Directed by Ingmar Bergman
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
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Bengt is shot at a military target range trying to save a cute puppy. He survives, but not without enduring a Bergman nightmare scene in the hospital. He wakes up blind and struggles to adapt to his handicap. He is helped in his recovery by a nurse maid, the angelic Mai Zetterling, and they fall in love, though he doesn't quite realize it at first. He makes a crude remark about her social status, sending her off crying. Separated, he gets menial jobs as a pianist at a restaurant and later at a school for the blind. They are reunited, and after some initial problems things work out just fine. It's overly sentimental and a little familiar since Bergman just finished a film about a man going blind in A Ship Bound for India. However, this time he is interested in not only how the man adjusts to living without sight, but also how that changes his place in society.
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