pabell77

There was a reason this film won the Oscar for Best Picture (as well as several other best film awards from respected groups): it draws the viewer in emotionally to a world about which 98% of us are pretty ignorant and leaves the viewer with both a heart-warmed feeling and an awareness of that world which will effect positive changes in the way most of us deal in the future with persons with significant or complete hearing loss.

This is one of the all-time great cinematic explorations of grief, thanks in the main to a great actor giving the performance of his career, in the context of a very solid plot.

This is an extraordinarily slow-moving film, with very attractive actors, which is largely nonsensical (keyed on a romance for which there is no apparent foundation) and the plot of which is very hard to comprehend.

It is hard to get past the extraordinary amount of the principal character's consistent and foul language at the outset of this film. It gave us a sufficient headache that we stopped the film at home before we could get into the intricacies of the plot