The Silent Child

3/11/2023

**A perspective to the Silent Child (2017)** **Introduction:** The short film The Silent Child (2017), 20m, a brilliant low-budget film ($10k) made by Chris Overton, with a pleasant play and a fantastic multi-layered screenplay of his wife, Rachel Shenton (British), great cinematography by Ali Farahani (Iranian), and impressive music composed by Amir Konjani (Iranian), was truly deserved to achieve the title of the best short film at the Oscars 2018. **Plot theme:** The theme of the first layer of the film can be seen as a detailed and pathological approach to the problems of deaf or hard-of-hearing children. Only the very same sentence that Joanna hears from Paul that the reason why she was called to this house, hasn’t been to understand Libby but to help Sue feel more comfortable i

3/21/2024

I know it's not exactly the same thing, but I've recently been suffering from one of those head colds that goes for your ears! It's meant that for the last few days I've been able to hear next to nothing. What that has meant is I've noticed just how awkward and difficult life can be when you cannot hear, or that sounds are muffled and indistinct. Imagine, then, how much more difficult life is for deaf four year old "Libby" (Maisie Sly). She lives with her family - a loving but busy bunch who don't really know where to start with the young girl. Then a social worker "Jo" (Rachel Shenton - who also wrote this) arrives on the scene determined to help bring the youngster out of her shell by teaching her sign language to complement her skilled lip-reading. There are early signs of success for "