Tag: English

Eavesdropping can lead to interesting insights.

What do Darth Vader (Star Wars), Le Chiffre (James Bond), Captain Hook (Disney) and Dan Taylor (Forrest Gump) have in common?

Short film, An Irish Goodbye, with protagonist and actor having down’s syndrome wins an academy award.

What at first seems like just another average high school rom-com quickly develops into a complete coming-of-age story that greatly enacts the ambivalence and conflicts of being “CODA”: child of deaf adults.

Travel repeats itself as a narrative device and a metaphor for personal transformation in literature and film. To address disability, the film Presque resorts to this formula with moments of sincerity and many predictable ones.