Deaf representation in cinema has shifted from CODA and Riz Ahmed helmed Sound of Metal framing music as the antithesis to our lived experience, then I am perfectly happy with that. It’s suggested this traumatic event is responsible for the Boy being “deaf and mute” – not words I’d use to describe him, mind, though it’s a tricky one to unpack. There’s also moments – such as when Boy gets a pep talk from