Love Is Never Silent
The movie "Love is Never Silent " is primarily a story about a hearing child left alone with deaf parents when her younger hearing brother dies and how she deals with her role as her parents sole link to the hearing world. ... In the end, the mother realizes that the way they clung to her was wrong and an understanding eventually was reached and free expression of their love for each other was once again flowing between them. ... Love Is Never Silent is a made for television movie that first premiered in December of 1985. ... We watch as Margaret suffers the trials and tribulations of a teenager and a young woman in love culminating when as a young wife and mother, she triumph’s over her inner demons and for the first time in her life is able to fully enjoy the positives as well as deal with the negatives of both the hearing and the deaf world. ... Earlier, Margaret’s personal struggles cause her to miss out on many opportunities in life with regard to friendships, school and at one point almost causes her to miss out on experiencing romantic love. ... The parents, being poor, are not able to afford the niceties and the mortician callously implies that the parents don’t love their son saying, “What kind of parents are you? ... However it must be also noted that Margaret shows the deep love that she possess for her parents by shielding her parents to the callous and insensitive remarks of the mortician. Margaret never relays the “What kind of parents are you? ... Though her struggles may have taken a downturn in the shame that the Morticians words were meant to invoke, she, nevertheless, in her love for her parents, shielded her parents from those hateful words. ... Second, as she gets older and is better able to understand the complexities of life, her pride doesn’t allow her to consider that her parents met, fell in love, began life together as husband and wife as well as gave birth to two children without her help. ... The only thing that Love Is Never Silent does not really seem to give closure to is the attitude between Margaret’s husband and her parents. ... We never see Margaret’s husband dealing with the deaf community or for that matter come to terms with her parents. ... In any case, from the viewpoint of Margaret’s emotional growth, there is no doubt in my mind that had the newlywed couple continued to live with her parents, Margaret never would have been able to truly come to understand Mr. ... I have never identified with the deaf and through most of my years I too, have felt a certain uneasiness in the presence of the deaf. ... My parents, both Hearing, had never been exposed to the Deaf nor Cerebral Palsy. ... ‘Love Is Never Silent’ ultimately expresses that it is our uniqueness that enables us to bond with others, a bond that fosters a feeling of special-ness and belonging.