[stylist] Comments Needed for Blindness Review in O: theOprahMagazine

[Angela fowler]

Way to go Atty. Yes, that web site is a headache. I'm braving it as we
speak. 

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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Comments Needed for Blindness Review in O:
theOprahMagazine

Well I wrote one, it is below for anyone who wants to read it.

I never thought I'd see the day when Oprah would condone discrimination and
lies. When a person is loosing their eye sight the last thing they need is
to have respected people condoning myths and ignoring frightening lies about
blindness.
I saw the movie "Blindness" and it was pathetic. Even those who have
recently lost their sight can wipe their own butts. They feed themselves and
know how to shower. According to this incredibly un insightful book/movie
they can't find their way to the bathroom but can bury people in the yard?
They can't find each others faces to kiss but can have sex? Please.
It is a poorly written book made into a ridiculous movie with no cohesion.
Even a blind man can see that.
The movie isn't about the great woman who saved the day, it is about fear
and helplessness.   It is about savagery and the loss of humanity. The woman
who played the doctors wife kills the guy who was born blind and he is the
only one with a gun? Please. Oh, a gun that never runs out of bullets? So
the guards didn't search the people? If you're driving in a car and go blind
do you go home? Um, no, you go to the hospital!
I have no idea how the book even got published. The author rambles, has
amateurish POV switches and has no conception of blindness what so ever. I'd
be ashamed if I had a magazine that wrote such a raving review about a sad
ridiculous movie that has absolutely no basis in reality at all. Yes, it's
fiction, but the best fiction is the believable kind. These don't even come
close to being real people. It appears that the author was trying to satisfy
some kind of juvenile thrill and used something that terrified him to do so.
I truly believed that Oprah had more class then that.     I read her
biography and found her strong and brave, caring and on the side of those
who try to make a difference. I'm saddened to find I'm wrong.
And your form isn't very blind friendly, it is miss labeled for screen
readers.


Regards,
Atty

"Qui docet, discit."
"He who teaches, learns"

I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget
what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Thanks Dragon Rider :)


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