CODA
Now that it is Academy Award season, I thought I would start watching the best picture nominations. The first one I am going to write about is going to be CODA. It is available on Apple TV if you are interested in it. This film is about Ruby Rossi who is in high school and her parents and her brother are deaf. They run a fishing business with their daughter as their translater. She joins the choir at her school because of a boy but finds her voice through her Teacher Mr. Villalobos. She works hard with him and starts to really find her voice and that music is her passion. She then tries to explain music to her deaf family. They don't understand because they can't hear it then she shows them that it is like a story. Then they start to understand her passion and that she needs to go for her dreams. This is a very encouraging story about how you need to go for your dreams. Ruby is trying to get into a music school in Boston called Berklee. She then has to decide w