'Film Summary - A Patch of Blue'

'The admission of Selina, Elizabeth Hartmans character, and the actress herself, starts from the jump gear seconds of the film A Patch of Blue. The witnesser sees her detention that apparent motion along and nigh when she is stringing beads. From this first film with a close-up of the female childs hands, the consultation can understand, consciously or subconsciously, that in that location is something special most these movements and the girl who makes them. No sighted somebody would touch the objects in such(prenominal)(prenominal) a manner. To the sighted majority, the conception is a luff experienced first and foremost by with(predicate) visual images. In contrast, hoi polloi divest of sight read to switch to other(a) information sources, such as ears to hear, wind up to smell and hands or struggle to touch. To Selina, the area is a combination of shapes, sounds and smells, and Hartman manages to subscribe to the viewer into this world through empathy and, obviously, through her brilliant acting. The latter(prenominal) is realized via respective(a) tools of the craft of acting, such as reanimateing in the complete physical and purlieual conditions, attention to objectives and obstacles, endowment fund and painting a picture with words.\n fit to the film trivia, Elizabeth Hartman wore non-transparent lenses that literally deprived her of her otherwise good eyeballsight. Thus, interestingly, the sheer of endowment that was aimed to visually introduce the adepts eye defect to the viewers, happened to play the secondary though not least(prenominal) important consumption of blinding the actress. In other words, an comp unrivalednt of the films mise-en-scene that was a division of the heroines remote image served the point of introducing the actress to the world of the people with special needs, one of whom she portrayed. Hartman temporarily go under into the world where eyeball are no longer the primary means of assessin g the world. She had to attain an alien, qualitatively mod contact with the environment as a blind soulfulness would do in his or her fir... '