Imagine what your life would be like if you were a deaf mute who couldn't hear and couldn't speak.
Do you feel that the sky has fallen, in the silent world you are lonely, helpless, self-abandoned, everyone will sympathize with you, even pity you, maybe you will complain about why life is so cruel to you.
Today, we will introduce a film about deaf and mute people , "The Baileyettes".
Poster of The Baileyards
Most films about people with disabilities either describe their helplessness and suffering, or praise their tenacity and indomitability in overcoming suffering, as inspirational as chicken soup for the soul.
But "The Baileyard Family" is different, although the family of four, husband and wife and son are deaf and mute, only the daughter not only has normal hearing, but also has a natural sound, but they do not feel that they are the apple that God has bitten, on the contrary, they are optimistic and cheerful, they love life incomparably, and they are more lovely than us normal people.
Released in 2014, The Belliers is a family comedy directed by Eric Lattego, which, at the time of its release, maintained box office titles for four consecutive weeks, winning the 40th French Caesar Film For Best Newcomer Actress, Best Picture (nominated), Best Actor (nominated), and Best Actress (nominated). So far, it has maintained a high score of 8.4 on Douban, which is better than 89% of family films and 94% of comedies.
The Baileyard family
As the first rays of the morning shine on the farm in a small French town, a calf is born under the care of the farmer Bellier and his daughter Paula.
Life is so magical!
Parents give life to their children, and children continue the blood of their parents and thrive under the nourishment of love.
The farmer, Baileyard, and his wife, have two children, and a family of four love each other, kissing each other and saying goodbye before going out every day.
What was different was that they were a special family, Bellier and his wife and young son were deaf and mute, and only her daughter Paula was normal. As a result, Paula became a sign language interpreter for family communication with the outside world, whether it was going to see a doctor, selling cheese, or communicating with people, Paula was an indispensable little assistant.
It can be said that without Paula, the Bellier family will be a mess, and when they communicate with people, they will either babble or always smile, in short, the Bellier family cannot lack Paula. And Paula is happy to work as a translator because she loves her mom and dad and brother and is willing to give everything for them.
Stills from The Belliers
I thought that the film only talked about the blind love of the deaf and dumb family, but I didn't want the original warm family to set off a lot of family turmoil because of Paula's musical talent.
Although her parents and brother are deaf and mute, Paula is the only normal person in the family, and she also has a musical talent, and her voice is like a natural sound. With the encouragement of her school teachers, she joined the school choir and sang with her classmate Gabriel. She also signed up for a Competition for a French radio show and, if successful, would go to Paris to study music.
This incident made the Belliers very distressed, on the one hand, they were worried that their daughter would not be able to live a normal life without them, and on the other hand, they were afraid that their daughter would leave them. Madame Bellier, in particular, did her best to prevent Paula from continuing to sing, because she herself could not hear the sound, let alone enjoy the music, and she even hated the normal people who could hear the voice.
After a drunken encounter, Madame Bellier said to Paula, "When you were born, when I learned that you had hearing, I cried, how can I give birth to a child with hearing, it was your father who comforted me, saying that you are at most demented, and you can still sing now."
This is a deaf-mute mother's helpless crying about physical mutilation, a sound she can never hear, but normal people can easily get. In fact, her heart is not disgusted with people with hearing, but she cannot communicate with normal people with hearts.
But, as George Bernard Shaw famously said, "Home is the only place in the world where human flaws and failures are hidden, and it also contains sweet love." ”
So, although they couldn't hear the sound, the Belliers watched Paula's first performance. At first, they were overwhelmed, a little bored, and even took a nap.
When Paula and her classmate Gabriel sang affectionately, the audience reveled in it and burst into tears. The director treats this passage as silent, listening to his daughter's singing from the perspective of the Baileyettes.
The Belliers looked at the audience, who were in tears because of the song, and were very curious.
Back at home, paula was breathing alone on the grass when Dad came over and said in sign language, "What's that song?" ”
Paula replied, "That's a story about a man and a woman falling in love. ”
Dad let his daughter sing to him, Dad put his hand on his daughter's throat, although he could not hear the sound, he could touch the sound, his hand felt the vibration of the vocal cords, but also felt the charm of the music.
The father understood his daughter's love and dream for music and decided to support her daughter and let her freely and bravely pursue her dreams.
Dad woke Paula up at night and told her, "Let's go to Paris." So a family of four, in action, drove to Paris.
At the Paris audition, Paula sang to her family the song she had been practicing for a long time, "Fly Away," in sign language, and just as the lyrics of the song were, Paula wanted to tell her family that she was not running away from home, but spreading her wings and flying high.
Paula expresses her love for her family through music, and the Belliers and Paula's brother respond to their love for Paula with a hissing "cheer".
Compared with the noisy, restless, and even hostile families of ordinary families, although the Bellier family is physically crippled, they have no inferiority, no self-abandonment, they are a warm and happy family, loving life and loving each other deeply, which is what we want to learn.
Family affection is the greatest fate that God has given us. Each of us is in the middle of a sea of people, struggling to find each other and become the warmest relationship in the world - family. And the family is like a clear spring, seemingly dispensable, and it seems to be unconscious to drink on weekdays, which makes people not care. But the love between family members is silent, and we grow up under the nourishment of love.
As long as there is love, we can survive;
As long as there is love, we can feel the warmth;
As long as there is love, we can not be alone in this world.