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Sound & Fury (DVD)

Chris Artinian (actor), Nita Artinian (actor) and Josh Aronson (director)
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Review

Los Angeles Times, 11/17/2000, p.C22, "...SOUND AND FURY, as illuminating and comprehensive as it is heart-wrenching, is an example of what the documentary can accomplish at its most vital and engaging..."

Entertainment Weekly, 11/17/2000, p.90, "...Shattering....A work of intimate and wrenching humanity." -- Rating: A

USA Today, 01/04/2002, p.4E, "...One of the great documentaries of recent years....Director Josh Aronson and producer Roger Weisberg are extremely sensitive and fair, and the actors dubbing the deaf principals' voices are exceptional at conveying the hot emotions..."

Title Note

Theatrical release: October 25, 2000 (NY/LA).

According to one of the audiologists in SOUND AND FURY, children who are born deaf are recommended to have the operation for the cochlear implant at age 2 1/2. The device consists of a piece of technology that is drilled into the skull behind one ear, a magnetic receiver that attaches to the permanent piece, and a handheld control box--like a walkman--that extends from the ear.

The film is 80 minutes long and is structured like an investigative news report set off by serious monologues, dialogues, and high-drama family debates.

SOUND AND FURY uses subtitles to emphasize the differences between hearing and not hearing. During the opening sequence, an ocean scene offset by music, and a subtitle reads, "Ocean waves breaking, gulls, background music," for the non-hearing audience. During the film's debates--which are usually signed as well as spoken--both parts get subtitles.

Product Quotation/Excerpt

"I really am happy being deaf. It's very peaceful."--Peter Artinian (Heather's father) in voice-over.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
Outtakes
Production Interviews
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access

Product Notes

SOUND & FURY is a documentary that examines the issues surrounding the controversial cochlear implant--the medical technology that, through an operation, allows deaf people to hear. The film follows the Artinian family--adult brothers Chris (hearing) and Peter (deaf), their wives and their children--living in Glen Cove Long Island. Over a two-year period, the camera pays witness to the pain, frustration, and conflicts they encounter as these parents research the pros and cons of giving their children (5-year-old Heather, and 1 1/2-year-old Peter) the operation. At the root of the argument against the operation is the fear that the deaf culture--and American Sign Language--would be lost entirely were the Cochlear implant to become a standard procedure administered to all deaf children. Arguments in favor of the procedure argue that a child who can hear with use of the cochlear implant could participate in hearing schools where they might learn more, learn faster, and never feel that they are disabled and different from other children.

This film, with its passionate but entirely objective approach to this difficult subject, will change viewers' ideas about deafness, parenting, medical advancements, and will leave them pondering these ideas for a long time to come.
Peter and Nita Artinian move their family (with daughte, Heather) to Frederick Maryland, which has a strong deaf community and deaf schools.

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