The Sensation of Sight (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Aaron J. Wiederspahn

Guionista:

Aaron J. Wiederspahn (writer)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

When life becomes a second language...

Plot:

This off-beat drama about man's search for meaning amidst the ache of despair chronicles Finn, an introspective...

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Pretentious claptrap...misses by a country mile...

Reparto

David Strathairn	...	Finn
Ian Somerhalder	...	Drifter
Daniel Gillies	...	Dylan
Jane Adams	...	Alice
Ann Cusack	...	Deanna
Joseph Mazzello	...	Tripp
Elisabeth Waterston	...	Daisy
Scott Wilson	...	Tucker
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Lisa Bostnar	...	Police Officer
Ellen Colton	...	Neighbor
John Griesemer	...	Principal
Joanna Herrington	...	Teacher
Cassidy Hinkle	...	Ruthie
Adam LeFevre	...	Alice's Boss
Tony Swingle	...	Josh
David Szehi	...	Bartender

MPAA:

Rated R for some language.

Duración:

USA:134 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Clasificación:

USA:R | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA

Compañía:

either/or films

Pretentious claptrap...misses by a country mile...

Like short stories, poems, and songs, films either "work" or they don't. By "work" I mean, the piece has coherence, proper pacing, narrative drive, artistic elan, sufficient seriousness, psychological and emotional depth, but also a certain clarity that can't be feigned. Sad to say, THE SENSATION OF SIGHT doesn't work, i.e., it doesn't engage, fascinate, or absorb the viewer into its world. To cite one feature among many, David Strathairn's character, Finn, is one of those inscrutably quirky characters often found in indies, i.e., a dispirited but otherwise sane and articulate high school English teacher who has taken to carting around a wagon full of Encyclopedia Britannicas that he tries to sell to local townsfolk--for reasons that remain murky. In a word, Finn is a droll walking-talking caricature, not a real person and therefore impossible to credit with a sense of reality. Ditto for most of the other denizens of this whimsical little world. Young writer-director Aaron J. Wiederspahn exhibits glimmers of film-making ability but SENSATION OF SIGHT is a film that tries too hard to be "profound" and merely ends up being tedious.