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Magic Numbers— Panda Games for kids

Education and Games

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Welcome to an Universe of Numbers! Magic numbers is an intuitive and educational game for your baby...

Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio

Nikki M. Taylor

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The story of Margaret Garner-the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of...

Mummy's Little Helper: The Heartrending True Story of a Young Girl Secretly Caring for Her Severely Disabled Mother

Casey Watson

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The fifth book from bestselling author and specialist foster carer Casey Watson. A recent census...

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Sep 19, 2020

Children of a Lesser God (1986)

1986 | Drama, Musical, Romance

7.2

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Unfortunately doesn't come out entirely unscathed from stage to screen, a touch too long and a touch too slow for this to be consistently potent - and some segments are a bit too writerly even for me as well as the occasional Broadway banality here and there that sort of brings this to a lull in the middle. But all the same, this is surprisingly complex and fragile filmmaking on the subject for 1986. On a technical note the music and visuals are hushed rhapsody together, and I particularly admire how there's an expressive intimacy in the conversations Hurt has with deaf characters whereas there's this palpably cold distance in the ones he has with hearing ones - an aspect that seems almost intrinsic. And on that note I also have to appreciate how it confronts Hurt's fixer mentality *as well as* Matlin's resistant anger rather than making the deaf character ultimately bend to the will of the 'virtuous helper' 'for their own good'. William Hurt is sensational, and Marlee Matlin is in one of the top-tier greatest performances of the 80s - the fact that they self-gratifyingly gave her their pity award and then immediately refused to cast her in much else is evidence #18,000 on why the Oscars are rancid bullshit. On top of all of that it's packed with awesome scenes and it's just a damn good romance... though if I have one more quibble: do the hearing characters really need to repeat aloud every fucking thing the deaf characters sign to them to absolutely no one at all but themselves like they're talking to a toddler? This really couldn't have been subtitled? But I digress, I still cried multiple times so we aight.