For the life of me... I just can't figure out why the title is called "Children of a Lesser God." I don't remember any reference to God... or feeling being left out... or any clue that would make me say, "oohhhhh---"
Because for me, something like "the Language of Love" would make more sense (although... it is much more corny.)
So what's the meaning of the title?
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You're Not dumb to ask this question!
In the play it is actually communicated that these deaf folks are made to feel that they must be "children of a lesser god" because they can't hear, just like Dusty D says. The line was cut from the filmed version, so it's never made clear about the title.
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how old are you? maybe you should stick with disney films where you are spoon fed.
shareJquick...the asker was humbly asking a question. This is, in part, what message boards are for. I get so sick of bullies on here making assumptions about a persons taste in movies based on a question or comment.
shareVery interesting..
I've always though the same way about this film for a more or less different reason. It wasn't until some time ago I actually came to know that the original title is Children of a Lesser God. In general I usually think this movie as its Finnish translated title Sanaton rakkaus.
In English that would mean Speechless Love (or something of that kind).
I thought it would be The Unspoken Love? That refers to a love that need not be mentioned.
OP, The title of the film comes from the twelfth chapter of Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Idylls of the King." The stanza which contains the line that inspired the title reads as follows:
I found Him in the shining of the stars,
I marked Him in the flowering of His fields,
But in His ways with men I find Him not.
I waged His wars, and now I pass and die.
O me! for why is all around us here
As if some lesser god had made the world,
But had not force to shape it as he would,
Till the High God behold it from beyond,
And enter it, and make it beautiful?
Or else as if the world were wholly fair,
But that these eyes of men are dense and dim,
And have not power to see it as it is:
Perchance, because we see not to the close;—
For I, being simple, thought to work His will,
And have but stricken with the sword in vain;
And all whereon I leaned in wife and friend
Is traitor to my peace, and all my realm
Reels back into the beast, and is no more.
My God, thou hast forgotten me in my death;
Nay — God my Christ — I pass but shall not die.
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