Sound and Fury
by Josh Aronson
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Actor: Freeda Cat, Jaime Leigh Allen, Jemma Braham, Ruthanne Gereghty, Scott DavidsonDirector: Josh Aronson
Producer: Josh Aronson
Editor: Ann Collins
Producer: Jackie Roth
Producer: Julie Sacks
Producer: Roger Weisberg
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
DVD Reviews of Sound and Fury
DVD Review: Thought-provoking...no easy answers
Summary: 5 Stars
My deaf daughter introduced me to this movie. Since becoming a fairly proficient signer and involved with the deaf community myself, it was interesting to ponder all the strongly-held arguments among the hearing and deaf family members across three generations concerning the cochlear implant (C.I.). I can see both sides - and there are no easy answers. The documentary did an outstanding job of capturing the issues - and the angst - of feeling strongly about a position that is jeopardizing family unity.
My daughter, who majored in Deaf Ed and later earned a Masters degree, was post-lingually deafened (age 5), so she has good speech. Her hearing loss is at the profound level, only slightly helped with a powerful hearing aid. However, she has decided against being implanted, mainly because she is a single mom, and knows that no surgery is without risk, and doesn't want to take any chances with possible complications. However, this brings up an issue that has not been addressed in the movie or in the reviews (I read them all). More often than not, Deaf parents give birth to hearing children, as did my daughter. It is heart-wrenching for me to see my granddaughter (a precocious 4-year-old) trying to make her mom understand her when she wants to say something she doesn't know how to sign (or there isn't a sign for). After attending day care and now pre-school, my granddaughter is growing up in the hearing world, as is expected, and as her horizons expand, there's more she wants to talk to my daughter about. She is a well-adjusted and very happy child, but I think how much easier it would be if my daughter had an implant (although my daughter is a great lip-reader). So when deciding about getting the C.I. for one's self or their child, it would be wise to consider the ramifications for their their future (or current) offspring as well.
I think my daughter is doing an excellent job raising her child, and I respect her right to refuse the C.I., even though I don't agree with it.
Any way you look at it, IF a child (hearing or Deaf) is already actively involved with family members who are part of the deaf community, they will continue to embrace this culture, as my granddaughter is doing. And being part of both cultures is definitely a win-win situation!
I highly recommend this well-presented and challenging movie.
DVD Review: Sound and Fury
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent educational movie. Great for any one who is studying Audiology or SLP majors. Really dipicts the controversy of people in the deaf communinty and the hearing community. DVD Review: Hard to watch, but very powerful
Summary: 4 Stars
I had to watch this film for my American Sign Language class. Going in, I thought it would be easy to get through. However, the amount of tension and conflict between the family was hard to watch. People from each side of the argument say thing's that they really shouldn't and they are very offensive. The movie is really great, but it will make you uncomfortable. It also made me realize that despite learning sign, I will never be accepted by the deaf community.DVD Review: Cochlear Implants, Hearing Parents and Deaf Children
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent documentary. Some deaf adults believe that it is wrong for a hearing parent to allow their deaf babies to be surgically implanted with a cochlear implant. This movie is about a deaf-hearing family and what happens when cochlear implants enter into the culture and life of a family.
DVD Review: Hear me out . . .
Summary: 4 Stars
This engaging documentary (docudrama comes closer to the right term for it) could be representing its subject fairly, but there are signs of potential bias that should make viewers question it before drawing conclusions about cochlear implants. For one thing, its emphasis is on the drama - the family conflict that erupts over a disagreement about whether a deaf child should be assimilated into the hearing world at the very real risk of being cut off from the deaf community (deaf culture, as its advocates refer to it in the film), including deaf family members. The argument at the center of the debate in the film is whether deafness is in fact a disability or handicap. For a hearing audience, the deeply felt belief among the deaf that it need not be will be an eye-opener. Yet because the arguments for both sides come chiefly from the members of one close-knit family, we don't get a perspective that professionals with some objectivity and wider experience might bring to the subject.
Another factor was the decision to "dub" through voice-overs all the signing by those who are deaf in the film. True, many viewers do not have the patience to read subtitles, but the result is that you don't get the feeling that the deaf in the film are really "speaking for themselves." It begs the question of their being handicapped and subtly undercuts their opinions. Finally, as another reviewer here has pointed out, the film seems too intent on championing implants without fully disclosing the risks, especially among those for whom the procedure has been delayed during a crucial developmental period of language acquisition. Worth seeing for the interesting ethical issues is raises about so-called disabilities.
Description of Sound and Fury
If you could make your deaf child hear, would you? Academy Award-nominated SOUND AND FURY follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technYou might expect that the cochlear implant, a device that can give deaf people the gift of hearing, would be embraced by the deaf community. Josh Aronson's Sound and Fury, a compelling and often devastating documentary, tells a different story. Two brothers, one deaf and one hearing, grapple with a decision concerning their deaf children, and the debate that rages through the extended family turns less on technology and medical concerns than social politics and culture. The deaf parents of a school-age girl fear what the implant would do to her unique identity, while the hearing parents of a toddler see no question at all. Aronson gives all sides their say, but ultimately the increasingly angry arguments reveal prejudices and fears from both sides and split the once-harmonious family, much like they have split hearing and deaf communities across the country. --Sean Axmaker
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