BLIND - THE HISTORICAL ROMANCE MADNESS CONTINUES WITH ANOTHER FUCKED-UP OTP!!!
BLIND
"True love is blind."
The 2007 Belgian/Dutch co-production movie is an intimate story with only 4 characters, realistic but at the same time fairytale-like where the director uses every possible sensory perception that Ruben has available - touch, smell, hearing,... - to highten the whole experience. After I'd seen the trailer I never stood a chance.
[Spoiler (click to open)]
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century during winter in a rich household where a young and lonesome boy Ruben (Joren Sedelslachts) lives alone with his mother and a handful of servants. Unfortunately, Ruben is blind, he is good-looking but capricious and aggressive man who scares and attacks anyone who comes near him even his mother is afraid of him and sees him as a half-wild animal. So she hires a reader for him, Marie.
And hereby I present another of my fucked-up OTP who are both dysfunctional with the rest of the world, however, completely perfect for each other:
Ruben and Marie, I immediately fell head over heels in love with them. They are so similar, both broken inside and out, however, each one dealing with it differently. He is rich, young, and handsome, his mother's beloved son who lost his sight in childhood, as a result he became an angry and tortured young man, cast into darkness, unable to tolerate the presence of anyone. Marie, on the other hand, is an albino woman in her thirties, who was as a child mutilated and scarred by her own mother who couldn't bear that her daughter was different, maybe even being jealous of her outlandish but still beautiful looks, thus constantly telling Marie how ugly she was. This psychological and physical abuse caused Marie to feel very insecure in front people, usually never daring to show herself to them much less her face, reading books became for her a form of an escape.
The first time they meet he lashes out on her and starts throwing teacups at her but she catches every single one which leaveing him completely doumbfounded since he can't hear the crashing. You suddenly realize that for him destroying things is a way to make himself believe that he is still alive. It's perhaps the first time that anyone got under his skin.
She starts to read to him the story of Snow Queen, Gerda and Kai. He knows it but still listens because he can't figure her out and is intrigued by her.
[Spoiler (click to open)]
He ask her how she looks and how old she is but she lies telling him she is a brunette with green eyes in her early twenties.
When he touches the scars on her hands and face Joren thinks them to be winter flowers - you really can't blame Marie for falling for him
Before Marie came Ruben was treated like invalid, however, Marie teaches him how to be self-sufficient and to take care of himself - I wouldn't mind teaching him myself
Shaving have never been this romantic
For a time there are truly happy but it turns out the an operation can make Ruben see again
It's them against the world - their stations, looks, age, propriety, prejudices, Marie's lies, his mother hates her, his doctor and family friend is no better,...So the question is: will Ruben reject Marie or will true love prove to be really blind
Blind is a masterpiece that is going to take your heart.
By the way, the movie has an amazing soundtrack which was never officially released. Here, is at least a youtube link to the most beautiful instrumental of the entire film:
"True love is blind."
The 2007 Belgian/Dutch co-production movie is an intimate story with only 4 characters, realistic but at the same time fairytale-like where the director uses every possible sensory perception that Ruben has available - touch, smell, hearing,... - to highten the whole experience. After I'd seen the trailer I never stood a chance.
Click to view[Spoiler (click to open)]
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century during winter in a rich household where a young and lonesome boy Ruben (Joren Sedelslachts) lives alone with his mother and a handful of servants. Unfortunately, Ruben is blind, he is good-looking but capricious and aggressive man who scares and attacks anyone who comes near him even his mother is afraid of him and sees him as a half-wild animal. So she hires a reader for him, Marie.
And hereby I present another of my fucked-up OTP who are both dysfunctional with the rest of the world, however, completely perfect for each other:
Ruben and Marie, I immediately fell head over heels in love with them. They are so similar, both broken inside and out, however, each one dealing with it differently. He is rich, young, and handsome, his mother's beloved son who lost his sight in childhood, as a result he became an angry and tortured young man, cast into darkness, unable to tolerate the presence of anyone. Marie, on the other hand, is an albino woman in her thirties, who was as a child mutilated and scarred by her own mother who couldn't bear that her daughter was different, maybe even being jealous of her outlandish but still beautiful looks, thus constantly telling Marie how ugly she was. This psychological and physical abuse caused Marie to feel very insecure in front people, usually never daring to show herself to them much less her face, reading books became for her a form of an escape.
The first time they meet he lashes out on her and starts throwing teacups at her but she catches every single one which leaveing him completely doumbfounded since he can't hear the crashing. You suddenly realize that for him destroying things is a way to make himself believe that he is still alive. It's perhaps the first time that anyone got under his skin.
She starts to read to him the story of Snow Queen, Gerda and Kai. He knows it but still listens because he can't figure her out and is intrigued by her.
[Spoiler (click to open)]
He ask her how she looks and how old she is but she lies telling him she is a brunette with green eyes in her early twenties.
When he touches the scars on her hands and face Joren thinks them to be winter flowers - you really can't blame Marie for falling for him
Before Marie came Ruben was treated like invalid, however, Marie teaches him how to be self-sufficient and to take care of himself - I wouldn't mind teaching him myself
Shaving have never been this romantic
For a time there are truly happy but it turns out the an operation can make Ruben see again
It's them against the world - their stations, looks, age, propriety, prejudices, Marie's lies, his mother hates her, his doctor and family friend is no better,...So the question is: will Ruben reject Marie or will true love prove to be really blind
Blind is a masterpiece that is going to take your heart.
By the way, the movie has an amazing soundtrack which was never officially released. Here, is at least a youtube link to the most beautiful instrumental of the entire film: