It’s a flawed triumph.
And yet. This is also a movie that is 40 percent in American Sign Language. It’s buoyed by the talent of a predominantly deaf cast. The older brother of the family, Leo , actively pushes back against his parents’ reliance on his sister Ruby as family interpreter, and ultimately it’s’s shortcomings are less an indictment of the film itself and more a reminder of how desperately we need more deaf representation on-screen and especially behind the scenes.
The decision to screen the film in theaters with open captions—captions that are on-screen for all, rather than requiring an additional step to view them—was also unique. These may seem like little things to a hearing viewer, but to me, having sat through a lot of films where “cripped-up” hearing people sign badly, or having arrived at the movie theater only to be told that someone forgot to charge the caption goggles so I have to come back some other time, they are achievements.
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