Coda

 

In music, a coda (Italian for "tail", plural code) is a passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end. Technically, it is an expanded cadence. It may be as simple as a few measures, or as complex as an entire section.

CODA is also a 2021 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Sian Heder. An English-language remake of the 2014 French-Belgian film La Famille Bélier, it stars Emilia Jones as the titular child of deaf adults (CODA) and only hearing member of a deaf family, who attempts to help her family's struggling fishing business, while pursuing her own aspirations of being a singer. Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, and Marlee Matlin are featured in supporting roles. An international co-production between the United States and France with La Famille Bélier producer Philippe Rousselet reprising his role as producer, it was filmed on location in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the United States.

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In my continuing effort to understand our species I dwell into those who are not like us. They are not aliens but invisible. They walk among us but we do not pay attention.

Have you ever sat with a deaf person and try to communicate? They lip read and have a sign language that is beautiful to watch but I’m totally illiterate. Like people who live in a foreign land, there is a way to talk but it takes time. When you go to the grocery everyone speaks the same language, until they don’t.

Being a segregated culture just crossing the street can be stepping into a different world. It could be as simple as your clothing or your skin color.

Music is a great internationals method to combine different cultural sounds (unless you are deaf). Trying to teach a blind person the Mona Lisa or someone with down symptom algebra may take time but it is worth the effort.

No matter how we interchange with those who are ‘different’ at the end there is a coda. There will be an end to the cadence.