First of all I want to thank the one who nominated me for this contest of which I had no idea. I really like movies and constantly talk about the movies that I've seen. That said, I found that many people run away from film dramas for the same reason that others seek them out: because they are dramatic. In the same way that there are people who prefer to laugh at movies or get excited about adventures on the big screen, there are others who sometimes want to see a movie that makes them cry. It's not masochism, it's simply a taste for the stories that make you feel. I love ovies that can make you feel real and deep emotions and for everyone, but especially for those like me, I bring this movie.
Black is a 2005 dramatic film, made in India, written, produced and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and starring the famous Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan. If the name sounds familiar, it's because this actor was the childhood hero of Jamal, the protagonist of Slumdog Millionaire, played by Dev Patel. The film is based on the autobiography of Helen Keller, an American deafblind writer, speaker, and political activist, but the similarity to this story is minimal.
The film tells the story of Michelle McNally, a girl born to an Anglo-Indian family and with a lot of money, who gets an illness when she's a baby and is permanently deaf and blind. If we start from that fact and remember that children learn to speak by repetition, the logical thing is that Michelle cannot learn to speak. In other words, she goes blind, deaf, and dumb, just a couple of years after she was born. Can anyone imagine a darker future? Not knowing how to deal with her, Michelle is raised like a savage: eats with her hands, she growls, she even carries a bell so her parents can know where she is. It's then when the man who will change his life forever appears.
Debraj Sahai is a teacher of the deaf and blind who is 48 years old and just lost his job because of drinking. It's somewhat eccentric but successful in teaching children with such difficulties. Michelle's eight years old an her mother accepts professor Sahai at home despite witnessing how hard he can be with Michelle (he doesn't please her and obligates her to use cutlery, or at least he tries) and the conditions that he imposes on her. teaching. The task is not easy. How can you teach someone who cannot hear or see to communicate? Sahai has his methods and in just a few days she manages to get Michelle to pronounce her first word: Water. But it's not just about pronouncing syllables. He must get Michelle to associate words with what they represent and also teach her to communicate through signs and gestures (remember she's also deaf). He dedicates years of his life to it, until he manages to put her the university. Does he leave her then? No. Classes are for normal students, how would Michelle be able to understand them? There, in the classroom, next to the desk, Sahai sits down to explain her and it works so well that even Michelle, through her teacher, manages to intervene in classes. She is a brilliant girl, capable of understanding subjects and contents beyond her ability to identify them. But not everything is perfect.
Michelle fails several semesters, not because of lack of knowledge, but because she's very slow to type (she uses a Braille typewriter). Her teacher stays there, by her side, until he begins to forget things beacuse of a disease. He even forgets Michelle: he has Alzheimer's and is admitted to an asylum, leaving her pupil alone who must, from then on, fend for herself. Frightened first and determined later, Michelle manages to graduate and even pronounce a speech in her graduation act, which is the point where I felt drops of hot water coming down from my eyes. I could say I practice empathicalism (taking the term from an Audrey Hepburn's character) but I'm not much of a weepy. A movie, a story can touch me deep down to the core of my soul and I might not cry over it. However that speech is one of the most emotional scenes that I remember, because in it converges all the drama of an extremely difficult story, full of obstacles overcome with dedication and love. So, yes, I shed a few tears on that scene.
Michelle's dream was not only to graduate, but for Sahai to see her with her cap and gown. So she will visit him at the asylum. He doesn't recognize her at first. He has not only forgotten her: he has also forgotten how to speak. It's heartbreaking. After so much dedication, will he not be able to share the success of the woman he loved and still loves him? (of course they fall in love) However, Michelle is not daunted. What does she think? She thinks You taught me to speak; Now I will teach you and by the sign of fate, or rather from the pen of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, when she's visiting him it starts to rain and Michelle takes Sahai to the window to feel the drops falling and to be able to remind him of that hidden word in some deep corner of his memory: Water.
From the title, which perfectly reflects what the world of a person who does not see and does not listen can be, to the end that closes the story with masterful symmetry, passing through an impeccable script, loaded with emotional, happy, sad, heartbreaking scenes; romantic, frustrating, joyous, and a superb performance by the protagonists, this is a drama ideal for those people who sometimes want to see a movie that makes them cry. If this film doesn't move you at least to the point of tears, you can already forget about your appointments with the cardiologist because you sir have no heart.
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