Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780767037754 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0767037758 Label: New Video Group Manufacturer: New Video Group Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Video Group Release Date: January 02, 2002 Running Time: 80 minutes Sales Rank: 25771 Studio: New Video Group Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Description: Academy Award(r)-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deafness in three generations, as they confront a technological device that threatens deaf culture - and their bonds with each other. For the Artinians, a surgical ear implant means the choice between life in the mainstream and the longevity of the deaf community, a robust culture in its own right, united by a uniquely visual and artistic language. Six-year-old Heather -- precocious, vivacious, deaf and a candidate for implant surgery -- is caught between her deaf parents and her hearing grandparents, as they argue passionately about her future. The debate is sometimes silent, but by no means quiet. When all is done, Sound and Fury speaks volumes about the choices we make and the battles we fight in order to be heard.
Amazon.com: You 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Sound and Fury
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.
Rating: - Hard to watch, but very powerful
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.
Rating: - Cochlear Implants, Hearing Parents and Deaf Children
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.
Rating: - Hear me out . . .
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Sound and Fury
its a good movie to watch to see what kind of drama a cochlear implant impacts on family life ,even if no one in the family is deaf it still impacts the deaf kid in a negative way anyways. good example of what kinds of debates are going on with the deaf community and hearing community
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