Climax? - Children of a Lesser God (1986) Discussion

[–] snoonie 18 years ago

The point, I hope, was made that Sara was an independent woman who felt she was being smothered by his constant interference with her need to communicate on her own. He was constantly trying to speak for her (by this I am not referring to the device used in the film, of course) and she resented this. She eventually has to separate from him in order to establish her own identity.

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[–] Supertzar 18 years ago

The climax is the orgasm of the film.

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[–] slrcks 17 years ago

Lol Supertzar: What is your signature supposed to mean? Actually it would be:

"Ich habe einen grossen Schnabel" :D What do you want to say by that? :D

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[–] dphipps100-1 17 years ago

The climax is when James finally realizes that Sarah does not need to be rescued or to be assimilated into his hearing world. He has spent the entire movie trying to get her to participate in his way in the hearing world by using her voice, because he sees hearing-impaired people as "defective". Sarah persistently refuses to do this, however, because she's convinced there's nothing "wrong" with her. At the end, he finally realizes that she does not need "rescuing" and expresses a willingness to relate to her on HER terms instead of trying to get her to relate to him on his terms. At this point, he finally opens the door to perceiving her (and others like her) as "equal".

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[–] bing148 17 years ago

Well said, though I think he does make a good point that she wants him to relate to her on her terms while expressing no willingness to relate to him on his. (AKA, she expects him to speak to her in her language all the time and won't make an effort to speak in his language)

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[–] dphipps100-1 17 years ago

That's true, I could go along with that, thanks.

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[–] colinvespa125 16 years ago

problem being Deaf, they can't hear themselves talk, any attempt to speak will not be perfect, Sign Language is their language, in fact I do think it failing the Children by spending too much time teaching them to speak (in an Imperfect way) when they should be concentrating on educating them, in their language so that they can easily be educated, it has been proven to work and they can access other Languages that way.

a Hearing person can easily learn Sign Language, a Deaf person cannot easily learn to speak.

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[–] adamtwelve-1 16 years ago

the climax in the movie is the break up fight that they have when both express their frustrations and she uses her voice for the first time yelling at him.
I'd say that is the climax of the movie.

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[–] SanDigital 16 years ago

I agree completely with the person above me.

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[–] jescci 16 years ago

<<The climax is when James finally realizes that Sarah does not need to be rescued or to be assimilated into his hearing world. He has spent the entire movie trying to get her to participate in his way in the hearing world by using her voice, because he sees hearing-impaired people as "defective". Sarah persistently refuses to do this, however, because she's convinced there's nothing "wrong" with her. At the end, he finally realizes that she does not need "rescuing" and expresses a willingness to relate to her on HER terms instead of trying to get her to relate to him on his terms. At this point, he finally opens the door to perceiving her (and others like her) as "equal".>>

All true. But hasn't Sarah changed as well? She quit her job, took a new one in a hearing world, seemed happy there and was planning to go to college. It seemed James did rescue her on some level even if it was not entirely the way he thought need be done.

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