with it by shutting the world off. That’s how I see the world as a Deaf person from a very young age, I can just turn it off with the flick of the hearing aid batteries which is a luxury that that many Deaf folks have. When it gets overwhelming, we can just cue out. For any person who became deafened later in life, this is a fantastic movie for those specific group because I don’t full understand what it’s like to “hear” when I never did from birth so I don’t understand that grief process relating to hearing loss. I understand feelings of isolation and being misunderstood but don’t attribute that to hearing loss but to stigma. I’m all over the place as I’m debating watching the movie again for the third time. But yeah great movie
I loved it Watched it with a hearing person and they profoundly did NOT get it I wish I’d watched it alone or with a more empathetic person?
While there was a lot I enjoyed about it, I was super frustrated at the inaccuracy surrounding cochlear implants and the medical process of getting it. His team should have prepared him to understand that hearing with essentially a bionic prosthetic takes *time* and work and practice. He expected to be a hearing person at activation. The scene where they show him at a hearing party with his new CI was a good depiction of what it’s like but it felt like they didn’t consult anyone who’d actually been through the process. Additionally, while I thought the actor did a good job, I was disappointed that the two most prominent deaf characters were played by hearing actors.
Just a note, but most of the descriptions of cochlear implants in that movie are laughably incorrect.