As a way of passing the early lazy days of a new academic session and being unable to quit the habit from the last holidays, I have been watching a lot of english movies these days. Some are action movies while some are fiction. But the kind that are mostly made and are hard to get are the good "romantic" ones. I wish i could be a child once more to enjoy movies like i did while watching the legendary "Titanic" - I simply soaked up every bit of the movie with all my mind and body, and remember it till date. Its only with an uncomplicated and curious mind of a child that you can get lost in a good movie! We like them so much because they not only give us dreams to live for but also they touch a special cord in our hearts which we never disclose or share, because it is so vulnerable- "melancholy". These movies do not just portray a mythical yet extremely desirable situation when you get all that you ever wanted from your lover, but it gives us hopes: something that we desperately search all our lives at every step. They hold up a mirror infront of our face when we secretly admit to being what we see in it.
Above all, you have to lay your hats off to the Hollywood people because they have the talent and the creativity to dig out classical novels and quality actors and directors to make up a good picture. The movie that i particulary wnat to dicuss is from 1999, named "At First Sight". An upclass urbane architecture,Amy, who also happens to be a 1 year divorcee, falls in love with a "blind" country masseur, Virgil, who lives with his elder sister Jennie. She experiances a whole new perspective to life through his mind's vision; she feels important, she feels complete, and she feels happy! He listens to the rain by hearing it pattering on the glass roof, dropping in the puddle and gurgling through the rain-pipes. His sesitivity touches her.
She finds out that recent development in catract surgery can offer a possibility of restoring Virgil's eyesight through an experimental operation. She asks him if he wanted to go ahead with the doctors, but he is turned off at the idea, thinking that she didn't like him for what he was. Virgil's very caring sister explains to her that since thier father left him Virgil secretly blames himself for being the reason to it; beacuse he let his father down and could not live up to his expectations after much trying. He finally agrees to get the sugery, only to not let go of Amy, and his sight is regained, but very little. After a brief period of being able to see, when he sees alot of things- including some very beautiful and nasty things of life, he falls back into darkness agian. He gets angry at being put through so much and not being able to make Amy happy. This whole time she kept saying that come what may but she will never give up on him, but when they could see that all their efforts were going down the drain, she was heart-wrenched. That made it clear to him that she could not accept him as a blind person that he was, and so he left. Later, being alone for a long time, she realised that she needed him and so came back to him to take life as it was.
This movie talks about faith- in believeing in something even if you cannot see it, like the horizon; you can see it from far but you cannot touch it. It shows that if we used our senses the right way, we can feel how beautiful the nature around us is. Being disabled with with one sense organ actually makes us more sensible and open to our surroundings. The story tells us to be brave enough to listen to our heart; it may apparently seem difficult but may have what we desperately seeked hidden as a prize to be discovered within the challenge. Its about feeling others' emotions, especially disabled people, for whom its embarassing if you try to change them as it actually makes them feel inferior. Actually its not just about handicapped people, its that there are flaws in all of us, some permanent, but we can still enjoy life fully if we utilised what we already have! Its also about knowing our own selves- what we really want, like Amy wanted love, attention, importance, affection, sensitivity in her companion, but she also wanted Virgil to not be blind; there was something in him that she did not like. And how much we are ready to sacrifice for what we want.We try to snatch a bit of joy, realxation and comfort in our very busy and strangling life through expensive means, but the thing that can calm our senses and rejuvinate our minds with gentle happiness is what we already have- the gift of this beautiful world, and its free of cost too; all you need is the mind's eye !
Above all, you have to lay your hats off to the Hollywood people because they have the talent and the creativity to dig out classical novels and quality actors and directors to make up a good picture. The movie that i particulary wnat to dicuss is from 1999, named "At First Sight". An upclass urbane architecture,Amy, who also happens to be a 1 year divorcee, falls in love with a "blind" country masseur, Virgil, who lives with his elder sister Jennie. She experiances a whole new perspective to life through his mind's vision; she feels important, she feels complete, and she feels happy! He listens to the rain by hearing it pattering on the glass roof, dropping in the puddle and gurgling through the rain-pipes. His sesitivity touches her.
She finds out that recent development in catract surgery can offer a possibility of restoring Virgil's eyesight through an experimental operation. She asks him if he wanted to go ahead with the doctors, but he is turned off at the idea, thinking that she didn't like him for what he was. Virgil's very caring sister explains to her that since thier father left him Virgil secretly blames himself for being the reason to it; beacuse he let his father down and could not live up to his expectations after much trying. He finally agrees to get the sugery, only to not let go of Amy, and his sight is regained, but very little. After a brief period of being able to see, when he sees alot of things- including some very beautiful and nasty things of life, he falls back into darkness agian. He gets angry at being put through so much and not being able to make Amy happy. This whole time she kept saying that come what may but she will never give up on him, but when they could see that all their efforts were going down the drain, she was heart-wrenched. That made it clear to him that she could not accept him as a blind person that he was, and so he left. Later, being alone for a long time, she realised that she needed him and so came back to him to take life as it was.
This movie talks about faith- in believeing in something even if you cannot see it, like the horizon; you can see it from far but you cannot touch it. It shows that if we used our senses the right way, we can feel how beautiful the nature around us is. Being disabled with with one sense organ actually makes us more sensible and open to our surroundings. The story tells us to be brave enough to listen to our heart; it may apparently seem difficult but may have what we desperately seeked hidden as a prize to be discovered within the challenge. Its about feeling others' emotions, especially disabled people, for whom its embarassing if you try to change them as it actually makes them feel inferior. Actually its not just about handicapped people, its that there are flaws in all of us, some permanent, but we can still enjoy life fully if we utilised what we already have! Its also about knowing our own selves- what we really want, like Amy wanted love, attention, importance, affection, sensitivity in her companion, but she also wanted Virgil to not be blind; there was something in him that she did not like. And how much we are ready to sacrifice for what we want.We try to snatch a bit of joy, realxation and comfort in our very busy and strangling life through expensive means, but the thing that can calm our senses and rejuvinate our minds with gentle happiness is what we already have- the gift of this beautiful world, and its free of cost too; all you need is the mind's eye !
