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Still with all this seeming arbitrariness of the plot, the movie managed to be completely predictable. One unbelievable event followed the next (Russia must be very small because they are all bumping into each other all the time), the motivation of the female lead character comprehensible (why does she still follow him after they got off the ship? Why doesn't she try to borrow a mobile phone on the ship to call somebody?), the side stories were completely ridiculous (was the story with the mother and the boyfriend supposed to be funny? And what was the story with the younger sister about?). However, somewhere in the middle it seemed like the script writers didn't know where to go from there. This film started out very promising with the story about a director who loses his sight and a blind woman who is bound to help him. I was very touched by this, and I can definitely recommend it. An affecting story, outstanding performances and an excellent, award-winning soundtrack make this in my opinion one of the best German movies ever. Also, I watched it with the audio commentary for the visually impaired, just for fun ) The dialog in this movie is as mediocre and clumsy as in any other German movie, but the physical acting is definitely brilliant! It's gotta be very hard playing a blind person, but those two actors are doing it perfectly with their gestures and their rigid gaze. Since it's about being blind, you somewhat empathize with the characters and their way of seeing with all their other senses. It's hard to describe it, you could say it's a very visual movie, though not in a visual sense.
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Even though I'm not a big fan of love stories and of German movies, I really liked this movie because it's a very unusual, strong kind of story. Jakob's origin is the one confusing thing in this movie - the way I figured, he must have grown up in Iceland because of his slight accent, to an Icelandic father and a German mother who was of Russian descent. Together they somewhat accidentally set off to Russia, where Jakob wants to visit his sick mother. He doesn't accept his fate and wants to kill himself, until he meets Lily who was born blind and who was sent to him by a rehabilitation center for the blind. Jakob, a young theater director in Hamburg of Icelandic descent, goes blind after having a serious car accident. What the movie completely fails to show is the reality that without a guide person a blind man or woman is completely lost outside his/her familiar surroundings. That there are still many things you can enjoy, if you only make the effort to attend special training, re-organise your life, and learn to "see" the world in a different way. The movie was trying to get the message across, that going blind is not the end of your life. And no decent person with eyesight, let alone her own mother, would do that to her. Only a suicidal blind person would do that. She asks her friend and mother to just leave her alone at some desolate gas station/restaurant in the middle of rural Russia. Lilly walks around with her white stick in a neighborhood she has never been to before. Having worked in a social project with blind people, I could not help to think throughout the movie that the plot was quite flawed. This is about the best thing about this movie. Other characters like Lilly's mother and sister are only briefly shown as somewhat weird people whose behavior is mostly following clichés or otherwise leaves a lot of questions with the audience without exploring it further. The movie's love story between the blind-since-birth Lilly and the just-gone-blind Jakob is adorable, cute, lovely.