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Catching up with CODA

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In Reply to: RE: Academy Awards 2022 ranked posted by RGA on March 20, 2022 at 00:27:07

So every year I look at critic's lists from place like Sight and Sound, New York Times, the New Yorker. Looking for things that might be interesting. And I look at Oscar nominations, but with less interest. Since the Oscars always trend toward big commercially successful movies, they generally leave out much that is of interest to me.

But just today, I read that CODA had some big momentum, and I thought somewhat reluctantly that I should see it. The only thing I knew was that it was about a hearing kid in a deaf family that wanted to sing, and that sounded pretty dull to me.

I was surprised to really enjoy it. It is, to be sure, a very common and familiar movie story, a family drama. But like any formula genre, it can be done well, and in this case, the parts click together in a most satisfying experience. The deafness does add novelty to the family relationships, but the easy profane banter would have been fun in any language. And the family is brought to life by 4 brilliant performances.

Really liked it a lot. As far as winning, I'd personally go for Drive My Car or Power of the Dog, but if momentum pushes CODA to the top, I'd be happy for them.

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CODA - Mike B. 10:46:39 03/27/22 (0)
I finally got to see CODA. A excellent feel good film. I was pleasantly surprised how well the film/actors were able to successfully convey the discussions between the deaf members.
A worthy choice for best picture.
Perhaps the best 'Hallmark' movie ever. Nt - johntoste 11:11:31 03/22/22 (0)
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RE: Catching up with CODA - RGA 01:02:11 03/22/22 (0)
I agree -

The scope of the film is formulaic but if you do the formula exceedingly well then that counts for something. And the actors were actually deaf and I enjoyed the aspect of the daughter singing and the parents kind of looking around at other people's reactions for their cues. I bought into the family dynamic and enjoyed it - if it wins the best picture award I would be quite happy.

Actually, I am happy if they just pick a quality movie - I had no problem with most of the films they picked over the last 2 decades but none of them matched my top pick.

I think the Academy has improved though - I mean Birdman was a rather artsy endeavour and not the standard flick nor was Moonlight and even The Shape of Water was out of the norm - they may not have been my first choice but you can't really say they're standard Hollywood fare.

I would be stunned to see Drive My Car win after Parasite won in 2020.

People were so idiotically outraged that they chose a foreign film for best picture. How dare they have subtitles! LOL.

But you never know - it was nominated after all so it has a chance.

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