The visual stimulation that cinema offers can bring a range of emotions which can have a decisively healthy and robust impact on viewers. Cinema is a powerful vehicle for human culture, education and leisure bringing hope and inspiration while opening our minds. It also enables us to gain new perspectives and understanding through its narrative. Dealing with human emotions, cinema also empowers moviegoers to access areas of human experience through cognitive transportation. What is more, cinema can also start a conversation. This is what recently released and acclaimed American film CODA does.
Heder, also cast deaf actors for the film to lend it a touch of authenticity. She cast Marlee Matlin as mother and Troy Kostur as father in the film.
CODA is the coming-of-age story about 17-year old hearing daughter of deaf parents in a fishing family. The role of daughter Ruby Rossi is played by Emilia Jones who helps her parents and deaf brother....