If a surgery existed to grant hearing to your deaf child, would you have it performed? If you answered "yes" immediately, chances are you have your own hearing. For Sound And Fury, director Josh Aronson spent two years following the families of two brothers, both of whom face the decision of whether to allow their children to partake in the still relatively new procedure of cochlear implant surgery. (Or subject them to it; the language of the issue, itself tied heavily to the divide between English and American Sign Language, comes loaded.) Chris can hear, as can his wife, but one of their twin sons was born without hearing. They decide without much deliberation to opt for the surgery. His brother, Peter, is deaf, as is his wife and all three of their children. A proud proponent of deaf culture, he has never considered implant surgery anything but an insult to deaf people, a sort of cultural imperialism that devalues deafness. When their oldest child, Heather, expresses an interest in the surgery, however, they're forced to rethink their positions. The arguments that follow begin eloquently, then become heated, their lines drawn almost precisely along the divide between the deaf and the hearing participants. With only the occasional intrusion of emotional music, Aronson lets his participants sort matters out for themselves, in the process revealing the larger questions raised by the procedure. For the deaf, it's an issue of identity that transcends the issue of disability. With fear and sadness, Peter imagines a future in which deaf people no longer exist, and it's hard not to make the leap between deaf culture and other groups that struggle to maintain identity while making their way in mainstream America. That his brother's son might never sign and know nothing of his deaf heritage causes him horror. At the same time, the film makes it hard not to marvel at the procedure itself, the results of which, for many, fall just short of miraculous. More than an insightful examination of a single issue, Sound And Fury offers a revealing look at a culture torn between tradition and technology.