Sound and Fury is a documentary film released in 2000 about two American families immersed in Deaf culture and their conflict over whether or not to give their children cochlear implants, surgically implanted devices that may improve their ability to hear but may threaten their way of life. The film was nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award.

Synopsis

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The film follows an extended family with deafness through three generations over a year and a half, focussing on two brothers — Peter, who is deaf and Chris who is hearing — and their wives and their children. Peter and Nita Artinian (who is also deaf) have a deaf child aged 7, Heather, who tells her parents that she would like to get a cochlear implant. Nita and Peter, who are happy and proud to be deaf, are worried that Heather will lose her positive deaf identity and adopt hearing culture's values about what is normal, and lose her connection to American Sign Language and Deaf culture. Peter is especially wary due to his own painful and unseccessful experience of an oral education. The family conflict escalates when Chris and his wife (who is also hearing) learn that their newborn child is deaf and decide to implant him, and the two families struggle with dramatically different choices about how to raise their deaf children.

6 years later

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In "6 Years later", the girl is now 12 years old, and herself, her 2 Deaf siblings, her mother and members of her extended Deaf family have all opted for the implant device. The article summarizing the documentary's events describes her as having clear speech, living in a 'mainstreamed' world, interacting with hearing people, and possessing high grades in school. These are goals lauded by the oralist movement. The girl appears to have achieved success by the oralist movement's definition in spite of living in an environement oralist educators strive to avoid as best as possible: her family is all Deaf, she attended Deaf schools and interacted primarily in the Deaf subculture, and had little to no intelligible speech in the first documentary. She was able to possess a Deaf heritage, use ASL as a primary language, with little spoken language exposure or stimulation until she was implanted at 9, and still, she succeeded orally.

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The Sound Bite and the Fury #onewordtoomany
gypsy18 (Kathie Hagen) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:56:05 -0000
The Sound Bite and the Fury #onewordtoomany
@adayinthelyfe No it's pseudo-intellectual psychobabble b.s. which is all sound and fury signifying boring.
Fozziebare (Jason Nelson) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:35:15 -0000
@adayinthelyfe No it's pseudo-intellectual psychobabble b.s. which is all sound and fury signifying boring.
POEM line(2) Soon I am engulfed in fury and sound. [from book Diana's rdg in "Light"]
lisakn2n (Lisa K.) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:42:42 -0000
POEM line(2) Soon I am engulfed in fury and sound. [from book Diana's rdg in "Light"]
2 people have asked if they could have one of the two coffee cups on the table, i've gotten through 4 pages of the sound and the fury
mnothum (Mark Nothum) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:40:47 -0000
2 people have asked if they could have one of the two coffee cups on the table, i've gotten through 4 pages of the sound and the fury
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. -MacBeth
Shelburrrs (Shelbie Nicholes) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:32:12 -0000
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. -MacBeth

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