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Inspirational ‘Sight’ Puts the Real World in Focus
“Sight”
Rating: 9/10
Director and writer: Andrew Hyatt
Style: Biopic/Drama
Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Review by Mike Szymanski
Just when you think you know everything about every possible true story, some amazing tale makes it to the big screen and overwhelms you.
I am particularly tuned in to medical breakthrough stories — and with a special interest in eyes and blindness — yet I never heard of this story of Dr. Ming Wang, who faced personal struggles almost as difficult as the patients he is trying to help.
If this filmic journey of “Sight” doesn’t make you alternately laugh and cry, and make you swell with emotion, then you simply do not have a heart.
A true story endorsed by the doctor himself, the story actually starts off with a brutal act of violence in India in 2006. A stepmother is seen burning the eyes of a young girl with sulfuric acid. It turns out that beggars who are blind can make more money in the poor streets of Calcutta, one of the worst slums in the world.
