A Nutshell Review: Hear Me
The gimmick in the film that allows it to transcend the usual
teenybopper puppy love stories filled with an eye-candy cast, is
undoubtedly the use of the non-verbal medium of sign language in a
film. I don’t recall watching any recent contemporary film where
the lead characters engage in sign for the most parts of the story,
leaving us the audience relying very much on the subtitles (both
English and Mandarin with subtle differences) to tide us through.
It’s a novelty factor, though one that works, and hopefully can
help to garner interest such that it shouldn’t been seen as a
“language” of exclusivity because of impairment, but one which is
actually very beautiful with its fluid motion, and as the film
suggests, with a certain degree of creative improvisation (hey, so
long as you’re understood, right?)
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