The movie Coda on Apple TV+

We watched it over the weekend and really enjoyed it.

I loved it too.
The main character is played by the daughter of British singer Aled Jones who is famous for singing ‘Walking in the Air’ for The Snowman at age 13.

We watched it Saturday night and really enjoyed it. I think that the actor who plays the dad will win the Oscar for supporting actor.

We watched The Power of the Dog on Friday night - it was as disturbing as Coda was enjoyable, but has haunted me as truly excellent films do. I highly recommend it, but it is not a feel-good film by any stretch of the imagination and should only be watched when you are in a good frame of mind, IMO.

It’s so fantastic. I watched it last summer and it was easily one of my favorite movies all year long.

I watched it a couple of weeks ago and just loved it! I’m working through movies with Oscar noms in major categories and it’s my fave so far. I would be surprised if it won best picture but the actor who played the father was nothing short of amazing.

You might enjoy the French version of Coda (it came out a few years ago) - La famille Bélier. I doubt it's on Apple, though.

One of the best movies I have seen in a long, long time. I cried through most of it. Like, truly ugly crying by the end of it but in a good way. Gaaahhh, it is so good!!!

I absolutely loved Coda.

Helpful to me!!! It looks great. I’ve had Apple TV for quite awhile and I’ve never actually watched anything other than Oprah’s Book Club. It looks like it’s time for me to expand my horizons.

I was so happy to see CODA win.

The silent scene during the concert is just brilliant.

I had a friend who was also a CODA (we sadly lost touch when I moved.) She had an amazing story - she was the only child of deaf parents and their only link to the hearing world. She was set up on a blind date with a guy and thought the date went really well, but he kept putting her off for a few weeks afterwards. They finally went out again and when he came to pick her up, he started signing to her parents - he'd spent the few weeks apart learning sign language. And yes, she did marry him.  

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You know how you can be particularly critical of any movie that portrays your profession?

The concert scene made me crazy. There should have been an interpreter at the concert. The school is obliged to provide one. The parents just had to request it, just as they would have for years for parent-teacher conferences and other events. But if we had gotten that reality, we wouldn’t have gotten that particular thematic build-up scene and then we wouldn’t have gotten the daughter-initiated resolution at her later audition. 

Just like the preposterous idea of a judge today basically fining somebody for having a disability. Out loud! Or the idea that the CODA was literally/legally needed for her parents’ continued employment. There were so many better, realistic ways to portray those important CODA/Deaf themes for an audience that largely doesn’t have exposure to them. Instead, they went the heavy-handed, Lifetime movie writing route too many times for my taste. 

I do give them points, though, for having the parents discussing dinner plans during the concert. In the past, there have been too many hackneyed, hearingcentric scenes of Deaf people being wistful or sad over not hearing music.

Okay, grumpus out. If we had downvotes, I understand they would rain on me. LOL.