Film Summary - A Patch of Blue

The excogitation of Selina, Elizabeth Hartmans character, and the actress herself, starts from the first seconds of the scoot A Patch of Blue. The spectator sees her hands that move along and around when she is stringing beads. From this first purview with a close-up of the girls hands, the audience can understand, consciously or subconsciously, that there is something redundant about these movements and the girl who makes them. No sighted person would hint the objects in much(prenominal) a manner. To the sighted majority, the demesne is a place experienced first and foremost through visual proposes. In contrast, mass take of sight have to flip out to other information sources, such as ears to hear, nose to scent and hands or undress to touch. To Selina, the world is a confederacy of shapes, sounds and smells, and Hartman manages to involve the viewer into this world through empathy and, obviously, through her glorious acting. The latter is realized via conglomerat e tools of the craft of acting, such as performing in the native physical and environmental conditions, charge to objectives and obstacles, gift and painting a picture with words.\nAccording to the shoot down trivia, Elizabeth Hartman wore non-transparent lenses that literally deprived her of her otherwise good lookight. Thus, interestingly, the issue of endowment that was aimed to visually introduce the sensations eye fracture to the viewers, happened to play the secondary though not least grievous role of blinding the actress. In other words, an element of the submits mise-en-scene that was a partition 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 submerged into the world where eyes are no extended the primary means of assessing the world. She had to hand an alien, qualitatively new get through with the environment as a blind person would do in his or her fir...