{"id":22234,"date":"2022-03-16T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22234"},"modified":"2022-03-09T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T17:38:29","slug":"nics-flicks-codas-passion-offsets-its-predictability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/03\/16\/nics-flicks-codas-passion-offsets-its-predictability\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic’s Flicks<\/em>: CODA<\/em>‘s passion offsets its predictability"},"content":{"rendered":"

CODA<\/i> (2021)
\n3\/4<\/p>\n

One great movie of many that have come out of this year\u2019s award season is Sian Heder\u2019s streaming sensation CODA<\/i>. This is a masterfully directed film about family, tolerance, and\u2014most importantly\u2014about love triumphing over all other obstacles.<\/p>\n

Based on the French film La Famille B\u00e9lier<\/i>, CODA<\/i> follows Ruby Rossi, a musician and the only person in her family who can hear. Throughout the film, we follow Rossi as she struggles to accomplish her dreams while at the same time being there for her family to help them with their daily struggles.<\/p>\n

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Nic’s Flicks<\/em> is a column about movies (photo by Nicolas Ihmels\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The main perk of this movie is Heder\u2019s writing and direction. This film is beautifully written and is full of rich character work, colourful humour, and captivating dramatic tension. Heder\u2019s direction is also well implemented. In fact, it\u2019s so masterful that it\u2019s hard to believe that this is only her second full-length feature film.<\/p>\n

Another thing that I really like is the acting. Emilia Jones is wonderful as Ruby\u2014this is one of those performances where you can just tell that she worked hard to be in this movie, and this type of passion is clearly shown throughout the film. Troy Kotsur is also really good here. He truly delivers an Oscar-worthy performance as Frank Rossi, a strong and loving father who fights to earn a living and provide for his family despite living in a society that has trouble with accommodating people\u2019s disabilities. (Kotsur\u2019s Oscar nod makes him the first deaf male actor in Oscar history to receive a nomination for an acting award, and only the second deaf actor to attain an Oscar nod.)<\/p>\n

The only thing that I was not a big fan of in CODA<\/i> was its predictability. Everything that happens in this movie the audience can see coming from a mile away. There is no real surprise twist, it\u2019s just a well-told story of a small-town girl struggling to find a balance between helping her family and achieving her dreams.<\/p>\n

Despite a rather predicable plot, CODA<\/i> is a true gem that successfully holds its own among other movies the Academy has showered their love on this Oscar season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CODA (2021) 3\/4 One great movie of many that have come out of this year\u2019s award season is Sian Heder\u2019s streaming sensation CODA. This is a masterfully directed film about family, tolerance, and\u2014most importantly\u2014about love triumphing over all other obstacles. Based on the French film La Famille B\u00e9lier, CODA follows Ruby Rossi, a musician and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-march-9-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22259,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234\/revisions\/22259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}