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 whether she wants to go for her passion or stay with the family business.  This conflict we all see in our own lives.  Do we do what we are passionate about or do we do what we always have done?  

It is a coming-of-age story that stresses the value of family and that even though we are from different cultures we shouldn't let our limitations keep us from doing what we were born to do.  What is your passion?  What do you want to do with your life?  Are you going for it or are you settling?  We should never settle.  Go for your dreams like Ruby.  Who knows maybe you might get there. 

Thank you all 

Lance 

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