What? Is a great example of how small, independent films can be innovative and surprise you. It's a relatively.straightforward (sometimes very straightforward) depiction of discrimination in hollywood, but is heartfelt and inclusive for its audience - looking to bring you along and empathize with its characters while it shows the unending array of challenges, slights, and outright prejudice facing its protagonist.
The film is all the more interesting both for its background - the film's producer's, it's leading actor, and a number of cast and crew are deaf - and for the fun it has evoking a silent era film, with a decidedly more modern injection of style and humor.
The film was developed and shot with a small budget, which is readily apparent from its choices of location and limitations in its scope. But it's never anything but interesting, funny, and engaging, on a topic that could use more discussion in the arts. Highly recommended.
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WHAT? is a black and white, silent (and signing) comedy about a struggling deaf actor, sick of agreeing to increasingly humiliating tasks just to get a role, who decides to take matters into his own hands.
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April 24, 2022 at 01:13 PM
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Terrific and original independent film
The Artist, but on steroids.
This was a surreal experience. One of the most amazing cinematic experiences I have ever went through. This film is beautiful, and will have you on the bitterest sweetest tears of pain and joy.
This is a proof that the Academy Awards is full of crap. It's not just academy-nomination worthy, but multi-academy-winning worthy.
Seriously boring, baseless plot that has no purpose
Do. Not. Waste. Your. Time. Nor. Your. Money. Watching. This. Movie.
I know a couple of deaf people and they have expressed that this movie does not apply to their "silent" life. Next time make a more relevant movie to the deaf culture.