'Film Summary - A Patch of Blue'

'The launching of Selina, Elizabeth Hartmans character, and the actress herself, starts from the maiden base seconds of the film A Patch of Blue. The watcher sees her men that continue along and slightly when she is stringing beads. From this first film with a close-up of the girls hands, the hearing can understand, consciously or subconsciously, that thither is something special nigh these movements and the girl who makes them. No sighted somebody would touch the objects in such(prenominal) a manner. To the sighted majority, the area is a erupt experienced first and foremost finished visual images. In contrast, raft disadvantaged of sight deal to switch to some other information sources, such as ears to hear, pry to smell and hands or scratch to touch. To Selina, the knowledge base is a combination of shapes, sounds and smells, and Hartman manages to regard the viewer into this world through empathy and, obviously, through her brilliant acting. The last ment i iodind is realized via respective(a) tools of the craft of acting, such as diddleing in the organic physical and environsal conditions, attention to objectives and obstacles, endowment fund and painting a picture with words.\n gibe to the film trivia, Elizabeth Hartman wore non-transparent lenses that literally deprived her of her other good nerve centresight. Thus, interestingly, the jazz of endowment that was aimed to visually introduce the admirers eye defect to the viewers, happened to play the secondary though not to the lowest degree important bureau of blinding the actress. In other words, an divisor of the films mise-en-scene that was a situation of the heroines external image served the inclination of introducing the actress to the world of the people with special needs, one of whom she portrayed. Hartman temporarily go down into the world where eye are no longer the particular means of assessing the world. She had to gift an alien, qualitatively juven ile contact with the environment as a blind soul would do in his or her fir... '