Monday, May 29, 2006

At First Sight

At first sight

Need to do a proper reivew. But, should have done just after watching it, if I wanted anything remotely close to a proper one.

I invite people to review this movie, if you have seen it.

similar movies:
Awakenings
I have seen another one which was on Hallmark channel, TV; which I can't remember now. It was about a girl having similar medical condition as Robert De Niro in the Awakenings; she gets a chance. lives her life for a short time. loses to the medical condition again. update: It was Molly

At First sight supercedes the other two, may be just for me, as it gave me the first time sight into the world of the blind getting their sight for the first time. How the distances confuse them, how the sizes confuse them, how suddenly they lose the skills to smell and identify.... At first sight a must see movie, if you get a chance.

Surprisingly some of the scenes are simply same as in Raaja paarvai. If Raaja parvai wasn't made in 1981, as At First Sight was made in 1999, we would have simply said that Kamal lifted the scenes from AFS movie. It is unlikely that Irwin Winkler, the director of At First Sight, lifted some scenes from Raaja paarvai. Or did he?

I would watch if I haven't.

(Actually I picked this movies over my fav. detective/murder movies only because I thought it is a romantic movie, the name suggested it, the plot diguised me.., After that some heavy discussion over love/romantic theme and stuff, the idea of watching a romantic movie was favoured over my otherwise normally favourite choices. Although it was not exactly a romantic movie, although it does have the element of love and such stuff in there, it was the world of the blind and the technical approach of the idea of the blind getting his first sight, well that is the theme of the movie,... well, the idea of the movie that got me hooked to it. In the beginning of the movie I thought the movie was going too fast ignoring the important moments their deserved significance, but later I got the idea why was it like that. Val Kilmer justfies the role.)

2 Comments:

Blogger Dadoji said...

Yes, Val Kilmer is very good in AFS. I don't remember the movie vividly and have seen it only in patches so cannot comment much.

Have you seen "The Horse Whisperer" ?

7:27 AM  
Blogger Premalatha said...

The Horse Whisperer
added to the list. My Left Foot too. :)

8:33 AM  

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