Learning about ASL and how it’s different from British Sign Language is one thing that I didn’t know. I thought that Sign Language was universal which is why it’s used all over the world. But it’s different versions of sign language. Whenever we watch a movie, there are signs that are conveyed nonverbally. For instance the movie Get Out, the message that is conveyed are in the racial undertones. There’s the main character who is seen as comfortable amongst his girlfriend and her family and friends. Then the best friend of the main character that was conveyed was uneasy. But to the audience it was seen as funny. As the movie continues the overall nonverbal tone is uneasy. The main character is uneasy and the audience is now uneasy. There’s something boiling and it’s starting to come to the surface. The ending is one of my favorite psychological thriller movie endings. Some people don’t see this movie as a thriller because of the nonverbal communication. It’s not communicated to them due in part to the basis of being relatable. A percentage of the audience didn’t find the main character POV relatable, but many did. The more you watch the movie, the more you start to pick up on the nonverbal communication. The more you see the racial undertones. It’s like the movie Scream. You watch Scream once and it’s creepy. You watch it again, you ask yourself how come you couldn’t see that these characters were the killers. You watch it again and you see the characters do something different and now everyone is a suspect. You watch it again and you start to have theories on everything in the movie, even to what the characters are wearing. You can pick up on a lot of nonverbal communication but figuring out what they actually mean is up for debate. Can we ever get the true meaning of things without having to verbally communicate the message. I find that once the message is verbally conveyed it takes away all of the other possibilities.
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