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The most tender movie on the billboard is up for several Oscars, exhibiting fundamental acting work. A family of deaf mutes captivates the public
The drought of ideas leads American cinema to continue cultivating the productive art of the remake in search of the box office, updating successes of other cinematographies. ‘CODA: The sounds of silence’ is part of ‘La familia Bélier’, a blockbuster of French origin that captivated the staff in 2014 without competing for as many possible awards as the premiere at hand, being undoubtedly superior and less conventional. This adaptation, written and directed by Siân Heder (‘Talludah’), triumphed at Sundance, taking several well-founded awards. In turn, it opts for the Oscars for best film, adapted screenplay and supporting actor. Its optimistic spirit and condition of a feel-good movie, in a dark time for humanity, undoubtedly help its excellent journey with the complicity of its potential audience. It excites in its final stretch, using all the mechanisms imaginable for tearing, worn maneuvers in the great dramas made in the USA. Accepting its commercial intentions, the film works like a charm, mainly because of its cast, where the proposal carries all the weight.
‘CODA’, an acronym in English for Child of Deaf Adults, read daughter of deaf adults, presents a teenager with problems in high school who is the only member who can hear and speak within a family of deaf and dumb. She is the stranger in her home, the only listener. Suffocated by the dependency that her relatives place on her shoulders, outside the home she also feels different and finds a way out of her anguish by signing up for a singing class. While in the French film the protagonists work on a farm, the renewed version takes the action to a fishing village. The Oscar winner Marlee Matlin (‘Children of a lesser god’), Ruby Rossi, Daniel Durant (‘Seattle Road’), Troy Kotsur (‘Sue Thomas, the eye of the FBI’) and Eugenio Derbez (‘Dora and the lost city’ ) accompany Emilia Jones. The protagonist of the series ‘Locke & Key’ puts herself in the shoes of a hard-working and generous young woman who is torn between her passion for music and the possibility of having to leave her parents and brother to pursue a university career related to her talent, which, paradoxically, their relatives cannot enjoy.
The most remarkable thing about ‘CODA’ is its cast, an endearing family that communicates with harmony and a sense of humor. Some scenes are memorable at the beginning of the story, too syrupy in its final stretch. Kotsur, nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, outlines a character that brings together the essence of a film with a message, well narrated and bright, with the ability to dazzle the general public. His fellow travelers within the frame do not fall short. They interact with a magic that its director has been able to capture on camera. The family is the main theme of a friendly bet that does not intend to break schemes and opts for the heart regardless of its originality.