盲恋

It is a story about a blind boy (may be around 20 years of age) – played by Joren Seldeslachts - who is wild and lives with his mother in a palatial county type house; and his care taker lady (may be around 30 years of age) – brilliantly enacted by Halina Reijn (remember Zwartboek?) - who is suffering from albino – i.e. body does not produce enough pigment and the a person has pale or colorless skin, eyes and hair. Joren starts falling in love with Halina without noticing about her albino disease because he is blind. Halina tries hard to evade Joren's closeness – but is not able to resist her own fears, and falls in love with Joren. Katelijne Verbeke plays the boy's mother who notices this attraction and is against their relationship. The good news comes when the boy is about to get his sight back and that is the time Halina goes away – so that Joren would always remember her as a beautiful girl. But Joren is persistent and after regaining his sight desperately searches for Halina. Do they meet? And what happens after that – I will not tell you and spoil your show.


　　I cried seeing the movie. It has been several years since I have cried so much in a movie. I think the last time it was when I was 16 years old – and had gone to see "Summer of '42". Now I am 40. But the purity of love shown in the movie is tenderly executed by the director Tamar van de Dop.


　　From the time Halina enters the screen, she captured my imagination. The anguish of Halina's soul – her spirit, her fears, her will, her character, her love and her sadness are depicted with generosity. Some scenes are simply outstanding – when Halina closes her eyes and touches her face and lips to feel how will a blind man feel her face? When she covers the mirror as soon as she enters the palatial house – and later when she uncovers it to see – what in her is beautiful that the boy is falling in love with her. The body language of her – to resist the boy coming close, but she giving up to the power of love – is worthwhile to see. From the time Halina enters the screen and goes away – I longed desperately to see her back. She has played her part so naturally that I have fallen in love with her and would not dare to meet her in real life – to break my image of "Marie" that's her name in the movie.


　　The backdrop is – I think Belgium or Bulgaria! The snow clad landscape is captured with nature's ecstasy. The music is fantastic. Some scenes are so greatly executed that without a word – just by images the director communicates so many things, and that is the art of cinema. Good movies bring you back to the soul – the core of our human values and purity of love.


　　Just one final comment, the love making scene between Halina and Joren pops up without a gradual build up within that particular shot, and that is the only jarring part of the movie.

最后看到盲了的男主独自坐在树下，想起了《边城》的那一句“这个人也许永远不回来了，也许”明天“回来！”。

The reality is blind, but the love is bright. 即便是童话，我还是相信。

电影完成度很高，演员演技很好。但是我是实在没法接受里面的三观。

自卑的人没有想象中勇敢，勇敢一定是好的吗？

真喜欢这种纯爱系的男主！以及女主一头白发蛮好看的！

在爱情里，视力是不是很多余，总之这部电影让我坠入情网

b站真的好神奇啊…这什么片…啊难煮看到女主空手接茶杯（和茶盘）顿时觉得女主好单纯好不做作和外面那些妖艳贱货不一样！！！然而机掰女主看到男主眼睛好了之后怕他看不上自己，于是就跑了。。。

把女人自卑化了，男孩理想化了。难道非得对等的残缺才足以谈爱？女人不懂爱，她只能接受眼瞎男孩的爱，出于自私的占有欲，她渴望童话却又很现实，她不相信复明看到广阔世界的男孩仍钟意于她的心。我不介意女人的外表如何，可她的心到后面也生病了，令人生厌。

期待很久，题材新颖，只是…故事原本就在那里，只是缺少人读出来，给予男主眼睛的并不是女主，而且故事本身。在想如果阅读者换了别人，男主是否也会爱上？

找了N久终于看到的电影，看了后才发现不过如此，北欧范儿十足，这个不错，但故事实在是单薄，男主角爱上女主角也莫名，女主角卑微的自尊心只让我觉得矫情，人家都来找你要带你回家了，你还在那儿自作，结局男主角重新刺瞎双眼女主角也没出现，看得太不满足了。如其他豆友所说，女主角完全可以找个漂亮

两人明显缺乏火花，爱情来得太突兀，虽然这个骚年不看脸，何必把女主角拍得像丑大妈，观感上有点接受不了

三星半，故事情节略显单薄，配乐与摄影美如诗篇。Love is blind，权衡得失的爱情是纯粹的爱情吗？影片结尾没有给出童话式的结局，虽然残缺，这才是现实吧。