I can see what you're saying and where you're coming from. What I can tell is my own experience. I was legally blind as a child, also from congenital cataract, and my sight improved once I hit the age of 13. Even though I live only half the number of years that Virgil lived in darkness, it took me about a year and a half to get used to living as a sighted person. And even now I still have problems with certain colours, certain alphabets and numbers, going down steps, going down slopes, judging distance, distinguishing shadows from holes or other obstacles and so on. And yes, in the first three months during which I could see, I couldn't tell objects from its reflections or pictures. I have never mistaken a person acting like having a seizure as actually having one (but only because I never encountered such a scene then), but I have broken through a glass sliding door.
Needless to say, I hate unadorned glass sliding doors. Heh.
That being said, I didn't enjoy the movie. I am madly in awe of Val Kilmer and watches whatever he's in no matter what people say, I bought this DVD and paid the obscene shipping charge from Amazon, and the subject matter interests me greatly because I can relate to it. However, I find the execution greatly wanting. The cinematography, the sound editing, the choice of soundtrack, the pacing of the plot, how the characters were played (yes, I found Virgil hard to watch *sobs* - Val, I still love you!), the way the scenes were framed... I just, I wanted so much to like this movie. Perhaps I'll watch it again. Maybe it gets better in second viewing.
Also, Ferris RAWKS!
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