Bob wrote: > << I found it hard to understand what half the apes were saying - now I > understand why lip-reading is important to deaf people! >> > > Although I am not deaf, I do have significant hearing loss and was taught to > lip-read in elementary school. This is why I have never bothered to see any > of the "Ape" movies or many other films (mostly sci-fi) that have the actors' > real lips covered. (Cartoons and burkas are also a nightmare for the hearing > impaired!) And while I'm no angel, I have never eavesdropped on anyone in my > life.
I was a little glib in my initial post, which wasn't my intention. This movie seriously brought to mind how difficult it would be to understand someone you couldn't see, if your hearing was impaired. Or even understanding someone speaking normally if you had impaired vision. Something most of us take for granted. I found I had to really pay attention to this movie, particularly to the context of any conversation. Even speaking on the phone to someone - with an accent different to your own - can be difficult at times. We usually treat the five senses as independent (except perhaps taste and smell) but this made me realise they are far more connected than I had ever given thought to before. Hell NPIMH: CSNY - Deja Vu (the opening lines -"If you smile at me, I will understand, because that is something everybody, everywhere, does in the same language") ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell's Personal Photo Page: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz
