Disability media recommendation: A Quiet Place (2018 film)!
Disability-focused/centric: sort of. The movie isn't technically about deafness, but one of the main character's deafness is a large part of the story.
Created by a disabled person/people: the actor who plays the deaf character is Deaf and there was another person on set to make sure the signing was accurate.
Disability represented: deafness
Fiction or non-fiction: fiction
A Quiet Place is about the Abbott family trying to survive in a world where monsters that hunt by sound exist. One of them is 15 year old Regan Abbott, a deaf girl. Regan is one of the two main characters. ASL is used for the vast majority of the dialogue.
Trigger warnings: ableism (including internalised ableism), birth, blood, body horror, child endangerment, death (including child death), fire (safe, contained, and intentional), gun & shooting, jumpscares, loud noises, murder, near suffocation, pregnancy, and suicide. Also at one point in the movie, some lights change colour from yellow to red; this is important to the plot, but might not be accessible to some colourblind viewers.
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As I mentioned, they use ASL for the vast majority of dialogue, and English is only used when d/Deaf people are not present or in simcom. Although it's not my language, it's nice to see some Deaf people's language represented. Edit: I have been informed that some of the ASL is incorrect. Sad face.
Regan's deafness isn't shown as something bad or something to fix. Two of the characters are ableist/audist but, in my opinion, the story itself isn't.
