Brittany Escobar
ASL101
Movie Response
February 8, 2010
Movie Response
In the Movie, “Tomorrow Dad will be Deaf and Other Stories” by Bonnie
Keith was simply amazing. I thought it was absolutely great, the way Bonnie signs is
incredible. Not only are her signs so fluid but her face is so animated. I think watching
this movie really showed me actually how important it is to use your emotions, how a
gesture can mean so much. The was she would talk about her mother and the facial
expressions she did it was as if she was entirely a whole different person! A sign that
stood at me was “watch” , she not only told the audience that she was watching here
mother but showed everyone how she watched with her emotions. When Bonnie signs it
really tells a story her signs are so big and fast and each sign is accompanied with a big
Emotion.
When we first started to watch the movie I was focusing on her signs so
hard that I was accentually missing the whole meaning of her signs because I could not
see her emotion’s on her face. There are times throughout the movie that you really didn’t
need the narration in the background because her signs were so vivid. The emphasis she
put on specific signs made her signs so much more powerful, it stretched the meaning a
lot more. Her use of space while signing was a little big from what we were taught in
class. They were everywhere and when she described a person or was talking about the person she herself was in character and acted like the person. When she finger spelled and
the story was getting more in tense it would be extremely fast to the point where I could
make out a couple of letters. When the story was more sentimental like the story where
she talked about her grandfather passing away she would finger spell slower. All her signs
really evolve with her emotions.
The most interesting thing that I found in her use of American...