BlindsightCourage and naïveté  March 12,
2008 2:32:48 PM
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Blindsight
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Fueled by an equal measure of courage and naïveté, six sightless Tibetan students take a demanding field trip toward equality via Lhakpa Ri, a 23,000-foot peak on the north side of Everest. Blindsight, however, impedes more than it inspires. There’s a rich humanitarian documentary on human frailty and perseverance within this tedious mess of backstory and action-adventure angles, but director Lucy Walker is too narrow-sighted to locate it; she spends more time exploiting the children who fail than celebrating those who succeed. Although the opening is promising, as she probes the prejudices against blindness in Tibetan society due to Buddhist belief, Walker would rather focus on the tear slowly running down Tashi’s cheek than pursue the social implications of the students’ dangerous challenge. The optimistic, tacked-on coda, which features a child belting out “Happy Together,” exposes this production for what it ultimately is — an exercise in damning with faint praise. Tibetan + German | 104 minutes | Kendall Square
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