This was a little odd and it seemed choppy, but I think, and it wasn't until near the end, this I finally got the point of this.
It really wasn't really about Amari or Teddy as much as it was about this Maryland School for the deaf football team and it's long winning streak and what the future may hold for these young Deaf men and women as they leave a supportive environment and go into the hearing world.
So if you look at it from the point of view that, this is just a little microcosm, a small slice of life view of this school for the Deaf, Deaf teenagers, Deaf culture, and the lives of just want a few Deaf kids and what was going on with their lives in this moment in time, then I can understand better what the film was going for. We really didn't get a lot about the child Teddy who was bullied and hearing school and ended up taking his life. I think if we learned a little bit more about him at the beginning and then we segued into the story of the school for the deaf with Amari as the focus, the film with have come across more coherent.
It was a bit annoying to not be able to turn off the captions. I know sign language and while I always watch with captions on it's distracting when I'm trying to watch people signing.
It really wasn't really about Amari or Teddy as much as it was about this Maryland School for the deaf football team and it's long winning streak and what the future may hold for these young Deaf men and women as they leave a supportive environment and go into the hearing world.
So if you look at it from the point of view that, this is just a little microcosm, a small slice of life view of this school for the Deaf, Deaf teenagers, Deaf culture, and the lives of just want a few Deaf kids and what was going on with their lives in this moment in time, then I can understand better what the film was going for. We really didn't get a lot about the child Teddy who was bullied and hearing school and ended up taking his life. I think if we learned a little bit more about him at the beginning and then we segued into the story of the school for the deaf with Amari as the focus, the film with have come across more coherent.
It was a bit annoying to not be able to turn off the captions. I know sign language and while I always watch with captions on it's distracting when I'm trying to watch people signing.