I loved this movie. It's a poignant story of a young man struggling with a severe stutter. He's isolated by his inability to communicate normally. One of the few glimmers of hope is an online, text-only relationship with a woman. When she surprises him with a request to meet up, his safe little prison he's built for himself is suddenly thrown off kilter. As a stutterer myself, I was really moved by the little touches and insights in the movie - the rehearsing of lines, the struggles with phone calls etc.. Even how the man teaches himself sign language and pretends to be deaf as a way to communicate. I tried this myself.
SPOILER - The ending, however, was my favorite part. The woman he finally meets up with is deaf and she signs to him. If you don't stutter, you probably think "aw, that's sweet, what a perfect pair."
The sad reality though, that you know if you stutter, is that it's incredibly difficult to read stutterer's lips. The motions are wrong or repeated. And some stutterers intentionally move their lips differently then normal people to make sounds in an effort to work around their affliction. So he'll have to keep using sign language - this sad little crutch he has for himself. He'll probably give up on trying to talk and just act as if he's a deaf mute. It's a little twisted, and, in my opinion, brilliant.
SPOILER - The ending, however, was my favorite part. The woman he finally meets up with is deaf and she signs to him. If you don't stutter, you probably think "aw, that's sweet, what a perfect pair."
The sad reality though, that you know if you stutter, is that it's incredibly difficult to read stutterer's lips. The motions are wrong or repeated. And some stutterers intentionally move their lips differently then normal people to make sounds in an effort to work around their affliction. So he'll have to keep using sign language - this sad little crutch he has for himself. He'll probably give up on trying to talk and just act as if he's a deaf mute. It's a little twisted, and, in my opinion, brilliant.