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Summary: Wonderful Inspirational Story
Review: "Beyond Silence" is one of the best films I have seen in years! It is the story of a young girl, the daughter of deaf parents, who is looking for her place in the world. A common plot for movies -- but this film does not go for hollow sentimentality or cliches. The characters are complex, and the plot has some surprising twists. There are no villains, no overly dramatic emotional scenes; everything is realistically portrayed. The ending is satisfying, and like life, not all questions are answered. American film could learn a lot from this, especially in terms of eliciting real emotional responses from an audience.
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Summary: Wonderful Inspirational Story
Review: "Beyond Silence" is one of the best films I have seen in years! It is the story of a young girl, the daughter of deaf parents, who is looking for her place in the world. A common plot for movies -- but this film does not go for hollow sentimentality or cliches. The characters are complex, and the plot has some surprising twists. There are no villains, no overly dramatic emotional scenes; everything is realistically portrayed. The ending is satisfying, and like life, not all questions are answered. American film could learn a lot from this, especially in terms of eliciting real emotional responses from an audience.
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Summary: Wonderful Inspirational Story
Review: "Beyond Silence" is one of the best films I have seen in years! It is the story of a young girl, the daughter of deaf parents, who is looking for her place in the world. A common plot for movies -- but this film does not go for hollow sentimentality or cliches. The characters are complex, and the plot has some surprising twists. There are no villains, no overly dramatic emotional scenes; everything is realistically portrayed. The ending is satisfying, and like life, not all questions are answered. American film could learn a lot from this, especially in terms of eliciting real emotional responses from an audience.
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Summary: Great Soundtrack
Review: Although I only saw the movie once, I watched the introduction over and over and over again because the soundtrack is so beautiful. That first song in the movie (Ice Dance) makes it worth renting. The whole entirety of the movie itself is very well done, but that first scene is absolutely beautiful, and for that reason, I would recommend this movie to anyone with a love for classical music, especially piano.
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Summary: One of the most sensitive films I have ever seen
Review: An amazing film. It's not a funny film and the lesson is not"If you've got a gift use it" but something much deeper thanthat. Little Lara with her great play with her parents, translating their sign language, managing with them everyday, especially with her father's relations with her hearing aunt (his sister), who tries to influence her, who pushes her into the world of music, clarinet that she plays Jewish happy music (kleizmer), a world her parents can not understand, but learn to accept.
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Summary: It's a wonderful movie, why isn't it on DVD . . ..
Review: I am studying the german language and its wonderful when I find a movie in german, that was so good! Yeah, most german movies i have seen so far are mostly for the comedy aspect in the way their characters interact, i find that along with the drama that occured w/ the main character, this is a very inspring film! The main character grew up before your eyes, amazing you how she delt with her every-day situations, translating for her parents stuff on the television and what her peers and teachers what they wanted to say to her parents. Of course, being a little girl, the humor is when she doesn't quite translate it word for word. This movie has inspired me to be more serious to my language study. I might want to even to expand to ASL. All that I know is that this movie was good, and is viewable by everyone. There is no bad scenes only inspiring ones! This which leads to my second question, why isn't this movie avalible on DVD yet? This movie, if they did a little more advertising, would be a summer DVD sale hit! Trust my word on it. Hey, um DVD companies, please put this on dvd sooooooon! If you want to contact me, my e-mail is xena03@home.com, and thats all i have to say :0)
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Summary: It's a wonderful movie, why isn't it on DVD . . ..
Review: I am studying the german language and its wonderful when I find a movie in german, that was so good! Yeah, most german movies i have seen so far are mostly for the comedy aspect in the way their characters interact, i find that along with the drama that occured w/ the main character, this is a very inspring film! The main character grew up before your eyes, amazing you how she delt with her every-day situations, translating for her parents stuff on the television and what her peers and teachers what they wanted to say to her parents. Of course, being a little girl, the humor is when she doesn't quite translate it word for word. This movie has inspired me to be more serious to my language study. I might want to even to expand to ASL. All that I know is that this movie was good, and is viewable by everyone. There is no bad scenes only inspiring ones! This which leads to my second question, why isn't this movie avalible on DVD yet? This movie, if they did a little more advertising, would be a summer DVD sale hit! Trust my word on it. Hey, um DVD companies, please put this on dvd sooooooon! If you want to contact me, my e-mail is xena03@home.com, and thats all i have to say :0)
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Summary: Representation of Pure Silence
Review: I have no idea that Germany actually made movies. Anyways, here's a little girl named Laura, and her two hearing impaired parents, Martin and Kai. Laura gets a clarinet from her aunt on Christmas. Martin doesn't approve, but Laura learns anyways. She gets REAL good at it, even though she's only 8 maybe? We find her at a concert a year later, and the scene magically changes from Laura being a little girl, to being a grown up woman. The baby that we see earlier (cute part when she blows the clarinet in her ear) is about 9. Her aunt Clarrisa tells her of a school that Laura could go to learn the Clarinet, but personally, I don't see why she needs to go. The big audtition comes up, along with a sad moment that we learn that, while riding a bike, Kai was hit by a car or something. She dies, and Uncle Gregor has the sad part to tell her. Marie (her little sister) rides all the way to Laura, to bring her back. Clarrisa takes her home, and Laura meets a guy named Tom. As we get torwards the end, Tom leaves and Laura goes to the audition. Martin walks in, and explains that he'll try to 'understand' what music is. It's a freeze frame to a beautiful ending.
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Summary: Reaction to "Representation of Pure Silence"
Review: I haven't seen this film yet, was interested because of the director's excellent recent film Nowhere in Africa, and came to Amazon to check it out. I wish Amazon would remove "reviews" from people who feel a review consists of revealing the entire plot--such as the author of "Representation of Pure Silence" (who did not realize Germany even makes films?!). I stopped reading when I realized where the review was headed--too late, unfortunately, to keep from spoiling some of the pleasure I'm sure I'd have watching this film.
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Summary: This could have been a great film...
Review: I really mean it, but the characters in this film were too dark and foreboding. This film is really depressing and the characters really let their emotions flare up. Everyone treats each other terribly until they realize it. Skip this one for something else.
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