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I really, really, really need a sequel, like, right now.
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Hello and welcome back to the channel.
I am introducing a new series called Film Fridays,
and basically what I'm doing with this is I'm going to watch a movie
that is...it revolves itself around a deaf character, a disabled character,
and eventually I want to move on to, like, mental health or eating disorders
or whatever things that I can relate to.
Right now, my goal is to have it happen every other Friday,
so, like, two Fridays a month,
but sometimes, you know, I may run out of a movie or something,
so, we'll see how it goes but right now I do have a few planned.
They won't just be movies, I think.
I do also have a few TV shows in mind, so, yeah.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy this series
and you might notice by the title or the thumbnail,
we're going to talk about A Quiet Place,
which has been a long time coming but I just now saw it.
A Quiet Place is about a family who... you have...how many were there?
Mom, dad, two boys and one girl, so it was a family of five,
soon to be a family of four, and all but one, their teenage daughter, are hearing.
And basically you've got monsters that are blind
and they react to sound, so you gotta be very, very, very quiet.
And, yes, this is very similar to a novel called The Silence, which they were both made up
and written and whatever at the exact same time and people are trying to compare them.
The difference is one has proper deaf representation and the other one will not,
but, when that comes out, we'll get more into detail about that.
So, I did not see this movie when it first came out
because, apparently, it wasn't very accessible in theaters?
I swear I saw some people not have proper access
when they were watching it with the CaptiView.
I can't remember if it was, like, ASL wasn't captioned
or the speaking parts weren't captioned,
and also, when you watch the movie, I don't think...
I'm trying to remember exactly, not all the ASL is really shown properly
and frames are just something that really, really happens often
with shows that have sign language in them, or movies, as well.
You have seen it with this, with Switched at Birth and a whole lot of other things.
So, let's talk about the Quiet Place, A Quiet Place.
So, like I mentioned, proper deaf representation and ASL.
I could understand Millicent,
who, by the way, is the deaf actor in the movie, sorry, forgot to mention that.
Woo, went by.
The father, the mother and the little brother, I could understand them pretty well.
I mean, when people ask me, "Hey, how was the ASL in this?"
I'm not the person to ask.
I'm not fluent.
I didn't grow up with it.
But I can understand what was going on in the movie
when they signed without all the captions available.
One scene in particular that got me so hard and I almost screamed in the plane,
because I watched it for the first time on the plane,
at one point in the movie...
You know, they're not allowed to have things that make noise.
They're not allowed to make noise and they're not allowed to have things that make noise.
And the youngest kid really wanted a toy rocket
and it would have batteries inside and, when it was on, it would make noises
and it would light up, and so he wanted it but his parents took it away because it was a risk.
But the thing was, Millicent's character,
when the parents left and the other brother left,
she looks at her youngest brother and she gives him the toy
but she gives it to him without batteries, and then she walks away.
And what happens is, after she walks away,
the little boy takes the batteries and you know what's going to happen,
it's the very, very beginning, before the opening credits roll, it's so sad.
Basically, you have the parents and the oldest son is being helped because he's sick
and that's why they were out there getting medicine.
Then you had Millicent's character, then you had the little boy.
Millicent is deaf.
What is her name in the show, in the movie?
Regan, I think it's Regan. Reagan? Regan.
She has a cochlear implant but I don't think she actually has it on,
I don't think she's wearing it because that's a whole thing that happens later.
Eventually, you know, they're walking back to their home
and, all of a sudden, you can hear noises from a toy.
The father stops.
He's freaking out.
His facial expression is just panic.
He turns around.
Everybody else is turning around.
And then Regan realises something is going on, because, again, she can't hear it.
And then, when she turns around, she starts then the father is starting to run
towards the little boy because he has the toy rocket
and he put the batteries inside and it's basically making a whole bunch of noise,
and the father knows that is going to attract the monsters
and something bad is going to happen if they don't get to him in time and turn it off.
Long story short, just before the father would've been able to reach the little boy,
the monster comes and the boy is dead.
So, what comes into play
is that, what would've happened if, one, Regan was hearing,
what if she was wearing her cochlear implant that she refuses to wear
because she's convinced that it doesn't work and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's one question to ask.
The other maybe solution would've been to, I think, maybe should've double-checked,
had the little boy out in front of her, because, one, he is the youngest.
He is going to be the most ignorant to what is going on
because he looked to be about four years old, maybe,
so he doesn't really understand what's going on, he's just a child.
So, yeah, what would've been helpful is that the little boy should've been in front of her
and she would've been able to double-check if the batteries were not with him.
So, that's a very, very sad moment.
And that makes her feel incredibly guilty for the rest of the movie
and she's very, very convinced that her father absolutely does not like her,
and she thinks that it's all her fault and it just becomes so sad
'cause you don't see a whole lot of interaction with them,
and, if he's going to go out to go hunt for fish or whatever, he takes the oldest son,
even though there are times when she wants to go with him but he's basically saying no
because she's deaf and she's not gonna be able to hear what's going on.
And then we get to the end of the movie when...
This made me cry on the plane.
But they were being attacked by the monsters, Regan and her brother.
He, the father, sacrifices himself, otherwise the monster was gonna kill them,
because the monster was going after them in the truck that they were hiding in.
And right before he sacrifices himself,
he tells her that he loves her and that she's not to blame, it's not her fault,
and I wanted to cry so badly, and also there were times when he would try to convince her
to wear the cochlear implant and she refused, saying that it wasn't gonna work, etc, etc.
But there are times when she does wear the cochlear implant in the movie.
I don't call cochlear implants miracle products.
They are not.
They will not magically make you hearing.
In fact, getting a cochlear implant destroys any hearing you've ever had left,
but dare I say that, in this movie,
in this case, in this scenario, it kept her alive, therefore being sort of a miracle product.
But don't get it twisted because this is not what happens in real life
and somebody...well, I already knew this is not what happens in real life
but somebody, who is also a cochlear implant user,
messaged me on Twitter, no, on Instagram,
and gave me a little more background information
because it just needed to be told
so that people, hearing people that were watching this
that have no idea how CIs work, they needed to know that it doesn't work like this.
But, when Regan would wear the cochlear implant,
there were times when she would be by herself.
This was for a percentage of the movie.
She was by herself and, you know, trying to hide from these things,
and she would be by herself in the middle of the corn field or whatever,
and there would be a monster sneaking up behind her.
She's obviously not going to know,
she's not going to hear it, and it's too dark, so it's not like you're gonna see...
It's not like you're going to see any shadows or anything.
But the cochlear implant would make feedback, which was just something
that the monsters hated and would make them go away because it was too painful for them.
And it saved her life two or three times,
once while she was by herself in the field and again when she was...
when she and her brother were in this thing, I don't know what it was called,
but they got stuck in something and the metal door was hanging off and it fell.
The monsters heard it because it made a very loud bang.
The monster was coming for them.
And it was so close to killing them but the implant reacted,
gave off a whole bunch of feedback and the monster didn't like it and it ran off.
And at the end of the movie, that's when they realise,
you know, the cochlear implant is the miracle product in this movie
and all they would have to do,
at least for the last two minutes of the movie that you see,
take the cochlear implant, have the microphone, put it next to each other
and it just...extreme, loud feedback, that's when the movie ends, so...
But going back to what I said, it's not realistic and the one thing that cochlear implant...
or the one thing that hearing people need to understand
is, well, let's just read the message that I got, shall we,
because I want to get this 100% right
and the way to do that is to get the information from somebody who has these things.
So, they said that it was impossible for a cochlear implant to make audible noise,
meaning the feedback that was happening.
Hearing aids will create feedback, by the way.
If you watch my 'Wearing a Hearing Aid for the First Time' video,
you hear the feedback that happens because I didn't have it in all the way.
Cochlear implants don't do that.
So, the external processor isn't a microphone.
It doesn't make noises like hearing aids.
The external processor never makes a noise
and Jim character...Jim's character adding crap to it would do literally nothing.
In order to do anything to the external processor, you have to hook it up
to a specific program on a computer and the programs may be different for each brand.
The external processor doesn't even get audio feedback.
Some brands have a separate mini-computer thing,
I can't remember what it's called,
that hearing parents can connect...that hearing parents can connect the processor to
to see if it works but it's not noise, it's just a computer telling you if it's working.
There is nothing even on the external processor that makes noise.
So, there you go.
So, the reason why they may have gone through with this
is just because Millicent herself, the actor herself, has a cochlear implant,
so, to them, it may have just made more sense to just go with that.
So, in a way, I get it, but, at the end of the day,
it's important to know that that's just not how it works in real life.
So, if this somehow became a real-life scenario,
don't try that because it's not gonna work.
Maybe use a hearing aid but a cochlear implant is not gonna work,
so don't implant your child, thinking that that's how it's gonna be.
Overall, it's a movie that I really, really enjoyed
and I'm very excited for the sequel to come out
and The Silence is going to come out eventually and it's gonna be comparable...
Comparable? Comparable to A Quiet Place
and the deaf community is gonna have a back and forth about it.
I read The Silence novel.
I read it a long time ago and I actually really enjoyed the novel,
so I am kind of excited to see how the movie pans out,
but I know already that my thoughts are gonna kind of be,
"Mm, this is kind of inauthentic
"because the girl who plays Sabrina in the new Sabrina is playing the deaf girl."
Again, different video for a different time but that's kind of where we're at now.
But now it's time for you to tell me what you thought about the movie.
Again, overall, I enjoyed it very much,
although I do wish that we had more of a backstory between the father and Regan
because it seems like there was just more that needed to be told.
You didn't really get a whole lot.
Some things were just missing but, overall, I didn't hate it.
And if you've got a movie that you want me to watch, or a show that you want me to watch,
that has a deaf or disabled character, let me know in the comments.
I'm looking for suggestions because I want to keep this series going
but I already have a few in mind.
We will have Hush, we will have Switched at Birth,
and there's a couple of Asian stuff that I want to watch like...
I've already seen Orange Days and Hear Me, so we'll talk about that.
As always, I very much appreciate you watching and I'll see you later. Bye.
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