Walking a Movie Off the Trail

 Whether it is good or bad, I seldom try to watch new movies.  But I made an exception on Tubitv.com when I chose "The Music of Silence", a semi-biographical story of the blind singer, Andrea Bocelli.  It deserves praise for a good story and the lack of the usual components of modern movies, such as insane violence, bedroom scenes, rainbow flag worship, etc.

It is enjoyable for most viewers to stick for an underdog, and that is especially so for a blind person.  But it is almost too easy.  Most people remember the "Miracle Worker", with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, in the Helen Keller story.  So the path has already been well explored. 

Halfway through the movie, I started to think that the viewer needed more of a challenge, in the same way that an outdoorsman needs to get off of heavily-used trails that have a brown, carsonite sign every 100 steps.

Much to the movie's credit, it showed a scene when a heavy female singer spontaneously joined Bocelli at the piano bar he was performing at.  

They had the same thought I had: it is easy to stick for the blind person, but actually, a heavy woman has a more severe handicap in the music or entertainment business than a blind person.  Who sticks for her?   It's as if her talent just doesn't matter.  Consider the story of Debbie Voigt, which is on You Tube:

The movie viewer can take an idea like this and run with it, in their own thoughts.  Maybe it is the best kind of movie when the viewer becomes inspired to write their own script in some related direction.