To even begin to understand someone losing their hearing is impossible, it's impossible to imagine the shock, emotions, fear and pure displacement one might/would feel in this situation. I'm not here to compare the loss of hearing to epilepsy, i'm here to appreciate this incredible film as an outside observer of those that are directly affected by the contents of it. The way this film portrays the fragility of day to day life absoloutely amazed me, simply unmatched to anything i've ever watched.
My first seizure was so sudden. I was in the bathroom, and out of no where came this INTENSE ringing and a vivid hallucination of screaming from my (at the time) partner, then blackout. I woke up to my face COVERED in blood and bruises. I don't need to go into more detail, as this is an appreciation for the terrifying, unmatched fear of that elusive first experience of something so life changing, not an epilepsy related post. What I related to was the arc of acceptance, where anger becomes futile, and the reality of the situation is completely out of your control.
As previously mentioned, the depiction of fragility is what brought me here. I don't write about movies, I don't dig deep into movies unless they REALLY entice me in. I have no credibility, i'm simply writing wtf i want to say. It took me a long time and a LOT of different emotions before I came to accept my disability. The way this film portrays that is what resonated with me. I mean this in terms of what I went through, and how it helped me to further understand, accept and appreciate that the way I navigated the situation was valid. It reminded me that no matter what I told myself, or what other people told me, it didn't matter. A thousand avenues of help couldn't do what acceptance did for me. I guess what really made me want to write this post is the way it made me feel about my struggle with a disability. It made me feel like I wasn't alone in the process of acceptance, that in a way, acceptance is the closest you can get to the life you lived before.
There's not really much else to write about in terms of my perspective on this film, i'll leave that to those that have either experienced a loss of hearing themselves or those that have further discussed and analysed this film. As i said, this isn't an 'i CaN ReLaTe' post. This is merely a post about what i PERSONALLY related to in this film. Not just what i thought about the plot, characters or filmmaking that so incredibly formed this piece of work.
Peace and love to all. A relatively short observation but there ya go, take from it what u want
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