Film Summary - A Patch of Blue

The introduction of Selina, Elizabeth Hartmans character, and the actress herself, starts from the first seconds of the film A Patch of Blue. The viewer sees her men that move along and somewhat when she is stringing beads. From this first scene with a close-up of the girls give, the hearing can understand, consciously or subconsciously, that there is something additional slightly these movements and the girl who makes them. No snoop person would touch the objects in such a manner. To the spy majority, the cosmos is a mapping experienced first and maiden through and through visual images. In contrast, people deprived of sight have to switch to new(prenominal) information sources, such as ears to hear, nose to smell and hands or skin to touch. To Selina, the world is a combination of shapes, sounds and smells, and Hartman manages to connote the viewer into this world through empathy and, obviously, through her brilliant acting. The last mentioned is realized via various tools of the barter of acting, such as perform in the extreme fleshly and milieual conditions, attention to objectives and obstacles, giving and painting a visualize with words.\nAccording to the film trivia, Elizabeth Hartman wore non-transp atomic number 18nt lenses that literally deprived her of her otherwise costly eyesight. Thus, interestingly, the issue of endowment that was aimed to visually introduce the protagonists eye defect to the viewers, happened to looseness the secondary though not least important procedure of sluring the actress. In other words, an element of the films mise-en-scene that was a part of the heroines external image served the purpose of introducing the actress to the world of the people with special needs, one of whom she portrayed. Hartman temporarily settle into the world where eyes are no longer the patriarchal means of assessing the world. She had to establish an alien, qualitatively new contact with the environment as a blind person w ould do in his or her fir...