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Post by doppelganger on Mar 12, 2008 2:46:13 GMT -5
Hey guys, have you heard of the movie "Blindsight"? It is a documentary about blind Tibetan students climbing a 7000m (?) summit together with their blind teacher and a blind mountaineer. Here is some more information if you are interested: www.blindsightthemovie.com/4 years ago I read the first book of Sabriye Tenberken (she is German) where she discribed her way to Tibet and how she founded the school for the blind. That was about 10 years ago. She wrote about the same students who were climbing the mountain with her now. I'm so much looking forward to see the movie and see what became of the children from back then. |
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Post by inuvik on Mar 12, 2008 11:46:49 GMT -5
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Post by doppelganger on Mar 23, 2008 4:03:29 GMT -5
Ordering that very book at my local bookstore (yes, I'm oldfashioned) will be the first thing after work on tuesday! Thanks for the recommendation! I have seen Blindsight yesterday and loved it! If you get a chance to watch it somewhere and somehow, do it! I don't know much about Tibet (apart from the sad news you hear lately). So the setting itself was a new world to me. I do like the structure of the film a lot. They show you how the expedition came to life, introduce the climbers and their background while they go along. you get to know the (mostly sad) stories of the children. I didn't know much about Buddhism. But the general oppinion is they treat all beings with the highest respect. Huh! You'd think! They are ashamed of their blind children, hide them away for years or even sell them. The more you have to give Sabryie Tenberken credit for founding a school for the blind in Tibet, getting the kids out of their misery, offering them a future and take them on an expedition to a neighbouring summit of Mount Everest to show them what they are capable of! (But I must admit I didn'tlike her very much in the movie. She seemed a little ... annoying ... And I don't stand alone with that oppinion. Erik Weihenmayer on the other hand made me laugh a couple of times with his remarks. Incredible guy! So now his autobiography is on top of my book list!) The movie is really worth watching. I can highly recommend it (and don't miss the end credits! ;D) |
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Post by Katryna on Mar 23, 2008 8:16:02 GMT -5
Ordering that very book at my local bookstore (yes, I'm oldfashioned) will be the first thing after work on tuesday! Thanks for the recommendation I have seen Blindsight yesterday and loved it! If you get a chance to watch it somewhere and somehow, do it! I am not so old-fashioned and therefore just tried to put Blindsight in my Netflix Queue only to find that inspite of it being released in 2006, it is not out on DVD and no definite release date. Can that be??? |
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Post by doppelganger on Mar 23, 2008 8:22:50 GMT -5
I am not so old-fashioned and therefore just tried to put Blindsight in my Netflix Queue only to find that inspite of it being released in 2006, it is not out on DVD and no definite release date. Can that be??? Apparently yes. Keep in mind the movie is 2 years old and hitting movie theaters now! |
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Post by Katryna on Jan 3, 2009 22:24:25 GMT -5
I have seen Blindsight yesterday and loved it! If you get a chance to watch it somewhere and somehow, do it! I don't know much about Tibet (apart from the sad news you hear lately). So the setting itself was a new world to me. I do like the structure of the film a lot. They show you how the expedition came to life, introduce the climbers and their background while they go along. you get to know the (mostly sad) stories of the children. I didn't know much about Buddhism. But the general oppinion is they treat all beings with the highest respect. Huh! You'd think! They are ashamed of their blind children, hide them away for years or even sell them. The more you have to give Sabryie Tenberken credit for founding a school for the blind in Tibet, getting the kids out of their misery, offering them a future and take them on an expedition to a neighbouring summit of Mount Everest to show them what they are capable of! (But I must admit I didn'tlike her very much in the movie. She seemed a little ... annoying ... And I don't stand alone with that oppinion. Erik Weihenmayer on the other hand made me laugh a couple of times with his remarks. Incredible guy! So now his autobiography is on top of my book list!) The movie is really worth watching. I can highly recommend it (and don't miss the end credits! ;D) When this was originally posted in March, I put this movie on hold in my Netflix queue. It has now gotten a release date to DVD of January 13 in case anyone else is interested in seeing it. |
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Post by Katryna on Sept 6, 2009 20:54:48 GMT -5
I have seen Blindsight yesterday and loved it! If you get a chance to watch it somewhere and somehow, do it! I don't know much about Tibet (apart from the sad news you hear lately). So the setting itself was a new world to me. I do like the structure of the film a lot. They show you how the expedition came to life, introduce the climbers and their background while they go along. you get to know the (mostly sad) stories of the children. I didn't know much about Buddhism. But the general oppinion is they treat all beings with the highest respect. Huh! You'd think! They are ashamed of their blind children, hide them away for years or even sell them. The more you have to give Sabryie Tenberken credit for founding a school for the blind in Tibet, getting the kids out of their misery, offering them a future and take them on an expedition to a neighbouring summit of Mount Everest to show them what they are capable of! (But I must admit I didn'tlike her very much in the movie. She seemed a little ... annoying ... And I don't stand alone with that oppinion. Erik Weihenmayer on the other hand made me laugh a couple of times with his remarks. Incredible guy! So now his autobiography is on top of my book list!) The movie is really worth watching. I can highly recommend it (and don't miss the end credits! ;D) I finally watched this documentary film this evening, and dug up Doppelganger's old post about it. It is now an instant download on Netflix. It is an interesting study of the children as well as the sometimes conflicting philosophies of the sighted guides (and Erik Weihenmayer) vs. Sabryie Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg who ran the childrens' school. It is absolutely worth watching! |
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Post by matilda on Sept 9, 2009 18:08:28 GMT -5
I saw it on cable while I was at home supposed to be working a couple of weeks ago.
I liked Sabryie and Paul. What it raised for me was local attitudes, philosophies v those of Westerners and appropriateness of importing Western views - big question in our attitudes to assistance/intervention in developing economies. I too found local attitudes to the kids abbhorent - as you know I came to this Board really as I found BJ interesting in the context of the day job work I do ie workplace diversity stuff (and Ron Eldard is hot, of course) and my general human rights/dignity views but it seems to me to be a complex issue.
I thought S and P combined the application of their views with treading carefully around the ingrained stuff of the kids and the culture they've grown up in. Tough place in our terms eh? What about the little fulla who'd been stolen? Highly resonant for me as an Australian.
Nonetheless, the filmakers certainly explored those questions I thought and others around climbing in the Himalayas as Westerners etc and well worth watching .
M
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Post by Katryna on Sept 9, 2009 19:44:55 GMT -5
I saw it on cable while I was at home supposed to be working a couple of weeks ago. I liked Sabryie and Paul. What it raised for me was local attitudes, philosophies v those of Westerners and appropriateness of importing Western views - big question in our attitudes to assistance/intervention in developing economies. Are you saying that the competitive obsession with reaching the peak even though it would not have been able for the entire TEAM to make it represented a "Western" philosophy/attitude? I was really very shocked at the local attitudes towards the children and the things that were said to them about their blindness. Oh, and you are getting Karma for being honest about that secondary reason for watching B/J! The children's stories were all very sad, but happily it seems that they all have benefited from the school and their experiences and are living very productive lives, and more importantly - fulfilling their dreams. |
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Post by matilda on Sept 11, 2009 0:16:18 GMT -5
I saw it on cable while I was at home supposed to be working a couple of weeks ago. I liked Sabryie and Paul. What it raised for me was local attitudes, philosophies v those of Westerners and appropriateness of importing Western views - big question in our attitudes to assistance/intervention in developing economies. Are you saying that the competitive obsession with reaching the peak even though it would not have been able for the entire TEAM to make it represented a "Western" philosophy/attitude? Great discussion Kathy - the thing was I'm not sure which is why I thought the movie was great - I thought it was presented in a way that made us ask the questions. I'm still wondering, to be honest, if all the locals think we're all a mad pack of ninnies to be climbing those peaks for the challenge if it all. Will watch again and have another think. I was really very shocked at the local attitudes towards the children and the things that were said to them about their blindness. Oh, and you are getting Karma for being honest about that secondary reason for watching B/J! The children's stories were all very sad, but happily it seems that they all have benefited from the school and their experiences and are living very productive lives, and more importantly - fulfilling their dreams. Yes I agree and that to me was because of the combination of what S and P and Erik's mob bring to their lives. I ended up thinking that what the movie was about was a nobody's right, nobody's wrong kinda approach to life and combining different ways of approaching life to achieve a dream?? M |
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Post by matilda on Sept 11, 2009 0:17:25 GMT -5
Are you saying that the competitive obsession with reaching the peak even though it would not have been able for the entire TEAM to make it represented a "Western" philosophy/attitude? Great discussion Kathy - the thing was I'm not sure which is why I thought the movie was great - I thought it was presented in a way that made us ask the questions. I'm still wondering, to be honest, if all the locals think we're all a mad pack of ninnies to be climbing those peaks for the challenge if it all. Will watch again and have another think. I was really very shocked at the local attitudes towards the children and the things that were said to them about their blindness. Oh, and you are getting Karma for being honest about that secondary reason for watching B/J! The children's stories were all very sad, but happily it seems that they all have benefited from the school and their experiences and are living very productive lives, and more importantly - fulfilling their dreams. Yes I agree and that to me was because of the combination of what S and P and Erik's mob bring to their lives. I ended up thinking that what the movie was about was a nobody's right, nobody's wrong kinda approach to life and combining different ways of approaching life to achieve a dream?? M |
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