Term Paper #2
Movie Review: The Blind by
Andrew Hyatt
This past weekend was fall break, and what college student doesn't want to relax for the weekend? For me, relaxing also meant spending intentional time with myself, and what more perfect opportunity is there than going to a movie theatre? To be completely honest, I didn't plan on going to see a movie until I was told I had to do it for a class. In this case, I had to look up what was showing in my hometown theatre for the weekend. A good majority of the options were horror films, but I don't really enjoy watching horror movies anymore. Growing up, I loved watching them. As I got older, my relationship with God became more intimate, and the movies weren't appealing anymore. Besides that, there was a film called The Blind. It was about a man battling his demons with his relationship, family, God, and himself. It sounded interesting.
which is usually when Cinemark is most crowded. Let’s talk about prices. The cost of the movie ticket was $12.45. The last time I'd been to a movie theatre the tickets were around eight dollars, so I was honestly surprised a little. So far, getting into the movies was no problem at all. As a college student in a small town, going to a theatre doesn’t happen often, so I had to give myself the full experience. The concession prices were beyond outrageous, so instead, I gave myself more of a “half” experience. I decided to buy a small popcorn, which was $7.04 after a small tax fee. The prices of other foods were no better, meaning the cheapest item on the menu was a chocolate chip cookie slice for $1.50. Bags of packaged candy ranked from $1.00-$5.95, and a hotdog was priced at $6.95. As a realist, I have to say that the only candy that must’ve been a dollar couldn’t have been more than a single blow-pop or such, so I wouldn’t necessarily count that. 
The room that the film was placed in was one of the smaller rooms. The room had quite a few rows, but there was only one staircase to get to and from the seats. Realizing this let me know that either the film had been out for some time, or the film wasn’t appealing to most people and was expected to have small audiences. The Blind was released September 28, 2023, so it had been out for a little over two weeks. For a movie I had only just heard of, the audience was rather full. Almost every row on the top half was full of people. From what few people I did pay attention to, the audience was made up mostly of adults. There were some teenagers here and there, but mainly adults.
Andrew Hyatt’s film, The Blind, was an outstanding movie. It told the story of a normal man facing problems bigger than himself. Phil Robertson grew up in a poor household as the oldest of four. His mother was a woman with uncontrollable sanity. In other words, she was crazy. At times, she would have episodes, and it took a toll on the children growing up, especially Phil. Luckily, Phil met a girl and they fell in love, grew up, and created a family. However, the older Phil got, the more his sanity started to control him. He was a drunk, and he fell short of the glory of God. The film displayed a beautiful, not-so-beautiful, story of a man that battled his inner demons and found his way to God. A man that told the audience how God is the only one who could pull someone out of such a dark place. The production was outstanding. I enjoyed the way the story was told, the layout of the scenes and how the story was told, the music, and how it all told a beautiful, real story. The quality of the movie made the story personal for the audience. However, the audience was respectful and silent, me included. No one knew I was silently broken from the story, with silent streaming tears rolling down my face in the corner of the theatre. The Blind is a film worth the price of admission, not so much the price of concessions.
It is a wonderful story of a once broken man saved by God and His glory, inspired by a true story.
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