6.7
Viewer Rating
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Sound of Silence (2025)
Sound of Silence (2025)
Overview
Chinese legal drama directed by Li Wan, starring Tan Jianci as morally ambiguous lawyer Li Qi, born to deaf parents, who becomes entangled in a fraud scheme targeting the deaf community due to his greed. Co-starring Xiya Lan and Yanhui Wang.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
6.7
Overview
Chinese legal drama directed by Li Wan, starring Tan Jianci as morally ambiguous lawyer Li Qi, born to deaf parents, who becomes entangled in a fraud scheme targeting the deaf community due to his greed. Co-starring Xiya Lan and Yanhui Wang.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central conflict revolves around fraud targeting the deaf community, portraying exploitation of marginalized groups as a key societal issue that demands moral intervention and justice.
The film casts deaf actors in key deaf roles, promoting authentic disability representation. Its narrative critiques the exploitation of the deaf community, emphasizing themes of social responsibility and equity for marginalized groups.
Secondary
The film's legal thriller form intertwines CODA identity crisis with fraud intrigue, critiquing familial abandonment while affirming resilient deaf family bonds as a moral anchor. This endorsement of loyalty to biological roots over personal gain tips toward traditional values.
The film contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, offering no portrayal to assess for affirming, incidental, or problematic elements.
No transgender characters or themes feature in the film, which examines deaf community struggles via the arc of a ambitious lawyer confronting his heritage amid a exploitative legal case.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film presents original characters in a legal drama inspired by the experiences of a male lawyer from a deaf family, portrayed by male actors, with no alterations to established genders from historical or source material figures.
Sound of Silence draws from the experiences of Chinese lawyer Zhang Qi, a child of deaf adults, portrayed by Chinese actor Tan Jianci in a story set in China with no deviations in racial depictions from real-life inspirations.
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