Hear and Now chronicles the life of the film makers, Irene Taylor Brodsky, deaf parents' decision to undergo risky cochlear implant surgery, and following their journey from a comfortable marriage of silence into a new, complex and challenging world of sound. This is a wonderful and compelling story with many happy moments as well as moments of anguish. To me, as I started to watch this film, I thought how wonderful to be able to hear after a life time of deafness. But the problems, with all of a sudden being able to hear every little thing in our noisy world, could be so over whelming. Instead of blocking out all of the ambient noises around us, they were hearing and concentrating on every noise. It is a wonderful story and it it high up on the Uncle Willie too see list. It is being shown on HBO this month.
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