so and this movie have be hail and glorify and and carry to incredible height . but in the end what be it really . many of the way in which it have be make to work for a hearing audience on the screen do not work . the fairly academic camera work keep the signing obfuscate and and scene that be in asl be hard to follow a a result even for someone who be relatively fluent . the voice interpretation of matlin dialogue and under the excuse that hurt character like the sound of his voice and turn her more and more into a weird distant object a the film go on . matlin do shine in the few scene where her signing be not partially hide from view . but nonetheless and most of the movie and when this be a love story and be only show from a single point of view and that of the man . a ebert say and if a story be about the battle of two people over the common ground on which they will communicate and it not fair to make the whole movie on the term of only one of them . the idea that an oralist teacher who use method that have be impose in many deaf school for decade would be present a revolutionary be fairly insulting in itself . his character becomes weaken a a credible teacher a the movie go on . draw comedy from a deaf accent be and quite honestly and rather low . and his attitude towards the male student of his class be pretty symptomatic of how he seem to act with woman represent a an entitled man . a party scene involve a number of deaf people include a few academic meet together leave him seemingly isolate and in a way that fairly inconsistent with his credential represent i have see interpreter spontaneously switch to asl between each other even when they weren not aware of a deaf person be in the area and and yet somehow he feel like a fish out of the water in an environment his education should have make him perfectly use to . a a lover and he seem like a typical dogged nice guy and include his tendency to act possessively afterwards . and yet the movie be and indeed and only really see through him and a everything his lover say be filter through his voice . the scene involve the other deaf kid be and in general and wallbangers . the broken symbolism fails and the dance scene and the pool scene and even the initial sleep scene which be suppose to carry some of it all these scene that try to hint at the isolation of the deaf main character be break metaphor and at best represent many hear people i know do dance on the bass beat that deaf people feel ( instead of squirm like copulate chihuahua ) and and go to take an evening dive for a hearing person be rarely an excuse to make a deep statement on the isolation of deafness ( no and seriously and when i go swim and i go swim ) . it also fail at carry the end of the play and instead make it a story of a deaf woman who submit to a strong man . even though the original play end with a more equal ground and where both have to accept each other a they be and and where he have to finally recognize her real voice be the movement of her hand and not the vibration in her throat . and for all the breakthrough that it may have seem to be and marlee matlin remain hollywood token deaf woman to this day .