Children of a Lesser God

00:38:12,503 --> 00:38:15,131 I'm really sick of you people 500 00:38:15,206 --> 00:38:17,140 coming here every few years 501 00:38:17,208 --> 00:38:18,641 asking the same questions, 502 00:38:18,710 --> 00:38:19,938 blaming me. 503 00:38:20,011 --> 00:38:21,672 God. No one's blaming you. 504 00:38:21,746 --> 00:38:24,874 Of course they are. They can't blame themselves. 505 00:38:24,949 --> 00:38:26,883 So, it's all my fault. 506 00:38:26,951 --> 00:38:30,614 Fine. I don't give a damn anymore. 507 00:38:30,688 --> 00:38:34,124 I really just came to ask one question. 508 00:38:34,192 --> 00:38:37,286 What happened when Sarah tried to speak? 509 00:38:38,796 --> 00:38:40,286 What happened? 510 00:38:40,365 --> 00:38:42,697 She looked awful. 511 00:38:42,767 --> 00:38:44,098 She sounded awful. 512 00:38:44,168 --> 00:38:47,763 People made fun of her. What do you think? 513 00:38:47,839 --> 00:38:49,830 Who made fun of her? 514 00:38:53,277 --> 00:38:54,505 Other kids. 515 00:38:54,579 --> 00:38:56,672 Her sister's friends. 516 00:39:02,153 --> 00:39:04,747 Then she stopped trying to talk. 517 00:39:06,658 --> 00:39:08,819 She's very pretty, you know. 518 00:39:08,893 --> 00:39:12,829 Her sister Ruth had a bunch of boys hanging around, 519 00:39:12,930 --> 00:39:15,330 and they started asking Sarah out 520 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,800 when she came home on weekends. 521 00:39:19,671 --> 00:39:21,935 It was wonderful for her. 522 00:39:24,175 --> 00:39:26,769 The boys really liked her. 523 00:39:26,844 --> 00:39:31,008 They treated her just like they treated Ruth... 524 00:39:31,082 --> 00:39:32,447 with respect. 525 00:39:32,517 --> 00:39:35,452 If you didn't know there was a problem, 526 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,488 you would've thought she's perfectly normal. 527 00:39:52,203 --> 00:39:53,227 Hi. 528 00:39:54,338 --> 00:39:56,465 It's true. I'm early today. 529 00:39:57,608 --> 00:39:59,075 No. Don't go. 530 00:39:59,143 --> 00:40:02,078 I wanted to talk to you, anyway. 531 00:40:02,146 --> 00:40:04,273 No. I want to hel... 532 00:40:04,348 --> 00:40:05,815 work with you. 533 00:40:05,883 --> 00:40:07,748 I understand that you're scared. 534 00:40:11,322 --> 00:40:13,483 I understand nothing. 535 00:40:15,593 --> 00:40:16,992 Sarah! Come back here. 536 00:40:17,061 --> 00:40:18,153 Sarah. 537 00:40:18,229 --> 00:40:21,164 Yelling at the back of a deaf person. 538 00:40:21,232 --> 00:40:22,631 Very good, James. 539 00:40:22,734 --> 00:40:25,100 He's been at all the best schools. 540 00:40:39,817 --> 00:40:42,547 Why did you stop going home? 541 00:40:44,522 --> 00:40:47,855 Did your sister's friends, 542 00:40:47,925 --> 00:40:50,485 those boys that you were going out with, 543 00:40:50,561 --> 00:40:53,291 did they have anything to do with it? 544 00:40:57,135 --> 00:41:00,002 Yes. I talked to your mother. 545 00:41:00,071 --> 00:41:03,837 Please, let me help you, damn it! 546 00:41:03,908 --> 00:41:05,000 How? 547 00:41:05,076 --> 00:41:08,011 By showing you the joys of sex 548 00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:09,478 with a hearing man? 549 00:41:09,547 --> 00:41:12,414 I think that's one language you don't speak. 550 00:41:15,186 --> 00:41:17,017 Yeah, O.K. I'm so... 551 00:41:17,088 --> 00:41:19,420 Come on. I can take it. 552 00:41:21,092 --> 00:41:24,027 You have more than enough communication skills. 553 00:41:24,095 --> 00:41:26,029 <i>I don't. They never did?</i> 554 00:41:26,097 --> 00:41:27,189 O.K. 555 00:41:27,265 --> 00:41:28,323 [Stamps Floor] 556 00:41:28,399 --> 00:41:29,491 Hey! 557 00:41:29,567 --> 00:41:30,966 <i>Who is they?</i> 558 00:41:33,004 --> 00:41:34,266 Hearing boys? 559 00:41:35,740 --> 00:41:38,607 They could never be bothered to learn my language. 560 00:41:39,210 --> 00:41:41,804 I was always expected to learn to speak. 561 00:41:41,879 --> 00:41:43,904 Well, I don't speak. 562 00:41:43,981 --> 00:41:46,916 Sex was always something I could do 563 00:41:46,984 --> 00:41:48,918 as well as hearing girls. 564 00:41:48,986 --> 00:41:50,578 Better! 565 00:42:11,375 --> 00:42:14,902 At first, I let them have me 566 00:42:14,979 --> 00:42:16,503 because they wanted to. 567 00:42:21,986 --> 00:42:25,387 Before long, the boys were lined up 568 00:42:25,456 --> 00:42:30,758 on a waiting list my sister kept for me. 569 00:42:38,936 --> 00:42:41,302 No introduction, no talk. 570 00:42:44,742 --> 00:42:49,202 Just went to a dark place and... 571 00:43:09,767 --> 00:43:13,635 They didn't even take me out for a Coke first. 572 00:43:21,412 --> 00:43:25,041 That's not what I wanted to know about you. 573 00:43:26,183 --> 00:43:28,743 I thought I was such a big deal... 574 00:43:28,819 --> 00:43:31,754 coming on to the deaf girl, givi