We watched the new Apple TV+ movie "Coda" last evening. While it employed deaf actors to portray deaf characters, the film comes up short for me. But maybe is is my own lack of knowledge about this life as it is presented that I don't get. It is a depiction of a family of four. Three members are deaf and one, a daughter hears and acts as an interpreter for her family members. She sings like a bird and her interplay with them and the rest of the world is the story. I have few hearing impaired people in my life, hence my ignorance as to the nuance of the story.
In music, a coda is the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically from an addition to the basic structure. "the first movement ends with a fortissimo coda" (from the Google dictionary). An ending of one chapter and the beginning of another frames this story. For me the film is good but not great.
Shannon spent the night last night and she is watching guess what and guess what like she does every morning she is with us playing with her UNO cards listening to Alan Jackson and his compadres. Dickman left me a Chinese wooden back scratcher at my door. I cannot imagine why.
Also watched Ted Lasso. It continues to be maybe the most entertaining show on TV. With endearing characters like Ted, his female boss and Roy "fuck off" Kent. Roy needs his own show. In the last episode, Ted seems emotionally damaged, old demons surfacing. We are all worried.
The world is too frustrating to report on. That's it for today
all for now
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