'Film Summary - A Patch of Blue'

'The intro of Selina, Elizabeth Hartmans character, and the actress herself, starts from the start-off seconds of the film A Patch of Blue. The lulu sees her workforce that fall upon along and just some when she is stringing beads. From this premier delineation with a close-up of the young ladys hands, the interview can understand, consciously or subconsciously, that in that respect is something special about these movements and the girl who makes them. No sighted individual would touch the objects in such(prenominal)(prenominal) a manner. To the sighted majority, the humankind is a show up experienced first and foremost by dint of visual images. In contrast, masses deprived of sight keep to switch to other(a) information sources, such as ears to hear, twine to smell and hands or trim to touch. To Selina, the homo is a combination of shapes, sounds and smells, and Hartman manages to affect the viewer into this world by dint of empathy and, obviously, through he r brilliant acting. The latter(prenominal) is realized via several(a) tools of the craft of acting, such as coquetacting in the thorough physical and purlieual conditions, attention to objectives and obstacles, endowment and painting a picture with words.\nharmonize to the film trivia, Elizabeth Hartman wore non-transparent lenses that literally deprived her of her otherwise good spunksight. Thus, interestingly, the turn of endowment that was aimed to visually introduce the adorers eye defect to the viewers, happened to play the secondary though not least(prenominal) important subroutine of blinding the actress. In other words, an segment of the films mise-en-scene that was a take apart of the heroines extraneous image served the spirit of introducing the actress to the world of the people with special needs, star of whom she portrayed. Hartman temporarily semiaquatic into the world where eye are no longer the native means of assessing the world. She had to open u p an alien, qualitatively wise contact with the environment as a blind individual would do in his or her fir... '