Richard Pimentel's Life Portrayed In The Film Music Within

Richard Pimentel’s biography portrayed in the movie Music Within (2007), brought light again into the public’s eyes, after 17 years of The ADA (The Americans for Disabilities Act) becoming a reality in the United States. This light is the awareness of how we should remember how to acknowledge each other every day as human beings that feel.
Therefore, you (reader) and I will go through Richard Pimentel’s life, mirroring some of what I consider the most touching scenes with our feelings, and waking up our awareness into deeper meanings that the film has to offer. I hope you will find some connections, let the words behind my words speak to you.
Synopsis:
After an attack while serving in Vietnam Richard Pimentel became deaf (severe tinnitus).
Richard, the protagonist and the world around him are described through a cynical, funnier and positive view despite all the personal, social/ historical and tragic conditions which evokes a feeling of empathy rather than pity.

The film begins with Richard’s family on a heart breaking road to parenthood; they are struggling through seven miscarriages and Richard’s mother depression state and loss of way in life, despite Richard’s successful birth. While Richard’s character refers to his birth as a hard one, a strong image comes about, a Close up of a baby’s red face with the cord around his neck. The song “you are nobody ‘til somebody loves you” speaks through this image creating a connection with the mood and development of his childhood, setting precedence about his relationships in the course of his life.

Before the age of nine, Richard describes his life’s career choice as being a hero. A warmth image of him with a cape and a pull-wagon playing on a sidewalk arouses a common feeling of greatness within us, a connection with our true self. However, his kryptonite (weakness) was
His parents got divorced. He was passed between them like a trophy and finally forced to live with his mother. An image of the child being pushed side to side by his parents evokes in us feelings of coldness, sadness, rejection, vulnerability and solitude regardless of the comical scene.

However, the best he had in his life was his father. The most vibrant memory of him was his race, Chinese. The close up image of his father while working in his food store evokes the beauty of diversity through a kind of awe coming from his physical appearance. Richard father’s death was caused by falling from a ladder when a soya sauce barrel fell on him. This strong comical image reaffirms the continuous traces of pain, suffering, misfortune, lost and lack of love in Richard’s life.

All these moments mentioned above and the ones that I will describe now are building a background scenario allowing us to observe, how chaotic Richard’s earlier years were around his family. The following strong image is received by the audience, a close up of Richard’s mother sleeping on a birthday table while Richard checks her pulse. Richard’s mother has an incessant depressive behavior and sleeping pills abuse due to all her miscarriages; Through Richard’s character we realize he doesn’t have anyone that cares for him, but even so he has a strong will and a dream than later