Pantene Commercial

In this extraordinary Pantene commercial, a deaf girl has such a strong desire to play her violin. She is always practicing because she really wants to play that violin. Even though she is merciliessy mocked by her peers, she keeps on playing to try and improve her skill because it is something she truly loves. Throughout this whole commercial, I felt bad for this deaf girl because she was tormented just because she was deaf and she wanted to do something that she loved. I felt bad that she had to deal with this disability, but I was also felt proud of her at the end of the commercial. After her weeks of practicing and nearly quitting, she entered a competition and amazed the whole audience.

What amazed me about her performance was that her violin was so beat up from her peers torturing her and ruining her violin, that her violin would have made little to no sound, and the sound that it would have made would have been a loud, horrible sound. I was amazed by the audience, as well. The audience gave this girl a roaring, standing ovation once she was done her performance. This ovation was started by the claps of a single man in the front row. This surprised me because just by looking at her, the audience did not know she was deaf and that she was bullied, but yet they applauded her like they had seen the beginning of the commercial, or like they knew all about her life and how she got to that performance. I think this might have been part of the point of the commercial. Pantene might have been showing how it was like to live with a disability, and how people have to fight through it and shine, but they also might have been showing that people with disabilities might not be able to see the beauty, or 'shine' in themselves, so they might need the help of kind others to sow them that they can be great, and that they can shine.