I really enjoyed the film Sound of Fury. It tells the story of two families who are faced with the choice on whether or not to implant their deaf child so that they will be able to hear, and in response, talk. The entire movie describes the controversy of getting the cochlear implants. The deaf community is completely against it and they argue that these types of advances will destroy their group of people. The other people believe that giving the implant will only enhance the lie of the child and it will allow them to live a more normal life.
In the end, one family decides to give their child the implant, while the other veers away. To be honest, I think that it is very wrong to withhold this treatment from your deaf child. I don’t care what you say about the richness of the deaf community; the fact is that a child that is not deaf has a better chance of succeeding at whatever they want to than a child who remains deaf their entire life. Their decision to not give the implant truly angered me because clearly they were oblivious to the opportunities that they were withholding from their child by doing so.
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