August 16 - An Odd Movie Experience

Lyle and I rarely go to the movies for entertainment and so we are both vaguely unaware of the names of popular current shows and the actors who play in them.  A long flight though, such as the one coming home from Italy, sometimes sees a break in this pattern. I only enjoy a movie where the dialogue is sufficient for me to follow the plot and the action, so it is a bit of a guessing game to select one from the brief descriptions that are given with the titles. On our recent flight home, we chose to watch The Angriest Man in Brooklyn. The brief synopsis told us that it was about a man who was given a misdiagnosis of having only 90 minutes to live. The cause of the illness, an aneurysm, was real but the time frame was not. In light of the sad news of the death of Robin Williams this past week, you might imagine our surprise to discover that he was cast in the lead role of this tale. It was a somewhat eerie feeling to watch the character on screen facing a life and death crisis and to think of the events that had only a few days previously been played out in the actor’s real life. On a separate note, and more to do with the topic of this blog, White Cane Connections, I must add that the touch screens on the seat backs in aircrafts are totally frustrating for someone who can’t see. There is no audio for directions and so when I am travelling alone I always need to either ask for assistance or forget the whole idea of in-flight entertainment. Sometimes I think that it is the little things about vision loss that are the biggest cause of frustration.