Film Summary - A Patch of Blue

The introduction of Selina, Elizabeth Hartmans character, and the actress herself, starts from the start seconds of the film A substancepatch of Blue. The attestant sees her hands that pass away along and around when she is stringing beads. From this firstborn scene with a close-up of the missys hands, the audience croupe understand, consciously or subconsciously, that on that point is something special about these movements and the fille who makes them. No sighted some unrivalled would touch the objects in such(prenominal)(prenominal) a manner. To the sighted majority, the orbit is a place experience first and foremost done visual images. In contrast, raft disadvantaged of sight carry to switch to other education sources, such as ears to hear, prise to smell and hands or skin to touch. To Selina, the knowledge base is a combination of shapes, sounds and smells, and Hartman manages to involve the viewer into this human race done empathy and, obviously, through h er brilliant acting. The latter is realized via various tools of the craft of acting, such as performing in the extreme physical and environmental conditions, attention to objectives and obstacles, endowment and icon a picture with words.\n jibe to the film trivia, Elizabeth Hartman wore non-transparent lenses that literally deprived her of her otherwise good eyesight. Thus, interestingly, the reduce of endowment that was aimed to visually publish the protagonists eye defect to the viewers, happened to play the secondary though not to the lowest degree important role of blinding the actress. In other words, an part of the films mise-en-scene that was a part of the heroines outer 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 longer the primary style of assessing the world. She had to establish an alien, qualitatively newborn contact with the environment as a blind somebody would do in his or her fir...