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I believed in their beloved. I cared for their dear. I feared for their love.
I loved this movie. I adored it; I felt it was one of the more genuinely touching and real love stories that I had seen in a long, long time and fifty-fifty now, more twenty-iv hours since I saw it for the starting time, and I hope you, *not* last time, I am still haunted by its emotional ability and how it drew me in with its passion. Inspired by a true story and starring a very real role player and a very real actress, "At Kickoff Sight" touched my heartstrings and yanked on them all the fashion through. It also contained a very humanistic touch apart from its romantic elements, 1 that I think everybody can capeesh in ane style or another.
Every bit the pic opens, Amy Benic (Mira Sorvino) an overworked architect is essentially booted out of her office and sent to the wintertime land countryside resort on a vacation past her co-workers. During her stay there, she befriends a blind therapist (Val Kilmer) with whom she begins a slowly-developing romantic bond. Despite his condition, they grow closer to each other and go passionately devoted, upwards to and past a surgery that they hope can restore his eyesight.
"At First Sight" is a fictionalized adaptation of Shirl and Barbara Jennings, a couple who passionately loved each other even though the erstwhile was completely bullheaded. Their story was documented by Dr. Oliver Sacks. Adapted from his business relationship by Steve Levitt and directed by Irwin Winkler, the motion-picture show becomes a powerfully dramatic love story that contains so much of that real-life passion from the people that inspired it.
Information technology is easy to criticize "At First Sight" for being too conventional, too derivative of other Hollywood dearest stories. Just I don't call back this movie falls nether those categories and those type of films, such every bit "Hope Floats." Starting time of all, sometimes it's not about plot twists or breaking the mold. Sometimes, a movie can strike with just as much ability (or more, every bit in this instance) simply by utilizing those conventions and building upon them in a way that is fresh. And they do that here. The two cardinal characters are very well-written, characterized equally thinking, caring human being beings who beloved and hunger for each other. A commendable move on the filmmakers' part was the casting. Instead of placing the typical romantic leads, who are more body than personality, they cast two very real performances. Gifted and skilful-looking as they are, Mr. Kilmer and Ms Sorvino, I've always felt, were very real. They aren't merely putting on a convincing act, they transition something very real into their performances and you tin can sense that. And as a defining case, I want to cite the scene in hither that I normally gripe about: the sex scene. Whereas with virtually erotic scenes in movies, I tend to go the feeling that my time is being wasted, or that the director is losing faith in his ain motion-picture show and using a cheap gimmick to stimulate my interest, I did non feel that here. There is a brief and very visceral erotic moment betwixt Mr. Kilmer and Ms Sorvino - and I know people are going to start laughing at this point - and I did non get a negative reaction because this scene was not lustful. I wasn't thinking about the sex, I wasn't fifty-fifty thinking about Ms Sorvino's trunk. I was thinking about the passion and the love that was emanating from this scene. Here comes the one that I'yard sure will get the biggest laugh notwithstanding.
I was not turned on; I was moved.
That's the core of what I loved this movie. Dissimilar so many of those contrived excuses of honey stories that I see in so many movies, I *believed* in the honey between these two characters. I was convinced they were two people who adored each other. I believed in their honey, I cared for their love, I feared for their love. Merely what too makes the movie so proficient is the way the subject matter of blindness is treated. I imagine that for some, seeing or merely knowing about the subject matter of this motion picture can be a comforting reminder that lack of eyesight is not lack of humanity. For me, it was a reminder of but how thankful I am to non only accept my eyesight, simply my health. These two very authentic emotional elements stirred a great passion in me as I watched the motion-picture show and kept me in play clear to the end.
Tin I criticize anything in the movie? Well, yeah, two brusk moments. One was a super-fast zoom upon Val Kilmer'southward eyes accompanied by a whooshing sound event. The other was a spring cut montage of Ms Sorvino imitating emotions. These two scenes were a little out of identify and seemed to exist from other movies. But information technology's a two hr and nine infinitesimal movie and these ii $.25 add upwards to, what, less than a minute? You do the math.
"At First Sight" is a wonderful movie with a strong emotional chord. Mr. Kilmer and Ms Sorvino are admittedly wonderful, as are the underrated Kelly McGillis as the jealous, troubled sister, Bruce Davison as the optimistic surgeon, Nathan Lane every bit the unorthodox and deliberately comical vision therapist, and Steven Weber as the lascivious fellow builder. It's an incredibly touching love story that I'm telling you lot, I cannot be satisfied with later just a first sight. I'm going to need at least two more than before I could peradventure even come close to beingness too familiar with this genuine picayune jewel of a move picture show.
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Loved it!
I've been a nurse for twenty years, and have been around many patients who must contend daily with what "normal" people would consider to exist adversities and handicaps. I've always looked upon them with (1) bully adoration for their personal strength and decision, and (2) a pervading sense of sorrow and an aching heart, for their "misfortune" in having been denied the opportunity to interact in the earth with the benefit of an intact, healthy body.
This moving picture actually struck an emotional chord with me, and fabricated me realize how my feelings for these `unfortunates' could be construed equally condescending and insensitive. I've often wished that I had the power to "heal" the handicapped, or to make them whole and "normal." The idea that they could feel totally satisfied, consummate, and happy, despite their limitations -- and that it is presumptuous of us to think otherwise -- was intelligently brought to calorie-free in this screenplay.
This film is based upon a true story of a man who had come up to terms with his incomprehension, and who, instead of wallowing in bitterness and self-compassion, had learned to apply his remaining senses of hearing, touch, smell, and taste -- along with a delightful sense of sense of humor -- to become a happy, positive, and resourceful human being, with a not bad sensitivity toward -- and appreciation of -- the globe and the people effectually him. This is very much like handicapped patients I have cared for through the years, who left me in wonder at their strikingly positive attitudes and warmth toward humanity, despite the obstacles they confront on a daily basis.
One of the reasons that I enjoy Val Kilmer's performances then much, is that he has the uncanny ability to capture the subtlest nuances of the characters he is portraying, whether information technology'south Virgil, Doc Holliday, Jim Morrison, etc., and then is willing to blank his soul to bring the function to fruition for public enjoyment/critique. Information technology's a risky, daring, thing to practice -- and I applaud him for his backbone! I capeesh the endeavour he makes to hone his performances by extensively researching the people and situations he is contracted to portray, instead of just showing up on the fix, spewing his lines, picking up the paycheck, and moving on. His portrayal of a blind man was COMPLETELY believable, and I forgot for two hours that he was a sighted actor playing a part. One reviewer criticized him for smiling too much when his character interacted with people. I accept to enquire whether that person has ever watched Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles or Jose Feliciano, while they are interacting in social situations. Kilmer nailed this office, and beautifully expressed the gamut of emotions experienced by Virgil in the transformations that took identify in his life.
Other issues that have been mentioned by reviewers: (1) -- A supposed `lack of chemistry' between Kilmer and Sorvino – I have to wonder if we were watching the same moving picture! (two) -- Yes -- as a warning to households with young children -- there is nudity, just their intimate scenes were enacted beautifully, with sensitivity and tenderness; there was aught raunchy or sensationalistic about them. Even so, some might take crime at the scene in the strip lodge – information technology wasn't essential to the plot evolution, and could have been omitted. (three) -- The only `bad linguistic communication' in the film were rare, scattered expletives, which conveyed the understandable frustration of the main graphic symbol when he was confronted with overwhelming emotions and tribulations, and (four) – the scene of confrontation between Virgil and his begetter, which some people thought unnecessary, but which I felt was very appropriate, since their human relationship and the male parent'southward abandonment of the family had been such traumatic, devastating events in Virgil's life.
This moving-picture show is an emotional roller-coaster ride, but WELL worth the trip – LOVED it! :o)
P.Due south. – If yous haven't seen Kilmer as Doc Holliday in `Tombstone,' RUN, don't walk, to your nearest video store, and grab the Vista Series DVD – it's admittedly one of the all-time performances E'er recorded on film! The University must accept slept through 1993!!!!
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Astonishing flick
I went into the theater expecting the normal amount of mushiness i can assume volition exist present in a love story. However, I was pleasantly surprised. At Commencement Sight contains little sappiness, or other such material that only takes up fourth dimension. Instead, the film was an honest wait at one man's attempt to adjust to the "sight" earth. At First Sight offered a look into the struggles Virgil Adamson faced after having sight for the first since he was one. The movie also outlined the pain of his loved ones, as they tried to help him suit to a new surroundings, while facing pain and confusion themselves.
At Commencement Sight is an emotional roller coaster. The motion-picture show jumps effectually from rejoicing, sadness, frustration, defoliation, and happiness. However because these are very real emotions for the characters, the audience sympathizes. The film uses these emotions artfully, without appearing to jam them down the audience's throat.
As any good moving picture will, At Kickoff Sight opens the audition's optics to the people who live through these experiences. Everyday things, like what a bird is, and what an expression ways at a given moment, must be explained Virgil. The lessons Virgil must learn and the way he deals with them are both amusing and sad.
This movie challenges traditional beliefs by stating that a "handicap" is a barrier. Often the real problem is trying to fix it.
If yous're in the market for an excellent pic, with a solid cast, and good furnishings, see At Showtime Sight.
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A worthwhile visit
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I happened to come across this movie ane dark on cablevision. I accept to say I'm sorry I didn't see it in the picture palace. Val Kilmer did an excellent job playing a blind man, and the struggles information technology entails equally he adjusts from his night world, to a seeing one, and having to adapt to loosing information technology all over again. I could't assistance but get wrapped up in his struggles to adjust, the frustration he feels when he tries to adapt to the seeing world and what Amy (Mira S) expects of him equally his eyes begin to fail him once once more. I was surprised to run across, at the stop of the moving picture, that it was based on a true story. Hats off to Val Kilmer for task well done - he was very conceivable.
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A nice movie.
The merely way I can really describe At Beginning Sight is that information technology is a overnice film. A feel good movie, something like that, and a very beauifully shot feel good movie. The cinematography is excellent, the story on the other manus could take used some tightening. Kilmer and Sorvino kind of walk through this moving-picture show on prowl control, I really enjoyed Nathan Lane's small part every bit a vision therapist. This is a dainty movie to sentry on a rainy day or with someone yous honey.
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"Awakenings" Redux
I saw this picture on AMC and part way through information technology, I felt as if I had seen it before. Then I realized I was thinking of the 1990 Penny Marshall motion picture "Awakenings," starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.
"At Commencement Sight" is a truthful story about a blind man who temporarily regains his sight, then goes bullheaded again. "Awakenings" was almost a comatose man who woke up temporarily, then slid back into a asleep.
Oh, and by the way, they're both written by the aforementioned guy.
For what it's worth, "Love At First Sight" is actually a pretty likable and overall watchable film. It's non slap-up or anything unpredictable (how convenient - the female dearest interest) but Kilmer gives a remarkable functioning (all considered) and there are a few moments in hte film that are a Chip out of the ordinary.
Worth watching, just don't go out of your way or anything.
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a good movie with revealing insights
T-10 eighteen Jan 1999
At First Sight was a film with two stories to tell. The first was a love story and the second about a blind young man who has a run a risk to regain his sight. For some reason the two stories both separately compelling did not seem to mesh well--or too as I expected. I'chiliad not sure whether it was the writing or the directing or just me. With that said I thought the per- formances were outstanding. Ms. Sorvino, as the love interest, and Ms. McGillis, as the older sis who helped and cared for him were both good, but this was Mr. Kilmer's movie. He was EXCELLENT. He made me realize that a handicap is oftentimes more that of others than the supposedly handicapped. I suppose I knew this but Mr. Kilmer's performance brought it to conscio usness. He as well portrayed well the confusion and cliffhanger of entering what most people would consider the "normal" easy world of sightedness. I truly enjoyed the scenes where he displayed genuine innocence of adjusting to his new world. I don't want to exist specific here. He showed great dimension to make me realize that sighted or not he was a complete person. In that location is much to be appreciated about this movie and everyone can learn from it. On the ground that this is a truthful and important story and Mr. Kilmer'due south performance---three plus stars.
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This is one of my favorite guilty pleasure romances.
There I said it. I only like everything about this pic even though (if I'm honest) this time through I did find Val Kilmer's perpetual goofy grin and childlike ways kind of off putting (unsexy) On a plus this was made back when he still looked "Meridian Gun" good and the initial massage sequences are very sensual.
Kilmer plays Virgil Adamson a blind masseur who falls in love with one of his clients (Mira Sorvino). He goes home with her to New York and agrees to undergo a risky operation to restore his sight. The outcome however is not what anyone could have predicted and leaves him longing for his old sightless globe.
Ultimately, besides being a great romance this movie made me call up about "seeing" in a whole new fashion especially in how your encephalon processes vision. Kilmer does practice a neat job showing Virgil's struggles in that respect. Based on a true story. 12.13
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In this case, seeing is not believing, 6 out of 10
Between the tear-jerking excesses of two of the Christmas season's biggest movies, Patch Adams and Stepmom,you'd think that fifty-fifty the staunchest fans of those caring-and-sharing medical weepers would have reached their limit. But here comes At Showtime Sight,which is not quite so life-and- expiry, but it's only equally adamant, in its modest manner, to milk those tear ducts dry. In this case, though, the scientific context of the movie -- nearly a blind human who regains his sight with unexpected repercussions -- makes for a subject considerably more interesting than the romantic drama to which information technology is attached.
At Starting time Sight is based on the writings of neurologist Oliver Sacks (the film Awakenings was adjusted from his work as well). Information technology tells the true story of a 50-twelvemonth- former blind man named Virgil who works as a YMCA masseur. On the eve of his wedding, he has cataracts removed, which allows him to see for the start time in twoscore years. The experience, however, turns out to be more than painful than joyful. Equally Sacks notes, the questions raised are profound, and have interested philosophers from John Locke to George Berkeley. Is sight a learned activity? What is the relationship between a world understood through touch and one understood through sight? The basic facts have been moulded into a trite romance that could hands fit between a pair of Harlequin covers. Unfortunately, the film glosses over the scientific discipline and deliberately avoids some of the odder aspects of the original case. Virgil, on gaining his sight, also managed to pack on well-nigh 50 pounds; stress made him eat. Somehow, though, you don't await a star of Val Kilmer'southward magnitude to take the Raging Bull road to character actuality through poundage.
Instead, what we accept is a story of a adult female who discovers the perfect man, almost loses him, and then regains him. Mira Sorvino plays Amy Benic, a hot-shot New York architect, who heads off for a spa weekend in a charming New England village. Before she knows information technology, a hunky masseur has her calf muscles in his hands and has her melting like warm butter under his probing fingers. Entranced, she returns for further rubdowns until one day she approaches Mr. Magic Fingers every bit he'due south getting on a motorbus and discovers -- omigod! -- he'southward blind.
Afterwards a brief Internet search, Amy discovers that Virgil doesn't necessarily accept to be blind, and she lands a superlative surgeon (Bruce Davison) to cure the problem. Information technology turns out that Virgil is a bit reluctant, and his sister Jennie (Kelly McGillis) is downright hostile to the idea of improving her brother'due south lot. Dear wins, though, and Virgil agrees to undergo the treatment. Soon, Virgil and Amy are sharing her New York apartment. But Virgil, who has accommodated himself quite well as a bullheaded man, is now a very inadequate sighted man, who tin can't read or write or interpret fifty-fifty the most basic social signals. He'south miserable trying to learn how to see again, and the relationship goes into a tailspin.
Much of the dialogue, during these dreary lovers' quarrels, focuses on blindness in dear and living with 1's blind spots and limitations (she has a too-symbolic chunk of unfinished sculpture she started in higher). Nathan Lane pops up in the role of a wise and funny counsellor, the sort of function that usually goes to Robin Williams. "Isn't seeing wonderful," he says to Virgil, when he takes him to a strip club. "Seeing sucks," says a disconsolate Virgil. Whorl over, George Berkeley, and tell John Locke the news.
Director Irwin Winkler (Nighttime and the Urban center)is rarely better than pedestrian in handling this story. At worst, the dramatic elements are plain clumsy.
The most interesting moments in At Get-go Sight have nothing to do with the love story, but rise instead from Virgil'southward struggles with the social rules of seeing. What do facial expressions mean? How practice we acquire to look away from the homeless? There are a few moments that try to capture Virgil's viewpoint -- lights, glare, moving shapes -- that are every bit useful as anything the movie has to say near the conventions of seeing. Given the rich visual opportunities of such a topic, it seems a great waste product the pic wasn't directed by someone with a more than acute eye. Benjamin Miller, Filmbay Editor.
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Amazing, absolutely amazing!!!
"At First Sight" is an absolutely amazing movie. I had hesitated to lookout this moving picture in the theaters cause of all the bad reviews it got from the critics and from word of mouth from other people i knew. Well, now I've learned a valuable lesson: Don't heed to what other people say. I knew I should have watched it in the theater simply information technology's okay. I accept seen it on video and nevertheless I saw it. I went into it expecting a big thwarting. But, rather than that, I fell in love with the movie. It touched me in every manner. The fact that it really happened also made me feel extra emotions. This pic is a good i. I don't know what the critics were thinking. I don't know what my friends were thinking, but I guess when I wait at it, united states of america romance/drama movie buffs are a small number compared to the action/chance movie buffs. This motion-picture show is absolutely amazing and whatever you do become see it. If you're a romance/drama movie person I'm sure you'll love it!!!
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One of the finest movies on the topic of blindness, Kilmer and Sorvino are terrific
Amy (Mira Sorvino) is a successful but overly-dedicated Manhattan builder. As she has get testy and depressed at work, at times, her colleagues at the business firm insist she take a much-needed holiday. Amy heads for cute upstate New York, where she takes refuge at a spa-type resort. It is at that place that she meets Virgil (Val Kilmer), a talented masseur who restores her, body and soul, with his skilled hands. Amy is startled to shortly realize that Virgil is bullheaded, equally he is quite capable on the chore and elsewhere. Yet, she is drawn to him and they are shortly quite in love. Virgil'southward caring merely uptight sister (Kelly McGillis) is skeptical just understands Virgil's wish to movement to New York Urban center with Amy. Things get fifty-fifty more complex when Amy discovers that there may be an operation to restore Virgil'south sight. Should he run a risk the surgery and its backwash? This may exist Kilmer's finest hr, every bit his Virgil is one of the best blind characters ever put on screen. His portrayal makes it clear that no sighted person tin can ever truly comprehend what incomprehension entails or what is truly all-time for the disabled person in general. Sorvino is lovely and touching as the woman who truly cares for Virgil but who finds information technology difficult to understand his overall situation. McGillis is excellent equally the caretaker sister and Nathan Lane as well shines in his role as a therapist to the disabled population. Everyone will also honey the costumes, settings, and look of the picture show. In brusk, those who admire romantic dramas will not desire to miss this one, every bit information technology is compelling story of true dearest. Simply, the motion picture's depiction of the inability of blindness is so first charge per unit that anyone wishing to understand the unsighted should put this flick on their A-listing now.
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Only works because of the performances. *** out of ****
AT Offset SIGHT (1999) ***
Starring: Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis, Steven Weber, Bruce Davison, Nathan Lane Director: Irwin Winkler 124 minutes PG-13 (for sexuality and nudity, and some language) ***
By Blake French, based on annotate past Lynda French and Faye Glimmer:
In many means "At First Sight," is not a good movie. For instance: It does not do a good chore of explaining the inspiration for the plot, the blind homo'southward optical surgery. That is unfortunate, because I really was interested in that concept.
The film, based on a novel called "To See and Not Run into," is centered on a homo who has gotten used to beingness bullheaded. He knows his entire way around New York. He and then falls in honey with an architect. Her name is Amy. Virgil, the blind man, is hired by complete coincidence to exist her massager. The minutes he touches her, she knows that this man is unlike for other men she has formed relationships with in the past.
The plot is stiff, but thin at the same time. For example, the moving-picture show takes heed in developing the characters, but never the disharmonize, or villain, or sub-plots. If the manager would accept decided to focus on those things a bit more, or a lot more in that matter, the film would have been wonderful. After all, it is well written and performed.
There is a sup-plot, however, that is detailed. The filmmakers throw in a imitation pause upward between two characters, and how Vigirl deals with the misguided presence of his distant father. This incidence is only in beingness to create sappy melodrama to further the movie's running time.
My main recommendation comes only from the get-go rate performances from Kilmer and Sorvino. Val Kilmer ("The Saint" 1997, "Heat" 1994) delivers is outstanding as the blind human. He brings to life the confusion of lack of sight. Mira Sorvino ("Mimic," 1997, "Romy and Michelle'southward High School Reunion," 1997) plays Amy with disrespect and verve. She also captures the wonder and creativity of the audience'south imagination. The sub-characters including Steven Weber ("Sour Grapes" 1998, "The Shinning," 1997) Bruce Davidson and Nathan Lane ("Mousehunt" 1997) are also very suburb in their roles.
That said, this film is non all that original. Retrieve about information technology for a infinitesimal: two people fall in love, who have many differences and problems. Does this audio familiar? The truth: this is only another romance story with a gimmick. The movie works, simply merely by the skin of its performances.
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Enjoyed this movie based on truth
When I saw the boilerplate rating of five. something, on this site, I thought oh well maybe I'll watch it anyway since I similar Mira Sorvino and information technology was based on a real man's story. Also it was costless on a channel I accept cause information technology was older:), only I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Not an Oscar winner or anything but very well done story about a man blind since a young child, who went through some unpleasant treatments to assistance him regain his sight that didn't piece of work. Now an developed, very used to being blind, he meets a young woman whom he likes, and she likes him likewise. She hears near a new surgery to assist him regain his vision and wants him to try it, but his sister, who has been there for him his whole life helping him survive the sighted world, objects. His father left the family early on, and hasn't been in contact with him at all! He has to accommodate his life drastically, and the moving-picture show shows all the pitfalls of suddenly seeing things and non e'er knowing what to practise.Information technology was pretty well acted, I thought, and made me want to discover out more than about the real homo. All in all, well worth watching.
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Condign a classic
This film is beautifully fabricated and very well acted .A story that sucks you lot in .Makes you believe .One of my favourite movies around the millennium.
Mira Sorvino and Val Kilmer are outstanding..Watch and enjoy.
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Do we take the correct to brand changes for others?
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I watched this flick on tardily night TV and definitely enjoyed it. I think it will stay with me because information technology reminded me that sometimes I try to alter people to make life improve for them as I think information technology should exist. I must be more conscious in finding out What they want before I start the process of changing. I think Virgil was much more intuitive and happy in his blindness. Although his life was a simple one, he was happy. Amy tried to make him part of her globe and regaining his sight became very frightening and confusing for him, especially in New York Urban center. He went from serenity and peace with his life to confusion and acrimony. Perhaps information technology is good that he lost his sight again.
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Please Don't Compare This Poorly-Acted Clunker To 'Awakenings'
For some reason, perchance a review I read prior to watching this, I thought this might exist an "Awakenings"-type story, and so I was enthused most watching it. Well, it's not a tenth every bit skillful as "Awakenings" and shouldn't even be mentioned in the aforementioned breath as that fine film. If you read someone comparing the 2 films, don't believe information technology. I was intelligent and fascinating; one was stupid and tiresome.
This is just atrocious. It's about a blind man who temporarily regains his sight, then loses information technology over again. That sounds interesting but the pic, in a nutshell, turned out to be null only a long, lather opera with an extremely irritating female lead: Mia Sorvino, equally "Amy Benic." Val Kilmer's graphic symbol, "Virg Anderson," might have lost his sight but Sorvino obviously had lost her brains. What a bimbo! It doesn't help she blurts out OMG every third sentence, which makes her sound even more stupid. Kilmer, meanwhile, should stick with offense movies or westerns. He's very adept in those kind of films. He stinks at melodrama. This picture did not need to go over two hours, either.
In the cease, it'southward just not a memorable story and it should have been, as "Awakenings" certainly wound upward.
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Awesome
Movies and then rarely touch the heart, and this one was perfect.
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OK I suppose but just as well many absurdities
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first of all, the paramount rule of heart surgery is You Practice ONE Centre AT A Time AND Run into HOW IT WORKS OUT. if the surgery is successful you do the other eye if not then need to seriously reconsider waiting until medical technology gives yous another crack at it on the other eye.
yous don't do experimental surgery on BOTH eyes in the same operation.
too, no freakin way a responsible medical practitioner would permit glaring camera lights in the room for a patient who's going to see for the starting time time in 25 years!!! DIM THE LIGHTS PEOPLE !!! I wont elaborate on the other absurdities simply for me there were just besides many.
the good news is the performances were done well, this is a nice 'feel good' movie with a so-so happy catastrophe 'based on' a truthful story FWIW.
Mira Sorvino has those archetype Italian features and is very very smart lady fluent in iii languages. maybe 4. very smart.
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Val & Mira dazzle!
AT Beginning SIGHT, in my opinion, is a very sweetness, touching, and romantic motion picture. I thought that Virgil (Val Kilmer) was a very sweet and kind human, even though he had been blind since childhood. To me, Amy (Mira Sorvino) was a very sweet, kind, and loving adult female. I felt happy for her when she found Virgil. This was because she was looking for the right human. And her ex-husband, Duncan (Steven Weber), wasn't the ane for her, although they withal worked together at the same company. I couldn't believe they still worked together after they got a divorce. In my opinion, Virgil was the correct man for Amy. Before I shut, I want to say to all you people that are Val Kilmer or Mira Sorvino fans, I highly recommend this film. In conclusion, I retrieve Val and Mira dazzle equally a blind masseuse and a stressed-out architect.
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Chick motion-picture show, Sorvino looks great
Well, if you've seen "Awakenings" or read "Flowers for Algernon" there's non much point in seeing this picture, with one exception. Val Kilmer greatly irritates me for some reason. However, it is difficult to discount his talent. He has made some of his previous roles, such as Jim Morrison, and Iceman, his own. He is good here, as well, simply however irritating. Nathan Lane, in a small-scale office, was much less irritating than usual. Steven Weber, in another modest office was only as irritating equally always. Kelly McGillis is either non aging well, or deliberately played this one frumpy. That's probably the case equally frumpy fits the character perfectly. And, Mira Sorvino. Well. She looked then cute with her sorry smile against the wintertime backdrop. Her acting was expert, too, I never idea of her every bit out of character throughout the film. This is worth seeing if you are a fan of Sorvino, or Kilmer. Otherwise, skip it.
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Love is the best guide !
I've truly enjoyed watching this motion-picture show ! "At First Sight"is a wonderful tender film that gives a different perspective on the idea that blind people are completely helpless. Virgil Adamson is a human being able to take intendance of himself in a controlled environs and non only. He'south capable of taking chances, such as his trip to New York. My conventionalities is that Val has displayed ane of his most inspired performances and the flick is not only a wonderful romance merely also a living proof of his talent. Adam existed earlier falling in love but simply later he began living. His love guided him places that sight alone wouldn't practise the chore. I propose everybody to "go see what they see" for themselves i don't retrieve they'll be disappointed.
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1999 was definitely THE year in movies
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"At First Sight" is a beautifully fabricated romance film about a guy who's been blind since e'er and falls in love with a daughter that helps him finding sight. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen as planed, but has such a good story anyways.
The actors are very sensible, their conversations are so well made (congratz Steve Levitt) that get out many philosophical thoughts to the spectator. How would life be without sight? How would we imagine things we've never seen? Virgil (or Val Kilmer) has such an aggressive expression, I felt like he was nearly to spank someone somewhen. Don't know if it was intended, but that was my impression.
So, this motion-picture show is one of those rare romances that entertain and the time seems to wing, and then I surely recommend this to everyone.
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a sweet one-time-fashioned story...
It may not exist a very original moving-picture show, only the bandage is superb. Both Val Kilmer and especially Mira Sorvino are excellent. Val Kilmer is the blind man who is working in a town with his sister Kelly MacGillis, in a superb form every bit an actress, isolated from the existent life in the large cities. Mira Sorvino is the builder, who is so tired and bored from her life, and visits the town for vacation, falls in love with the Kilmer, and tries to help him. The scenes where Kilmer is learning the pregnant of life, like a small child, are modest scenes of poetry, and there is a magic chemical science between the 2 actors, who are patently enjoying themselves. Too another scene which is very poetic is the scene where Sorvino and Kilmer are traped in an old factory, when it starts to rain, and both explain what rain means to them. The flick has the fortune to accept a musical score by Marker Isham, and one excellent love song that is one of the best of the last decade. It is an sometime-fashioned love story, but information technology does not feel and does not seem former. After watching it y'all will feel a lot amend...
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Very interesting movie!
Val Kilmer (The Saint) is Virgil Adamson, who lost his eyesight at a young age. Val Kilmer does a great chore playing the part.This is not an easy office. I call back that I read somewhere that he wore contact lenses that blocked his vision. This is a very interesting character. Virgil is a actually sweet person. Amy Benic, Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) has to take a vacation at a resort because of her job and as she drives past in the night she sees this guy playing hockey. Jennie Adamson, Kelly McGillis (Meridian Gun), is his sister and has taken care of him all his life. Dr. Charles Aaron, Nathan Lane (The Bird Muzzle), helps Virgil to cope with the temporary gain of his eyesight. The problem is that not even the doctors know much nigh how to help Virgil. He has no sense of depth, no sense of perspective, can not read, the world as a person who can encounter is very treating to Virgil. I felt during this movie that most of u.s. do accept a lot of what nosotros are and have for granted. I am very nearsighted and cannot see in the mirror, and have to ask for assist when I lose my glasses. To me contact lenses and the highlight lenses are ii of the nearly valuable inventions of this century. Most people practise not realize that I am so nearsighted because of the overnice lenses in my spectacles and the contacts that I wear, only without those I would actually in be problem. As an boyish I had bug considering I idea that it was ugly to wear spectacles. But I had no problems with contacts at that fourth dimension. I take been wearing them since I was fifteen. My contact lenses are called Toric, and have to be custom made. I could never change my middle color with those lenses because that they do not come that way. Thank GOD for the scientific advancement of this century. I could not take light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation surgery considering my eyes have not stop getting worse. I have a real appreciation for Virgil. What I accept is aught compared to him! The ability to run across the world, the beautiful color, our loved ones, understand people'due south expressions on their faces. That is all wonderful, and a wonder! I was thinking how difficult it is not to see and the special effects helped to comprehend the problem fifty-fifty amend. Amy tries so much to aid, but after trying and so hard every bit Virgil did it is difficult to have promise. He lost his sight but did not lose his heart. This is a nice film! Moreover especially because it is a true story. I recommend this flick.
Favorite Scenes: Virgil skating with Amy. Virgil playing hockey in the middle of the night. Watching or listening to a hockey game. Amy asked Virgil: Are they losing? He said: I prefer to recall that they are not winning. What a positive attitude. The cotton candies! That is awesome. Favorite Quotes: " I wanted to behold not to be whole." " I am having a bad eye mean solar day!"
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Good ensemble cast make this an Oscar-worthy moving picture
At Offset Sight is the type of flick that the whole family goes to meet. It is filled with hope, innocence, happiness, and sadness. Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino have the best on-screen chemistry I've seen in a long fourth dimension. This is based upon a true story; I feel that I saw a genuine interest in Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino to stay as shut to the true business relationship as possible. This picture excels at every corner including cast ensemble, performances, storylines, plots, and settings. Val Kilmer portrays Virgil Adamson and Mira Sorvino portrays his girlfriend Amy Benic. While on vacation, Amy meets a human being that would forever change her life. There is only one problem: he is bullheaded. As the relationship develops, she convinces Virgil to have eye surgery. Supporting performances by Kelly McGillis and Nathan Lane fabricated this movie a real winner in my book. I beloved this movie because it is easy to follow, light hearted and filled with 18-carat caring and kindness. With these elements it is definitely worth mentioning at Oscar time.
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