Just finished watching this and, it wasn't bad at all. By no means great, but certainly passable.
One can only imagine how disorienting it must be for someone to be 'newly' blind and as such this film does make you think to an extent. I liked how we saw things as she imagined them, only for the perception to change to reality. It emphasises just how much we do rely on our sight to identify and recognise and the struggles newly blinded people would have identifying this new world.
The one part of the film where it completely lost me was the ending. Once she'd managed to rejoin the real world, we skip forward 6 months and she's about to perform a concert... Well, what happened in those 6 months?? Presumably she contacted Police? Clayton was arrested, tried and convicted?? She must surely have gone to the Hospital to have her eyes properly checked over? It's an odd way to end the film, there's no real closure on what had happened to her. Clayton's obsession makes little sense. How old was he when his father locked him in the basement? He's at least the same age as Ellen and she stopped playing because of her Husband. How long ago? Is there a market for solo Classical Violin even?? I mean she's obviously had a recording contract of some kind too, so she'll have an agent, Manager...the works. Where were these people while all this was going on? Were Police searching for her??
There's so many unanswered and indeed unasked questions in this film. It's worth a watch, the lead actress does a fine job, as do the rest of the cast, but there's just too many loose ends which are never addressed.
The one part of the film where it completely lost me was the ending. Once she'd managed to rejoin the real world, we skip forward 6 months and she's about to perform a concert... Well, what happened in those 6 months?? Presumably she contacted Police? Clayton was arrested, tried and convicted?? She must surely have gone to the Hospital to have her eyes properly checked over? It's an odd way to end the film, there's no real closure on what had happened to her. Clayton's obsession makes little sense. How old was he when his father locked him in the basement? He's at least the same age as Ellen and she stopped playing because of her Husband. How long ago? Is there a market for solo Classical Violin even?? I mean she's obviously had a recording contract of some kind too, so she'll have an agent, Manager...the works. Where were these people while all this was going on? Were Police searching for her??
There's so many unanswered and indeed unasked questions in this film. It's worth a watch, the lead actress does a fine job, as do the rest of the cast, but there's just too many loose ends which are never addressed.