It dealt with how the society view on the Deaf person. The hearing society pities on the Deaf people; however, the Deaf society advocates that they do not need pity from the hearing society. Thus, this movie conveys the message of awareness of the truth in Deaf culture. Moreover, this shows that there are actually many ways to educate the Deaf people. Matt’s life can be divided into two sections: life in hearing culture and life in Deaf culture. During the life in hearing culture, despite the support from his family, wrestling helped him to be strong about being “Deaf.” Moreover, he is able to do what the hearing people can do such as going to prom and playing wrestling, which means that he is not much different from the others. One negative fact was that he did not have any people or even friends to share his stories; he had to keep it to himself and become independent. After he entered to the Deaf culture, this negative fact was solved. He had people who were in common with him, supported him even more and finally, this altered his mind of have to be independent to himself to be able to depend on someone. Many people, especially hearing people, consider the Deaf people as disabled, limited and lesser than them. However, it is a prejudice to treat them as handicapped and lesser than them because they are actually capable of
It dealt with how the society view on the Deaf person. The hearing society pities on the Deaf people; however, the Deaf society advocates that they do not need pity from the hearing society. Thus, this movie conveys the message of awareness of the truth in Deaf culture. Moreover, this shows that there are actually many ways to educate the Deaf people. Matt’s life can be divided into two sections: life in hearing culture and life in Deaf culture. During the life in hearing culture, despite the support from his family, wrestling helped him to be strong about being “Deaf.” Moreover, he is able to do what the hearing people can do such as going to prom and playing wrestling, which means that he is not much different from the others. One negative fact was that he did not have any people or even friends to share his stories; he had to keep it to himself and become independent. After he entered to the Deaf culture, this negative fact was solved. He had people who were in common with him, supported him even more and finally, this altered his mind of have to be independent to himself to be able to depend on someone. Many people, especially hearing people, consider the Deaf people as disabled, limited and lesser than them. However, it is a prejudice to treat them as handicapped and lesser than them because they are actually capable of