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Lara, A hearing girl with deaf parents, is struggling to be an adult before her time. She is often called upon to do many tasks for her parents that require her to interact with adults. The very nature of this tends to upset the parent-child balance and we see scenes where the petulant child takes a very liberal view of how and what to interpret for her parents. Lara's aunt is, to the girl, the pinnacle of sophistication and independence. The girl is thrilled with the gift of her aunt's old clarinet. He father is less enthusiastic with the his daughter's attachment to his estranged sister. Lara, now 18, has become torn between the desires she has for her own life and the needs of her family.
The more I think about this movie the more it reminds me of `The Little Mermaid'. I'm not trying to be funny, it just kept striking me about the girl who longs to be part of that world' of music and yet is drawn to the world of silence where her parents live.
I should have read the box on this a little more carefully. I didn't realize that it was in German when I rented it. Those guys from Miramax are very clever about not playing up those little points. I wonder if GSL is similar enough to ASL for American signers to follow the plot without the sub-titles.
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leneker 27 July 1999
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