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To "be implanted," in the lan- guage of those opposed, is to turn the children into technolog- ical experiments. To refuse the implant, in the view of the pro- ponents, is virtual child abuse. Although Aronson's film resists partisanship, he is motivated, in part, by a reconciliatory drive. "Once I started the story, and doing all my research, I hoped the film would make a plea for acceptance of choice within the deaf community and in the greater hearing world," he says. As Sound and Fury suggests, it may well be a long, difficult and painful reconciliation. "There's been such a rift in the deaf com- munity for hundreds of years between the "oralists" and "man- ualists," the people who lip-read and speak, and the people who sign," says Aronson. ❑ Sound and Fury screens at the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10-12. $6. 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As he comments upon his intellectual and personal develop- ment, it is not only the narrator who is psychoanalyst but the viewer as well. We watch as Freud remembers forma- tive moments from his childhood. In one of these memories, "Sigi" Freud walks with his father in provincial Freiburg and they are verbally assaulted by a group of anti-Semitic townspeople. Forced to step off the pavement and walk instead in ankle-deep mud, the young Freud witnesses his father being emasculated and humiliated. Prominent in the film is Freud's repeat- ed confrontation with anti-Semitism and his growing understanding of how being a Jew perpetually casts him in a role as "other" in the social and scientific com- munities of 19th-century Vienna. The film is provocatively ambiguous about the doctor's views on women. Most notably, Freud fails to recognize the compatible wit and intellect of his wife, Martha Bernays. 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