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May 18, 2019
I really love this classic, touching and heart warming film. I can see this movie over and over again and the message never becomes outdated. The film is about an eighteen year old blind girl named Selina D'Arcey (played by Elizabeth Hartman) who lives with abusive guardians and is from a poor family. She meets an African American man named Gordon Ralfe (played by Sidney Poitier) and they form a beautiful friendship. Sidney Poitier who played Gordon Ralfe was an inspiring and accomplished African American actor, surprising during an era of racial prejudice. Selina cannot see that Gordon is a man of colour. Hate is what makes people blind. Hate is what drives people to forget that there is a soul beneath someone’s skin colour, or race. After all, we are all human and what is inside is what counts. This movie planted a seed to bring interracial relationships into our culture and onto the screen. Although, it was filmed during the cutting edge of the civil rights movement, this was still a daring film to make. It reminds us that there is good and bad in everyone. When Selina said, “I know you’re good and kind. I know you’re coloured and I and I think you are beautiful!" was the most powerful sentence I think in the history of humanity. Watch this movie! It won’t disappoint you! @janmarrow1225 of the Teen Review Board at the Hamilton Public Library