Monday, March 23, 2015

A man hears for the first time.

9 comments:

Chip Ahoy said...

If I used "satire" label that would give it away even before you saw this coming a mile away.

As soon as the woman speaks the joke is use up but they milk the setup anyway. After all, they did go to all the trouble of making it appear convincing so might as well play it out fully.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

If the first thing I heard was Hillary's voice, I'd ask for a loaded gun.

ricpic said...

The "deaf" actor does a heckuva good job mimicking the way deaf people pronounce.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Kind of makes you wonder what humans with all the senses we know about are nevertheless missing out on.

Rabel said...

I have a question. Do people blind from birth use their eyebrows to convey emotion the way sighted people do?

MamaM said...

Too good. I was fooled, which started me laughing as the rest unfolded.

Methadras said...

As a goof I get it. However, as someone who has been a witness to seeing someone hearing for the first time in their lives, the experience is imprinted into my soul. It was truly a miraculous thing to witness and not a try eye in the house. The sheer joy witness that day was had a substance I'd never experienced before. It was glorious magic. I'll never forget it for as long as I live.

To see a grown man react to the voices of his mother and father (everyone made sure that he would hear his mother and father before anyone else. The tech was a genius in how he dialed the implant in without saying a word and used mom and dad's speech and my friends reactions to fine tune) as if the universe opened up to him for the first time was beautiful and so damned heart warming. He literally jumped out of his chair and held onto them for 5 minutes while weeping. I'm crying now just typing this out while I remember the whole thing.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I was fooled. The guy playing deaf was really good.

Or could it be that it's not that hard to play deaf and act emotional faking hearing for the first time?

I don't know.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I mean my sympathies are geared, predestined to like the deaf person. So, I could definitely not see it coming. that's the answer.