This movie is, as so many Dutch movies, beautiful shot, but it seems to me a moral movie I didn't want to see. It's a movie about how two deaf people do possible see (and 'hear') the world around them. It has not a story which appeals to me. Two deaf people who are in love, which love is criticized by their parents and whose deafness is ridiculed by bystanders who don't understand their behavior which is defined by their handicap, is too one-dimensional. To me it seems that many Dutch movies, like this one, are made by enthusiastic cinematographers who do disgust normal citizen. It seems to me, that angry young Cinema lovers when came to the big city and started on the film school the made after graduating this school their painfully financed flawed masterpieces special to bash their own often small-town youth,. So, characters are often, like the cinematographers want to be, young, misunderstood, silly, lonely, unconventional, often intelligent, recalcitrant and fighting against society (parents, friends, bosses, teachers... everyone who does have more authority). This Dutch society is still a calvinistic, goody-goody, straightforward but sometimes cruel, brutal, and very stupid society. Although the vision of the lonely heart who fights the world can be an interesting starting point in making a movie, it results in many Dutch movies, as in this movie in an unwanted two-edged, simplified view on the Dutch society. This view is probably the result of the idea of moviemakers that to gain a cinema audience movie stories must have strong contrasts and must be simplified, otherwise the general public wouldn't understand the movie. Together with the other Dutch movie-characteristic; the seemingly impossible ability to write good dialogues, and the Dutch need to show (long)sex scenes results in many movies that failed. Although in this movie about the impossible love of two deaf people dialogue is of course not so important, it makes this movie more an art-video then an entertaining spellbinding picture which many Dutch reviewers do want to see in this movie.
