Blindsight is hugely affecting, the rare experience that will make those who watch it thankful for what they have, yet make them realize that they aren't nearly thankful enough.
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03/20/08
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:47
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: A powerful glimpse of the possibilities for transcendence in straightforward documentary filmmaking -- and extreme physical disability.
Theatrical Release:Mar 5, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount... [More]
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Reviews for Blindsight
The film overcomes its crude production values and awkward structuring. It stirs you.
03/14/08
Heartrending and full of complexity.
04/04/08
Blindsight is an undeniably engrossing, heart-tugging documentary, rightfully departing at critical intervals from heroics to simply extol the wonders of the spirit.
03/27/08
An accomplished work from documentarian Walker, who uses her battle-against-the odds story to illuminate how Tibetan society mistreats its blind citizens.
08/08/08
Coying and manipulative.
05/30/08
The film is often breathtakingly beautiful, and even as the students triumph over the naysayers, it's melancholy knowing they aren't sharing viewers' experiences of their starkly gorgeous world.
04/10/08
Visually stunning and emotionally moving, "Blindsight" is real joy through and through.
03/08/08
Lucy Walker's documentary is genuinely stirring.
08/08/08
It's doubtful whether even a dream team of Hollywood's best and brightest creative minds could have come up with a tale that's more fascinating or more inspirational than Blindsight.
04/10/08
Going beyond a chronicle of disabled (blind) children doing heroic things like climbing mountains, Walker's resonant docu juxtaposes different value systems of East vs. West, Europe Vs. America, Arduous Process vs. Goal Attainment.
03/10/08
Uplifting but never mawkish, and gorgeously shot.
07/31/08
Lucy Walker's observant film Blindsight is about profound East-West differences in the importance of journey versus destination and comradeship versus competition.
03/06/08
Top CriticAn astute, careful director, Walker provides a clear view of events without seeming to take sides.
03/06/08
If anyone tried to tell you a story about this climb and these kids, Blindsight is exactly what you'd think it should look like.
03/21/08
Lucy Walker’s documentary Blindsight is breathtaking twice over. It leaves the audience gasping like a landed guppy at views of snow-coddled Himalayan peaks under ice-blue skies.
08/08/08
Walker's documentary hails from the inspirational school of filmmaking, and graduates with honours.
09/23/06
Walker's ending is fudged both in terms of the narrative and the issues, and she seems to come down, a little feebly, on the "heartwarming" side of things. But what an amazing, and bizarre, story.
08/08/08
Blindsight is a film that not only every skeptical teen should be forced to swallow in the high school repertoire but also anyone in need of self-reflection in their lives should go and see.
04/10/08
How they managed the trek defies belief, but in an art-form where superpowers have become passé, it's a stirring reminder of what human powers, against the odds, can achieve.
08/08/08
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