Why don't people do their research?

Rating: Null/10 (3 August 2004)

I really don't know who to blame...the actress or the director. Don't people research their characters? This is the worse portrayal of a blind person I've ever seen in my life! It ruined the entire movie for me. First off, blind people don't run. They don't run on flat ground and they don't run on hilly ground. In the Special Olympics, do you ever have blind people competing in the 100 yard dash? In one scene, the girl hands the guy her cane-walks in the house-comes dashing out of the house and reaches for her cane laying just outside the door. Does she also have ESP? Then, at one point she's standing at the top of some some steep stairs next to someone and not holding on to anything. Regardless of how long a person has been blind, they do not have the best sense of balance and standing on top of steep stairs next to someone, fearless, is unfathomable. Even the other people I know who saw this caught the actress speaking and looking into people's eyes. If you're making a movie with someone portraying a person with a disability, do your research. Case in point..."My Left Foot".