My Blind Brother

I saw this film in my film class in NYU and it was very interesting. I enjoyed the fact that the blind brother acted like a prick to his brother and got all the attention. Sophie in a q&a after the film screened stated she originally had it my blind sister but decided to make them guys coming to the conclusion that having it girls would have a different effect on the audience. I'm not sure why she thought that. It was hitting a homerun until the ending which left me wanting. Such a great premise wasn't used for all it's comedic and dramatic possibilities. Some of the film may be offensive towards blind people depends who you are. Some people were offended though in my class.

Human civilization may be judged, in the end, by the contribution of its artists to the greater social discourse, and if this is the case for short film, then Sophie Goodhart makes a good case for the continuation and, dare I suggest it, procreation of the species.

My Blind Brother is a unique achievement in the short and uneventful history of cinema, as it touches each of the available human emotions and stimulates them to a feverish climax. Afterwards it tosses them an old towel and asks them to clean themselves up in the bathroom. For days after seeing this film I felt empty inside, but I've grown as a cineaste, and as a man, and have come to appreciate it. Sophie Goodhart is an artist of incomparable virtue, and I look forward to her imminent assumption -- with her first feature film -- of the mantel of genius.