"See The Person"

2 October 2022

2 mins

A truthful vision.

This immensely moving film offers a very different perspective on the issue of blindness. It provides a poignant reminder that every individual who loses their site will have had to make extraordinary adjustments to their life, and come to terms with a new existence providing them with endless challenges and difficulties.

The young woman at the centre of the film is clearly driven to the brink of despair by the enormity of what lies ahead as she recognises that one day she will not be able to see at all. Director Jesse Lewis-Reece captures this with a sensitive level of drama, enabling the audience to really empathise with her plight. Her journey reaches a nadir as her whitened knuckles tighten on the rail of a balcony and we sense the depths of her agony.

It was courageous of the RNIB to back this depiction of blindness, as their communication usually leans towards a positive assessment of sight loss, and DAVID suspects that the organisation might have had concerns about this more despairing approach. But Adam Jackson and Ted Price's script, in the hands of Lewis-Reece, actually delivers a greater level of emotional warmth precisely because it is honest about how it must feel to face the future without being able to see.

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