Dear Hallmark Hall of Fame,
If you are going to produce a movie about deafness, Deaf Culture, and cochlear implants, please include all of the signing with the frame!
It’s so frustrating to be following along with the signing and then have it cut to someone’s reaction while the other person is still signing. Especially during a conversation involving all deaf people.
Once again, deaf and hard of hearing folks will have to watch a movie about their culture, filmed by hearing people, without respect for their culture. They have to access it through written English (closed captioning).
What a disappointment.
The play is better, anyway (I saw it at Mixed Blood a few years ago).
April 21st, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I thought it was pretty awful overall. Jeff Daniels’s signing was better than I expected, but the plot was dismal. Since when does Shoshannah Stern only play oralists? She did that on Cold Case too. Yuckers.
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April 22nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Did you by chance see Love Person at the Mixed Blood?
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Sassy! reply on April 22, 2008:
I wanted to, but missed it. :/