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I Wish i was Blind Now
CraigHollands3 November 2016
The first thing i noticed when "Den of Darkness" started was how robotic the "actors" were, it felt like watching a bunch of Kristen Stewart impressionists talking to each other with their expressionless faces and inability to move their facial muscles, another thing which annoyed me was the fact the the main character Hellen feels the need to remind us she is blind every 5 seconds for the first half of the movie, we get it, you are blind, i can tell by the way you walk around the house as if you are drunk, just stellar acting there. Then something really special happens, whoever watches this film will be treated to the worlds slowest most boring "training" montage in which Hellen manages to to overcome her depression of the fact she is blind. The script was awful, real people don't talk or phrase things how these people do in this film, someone actually says "kisses like strawberries" to which i responded by proceeding to open my window and consider jumping to my impending doom, but the film was nearly over so i decided to continue to watch it, i really could only find one thing i liked about this film and that was Rosa the maid, played by Ada Luz Pla, you were a beacon of light in a Den of Darkness.
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3/10
Don't let me fall
nogodnomasters28 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Hellen (sic) (Monika Tilling) is blind and will be able to see once she "forgives herself" for an accident we see in flashbacks. She lives with her doctor husband Arthur (Eric Giancoli) in a big house. Arthur has hired Rosa (Ada Luz Pla) who is no Anne Sullivan, to take care of her. There is also an oversexed neighbor (who appears to be uncredited Sandra Lindo- writer, director, producer and speller of Helen with 2 L's) written in to give the story dimension and 90 minutes in the can.

Hellen, in addition to driving my spell checker crazy, hears things and believes there is someone else in the house. Arthur claims it is her condition which will be better once she alas, "forgives herself." The soundtrack was done in lame "made for TV" style and except for one quick F-word in the beginning, this could have been made for TV, PG stuff. The acting was what one would expect from a "Lifetime" type of production. The whole plot made me groan.

Guide: 1 F-word. No sex. No one sneaking a peak at a pretty blind woman.
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