 "Excellent Service... Thank You! Maurice "Mo" Murray" | 2010-03-02 |
| - Reviewed By mo murray from Charleston, South Carolina |
Great Movie and excellent delivery of the DVD. Thanks... Mo
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| "Please read this note from deaf reviewer!" | 2010-01-24 |
| - Reviewed By A.Jones from Ocean Springs, Ms. USA |
I do love this movie million times!!!! It shows the similar situation Marlee and I are going through. Just like Helen Keller was too, I praise to God every day for being in life showering His glory!
You gotta understand one thing that William Hurt is extermly WRONG when he don't keep his promise about not asking her to speaking. My (deaf) teacher used telling me as a child , "If you don't want to speak, then don't let anybody force you!" Why should I let them if you don't want for them telling you what do with your life? Not even your mom and dad.... I will tell you a true story :when I had a great speech teacher I been with for many years but I had not get a least or nope of speaking at all, but I know hard-hearing student whom successfully did. I was envinious a lil' and asked my teacher why he got it but not me? She said "I watched you all this years but speeching is not your thing, playing is" What did she meant? In other words, she said it meant It was not really what I want but my parents asked for it. You just can't lock away in the room and make a deaf kid learn speaking for hours/years , it wont work (trust me) . It won't work if you lecture. They has to want it so they can put in hard working .
It came to me naturally when I said the first word "mom" , "dad" and "I LOVE YOU". If you make a child while they doesn't want then they will walk away like Marlee did in movie. I did the same , but I was like yawning and distracted playing with something while my speech teacher taught. |
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 "Go see the play" | 2010-01-05 |
| - Reviewed By apollo13ps from Minneapolis |
| This is nothing like the play. The dialog in the play is so much more fun and impactful. Granted there is no pool scene in the play but it has heart. This movie is nothing like the play. They should have given it another name. I hope that someday they make a movie of Mark Medoff's play. I just found out he was partly responsible for this movie. Well, it seems to me he left out all of his funny and interesting dialog from the play. I just rewatched it hoping that the 20 years distance from when I saw the play would make this more interesting. Alas, it did not. |
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| "purchased DVD" | 2009-08-24 |
| - Reviewed By Jeanie Fifer from Laguna Niguel, CA |
| I was very pleased with this purchase. Very fast service, product in excellent condition. I would use this seller again. |
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| "Remarkable" | 2008-10-14 |
| - Reviewed By Saviour Gauci from L/o Rabat Malta |
Children of a Lesser God. Directed by Randa Haines
A very interesting study of Mute and deaf people. Rand Haines (Antwone Fisher) Directed this film where we encounter the problems of these unfortunate brothers and sisters finding themselves as they start growing and could not communicate. James Leeds (William Hurt) a teacher with unconventional approach way of teaching was warned by the school administration . John went his way and done his best that his students can communicate better in life with success. In his way came a young beauty by the name of Sarah, a very intelligent 25 year old mature woman who trusted no body. After graduation she decided to remain at the facility as a cleaner. Sarah ( Marlee Matlin - mute and deaf herself) abandoned by her mother for being deaf and mute because she could never learn to communicate with her, was in a way a loner, even sexually molested when she was a teenager. James fell in love with her and the two stuck together until....
A very great film. It can be easily watched a second or a third time, good photography, setting etc.
Marlee Matlin received an Oscar for her performance in Children of a Lesser God.
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 "A film with a lesser effect..." | 2008-08-28 |
| - Reviewed By Andrew Ellington from Mulholland Drive |
I see a lot of potential when I think back over the film that was `Children of a Lesser God'. Now, I have not seen the play but I hear that it is much harsher, much more emotionally gut punching if you will. When I watched `Children of a Lesser God' I expected to get that, that warm feeling of unease in my core, the feeling that everything is not as it should be but instead I got a much softer and much more refined experience. I'm not saying that a sweet and effective love story is a bad thing, but aside from the major plot point regarding Sarah Norman's hearing disability the film is your generic love story with nothing really to distinguish it from every other love story out there.
Boy meets girl; boy likes girl; girl is standoffish; girl falls for guy; guy and girl have fight; boy and girl make up.
I wish I could say that there was more to it than that.
That isn't to say that as a love story it doesn't work well, for the wonderful performances by the two leads help elevate the film and carry it into our hearts; I just can't help myself from thinking that it could have been so much more. I really relish in films that sink into the grit and rawness of a situation, but aside from one beautifully acted scene of aggression and emotional frustration the film is rather cheery and light; and to me that takes away from the point of the film.
The film follows James Leeds, a teacher in a school for the deaf who pushes his students to learn to speak, as he falls in love with a pupil who decided to stay at the school and work as apposed to venturing out on her own. She is calloused towards him and his attempts to speak to her rather than sign, taking it as an insult to her disability, but she soon warms to him and they start a love affair that tests their relationship in ways they never knew possible. Leeds ideas conflict with Sarah's morals and scar her emotionally, but his persistence in the preservation of their relationship helps keep them together.
I definitely feel as though the acting here is the saving grace, for both William Hurt and Marlee Matlin work hard to elevate the clichéd material they are given. Much has been made over Marlee's Oscar win being sentimental and undeserved, but the fact of the matter is that her performance is very strong despite her material. William Hurt is maybe even stronger, for he doesn't have a gimmick to work with and yet still manages to crawl inside his character. I am kind of stunned that Piper Laurie received an Oscar nomination when her performance is not that noteworthy, but it isn't bad either so I can't be too upset over it. At least she didn't win.
In the end `Children of a Lesser God' is a fine film, but it is not what it could have been. It manages to make you care about the characters but it fails to make you care about the important lessons with regard to disability that the film claims to center around. The film is too concerned with the love affair to make the disability anything more than a side-point. |
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