I am not blind either but my fiance is. I feel like it's a little hard to ask this question to blind people because they can't really see the visual aspects of the acting to see if it's realistic. Like daredevil is a great show with a great actor but I don't think it's a very accurate portrayal of a blind person. I actually thought the CW series, "in the dark" did a pretty good job, although a lot of blind people were upset that there wasn't a blind actress. Most portrayals of blind people in film and television and literature are just wildly inaccurate and stupid. The touching face trope will set my fiance off. The wise old sage blind man is pretty common. The odly horny blind person is pretty common. The kung fu blind person. My fiance wrote her english literature thesis in college on how bad the portrayals in literature were.

I can't say I've ever seen a film that accurately portrays blindness before. From what I've seen, the characters are either used as just comic relief (like "haha they walked into something", but don't get me wrong, we can be hilarious ourselves) or we're like some kind of superhero with 'enhanced senses'.

All I can say is talk to people who are VI or Blind, we're just normal people with our own dreams and ambitions at the end of the day, we just happen to not be able to see very well, or at all. :)

I mean, the daredevil netflix show had it pretty right, the parts when he was matt murdock, at least. From what I can tell anyway, as a blind person myself. Lol though of course, the daredevil bits are not reality in any form, as he's some dude with super senses and outstanding parkour and fighting abilities.

tv show but Jocasta from Outlander is decent. she's a stubborn high-class Scottish Lady, who can be a bit of bitch sometimes, and she's happened to have lost sight with age. I think she can sense light. she has a butler who helps her with letters, introducing people and leading her when needed but yeah she's okay.

but yeah mostly it's either they're blind but not really because of some fantasy thing. in writing it's a lot of inspiration porn. I often ask if it is really necessary to create a blind character when the author (you OP) doesn't know anything about it and there is a thing with write what you know, I'm sure you can modify that for screenplays as well

We almost need a sticky for this.

Murphy Mason from In the Dark. She does one bit of face touching which they were obviously told not to do by their consultants so she has some lines about how she doesn't do that, then does it anyway, but otherwise she's pretty good. She is a bit too capable sometimes when the plot needs her to be.

Emma Brody from Blink, from 1993. She spends the opening act of the movie blind and is generally a hedonist and great fun. Someone tells her to count sheep to fall asleep, and she's all like "I don't remember sheep, I just keep picturing Wile E. Coyote."

Selina from A Patch Of Blue. It's from the 60s so you have to give them a break on some of the politics, but honestly her attitude isn't too bad. It's also a very interesting civil rights story. There's even some behind the scenes about the actress Shelley Winters visiting a 1960s school for the blind, which is pretty primitive with lots of basket weaving but there's something about that movie.

The thing about these movies is that every one of them has the character being blind as a major plot point. I'm trying to think of movies where someone just happened to be blind because guess what, some people are, and they do have things happen in their lives which aren't about that.

I have Aniridia. I can see but I'm not completely blind. But I still need my love's arm to walk me to and from the car at stores. The sunlight is just to bright, I physically hurt to open my eyes. So in the sun I might as well be blind. Light sensitivity is my biggest enemy. I can't have lights on in the room when I first wake and man when I get migraines I can't even handle the tv on the lowest bright setting. At night it's nice besides all the blindingly brights lights EVERYWHERE! So night time, I'm just as blind.
If I bump into something I just laugh it off. But I wasn't always able to laugh it off. It use to make me cry. It was a personal hurdle I had to jump over. I felt so helpless for relying on others to do things for me. I wanted to do them myself.
School...school was hard. My mother didn't want me going to a blind school so I went to a small town public school instead. It was hard taking notes, even being in the front row wouldn't help me see. All the bright lights in the classrooms plus distance from board was never a good combination. All the glasses in the world have never helped.
It's definitely something I had to adjust to but it's something I'll live with for the rest of my life so had to lol.

Blindness is a spectrum. A majority of blind individuals have residual vision. Most forms of media presents blind people as individuals with complete sight loss.

Also, a story doesn’t need to be about blindness to feature a character with a visual impairment. Consider any story and switching any character to a character that is blind while possessing the same attributes. What if Katniss from The Hunger Games was blind? Consider writing any story that doesn’t revolve around blindness.

I think it called “in the dark” on Netflix. And I love it because she has a real personality like it’s not “I’m so sad because I’m blind, yes I’m blind. [touches faces]”. The only thing I don’t like is that the actress they choose isn’t actually blind. She does a amazing job I mean like absolutely terrific but they should’ve cast a blind person for a blind role. I mean it’s so much better than other things I’ve watched with blind people. Like one I watched the lady would just sit in a chair in the house and never do anything she was just a side character but still.

I’m legally blind though not blind which I wish they would explain the fact that not everyone sees just black. It’s different for everyone. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a legally blind character in tv they always blind but like seeing all black blind.

Places in the Heart. It’s an older movie but very realistic.

My blindness is from brain trauma. I am legally bound with low vision and night blind, for me, all I see are more binding lights everywhere. When I look forward I only have a right peripheral field. I do not see in front of and to the left. I am extremely light sensitive and where sunglasses for this, even indoors. I also have double vision and am legally blind in that visual field from 8 ft and closer. I have contacts for 8 feet and further that also correct the double vision, but only in the distance. Thanks to blind drivers program I am a driver incr again, but, sadly, since I get out to walk I still need my cane. I have no dimensions either...everything is flat, like looking at a painted picture. I have at least 8 pair of glasses but still cannot read due to what my diagnosis is, Left Homonymous Heminopsia. My brain is dead for that receiving of a picture but my eyes are basically fine, astigmatism, the rest of my visual impairment is all brain related. I also have communication. Glitches relating to the blindness as well as Charles Bonnet Syndrome where I see visual hallucinations. I use accessibility to get through my day as well as other tech to read, recognize faces, money denomination etc. It's nice when I can go without my cane and hold my mans elbow. When the sun goes down though, extreme eye pain from the lights and headaches if I am not in my own environment. I have learned to laugh at myself, well, because sometimes the shit I do or see is downright funny. I can literally miss a building if it's on .y left but see the shiny dime on the floor 10 ft away on the right.

I quite enjoyed In The Winter The Wind Blows on Netflix. Its a Korean drama with no English audio sadly but the sighted actor represents blind people well. Also its an incredibly moving story.

Also in Avatar the Last Airbender there is a character named Toph who is funny and makes many blind jokes which are funny and a pretty strong and inspiring chracter

My favoruite Tv Show of all time is Daredevil the Netflix series the main character is a blind super hero and from hearing the series and from what my father says it is pretty accurate

Masks starring Cher.

This is random but the movie Contact has a blind guy in it. It is a little exaggerated bc I think he's supposed to have super sensitive hearing bc of his visual impairment but otherwise, he's just a normal guy. No super powers, no ridiculous senses, just a guy doing his job with a team of people. I thought the actor did a great job with it. Probably the most accurate I've seen so far (at least off the top of my head).

It was a short role in a tv series but I liked how the tv show Nip/Tuck portrayed it with the character Natasha, who ends up dating one of the main characters for a short while. She was independent, had a good job, was stylish and beautiful and had a sex life. They played a little into the heightened sense thing (her job was creating perfume/cologne) but not wildly out of place really. The show aired on FX years ago (I think it steered in 2003 or thereabouts).

I am not currently blind, so feel free to take this with a grain of salt, but I felt that Julia's Eyes (Los Ojos De Julia, a Spanish film) overall did an amazing job. It's a horror film where the main character has a vision impairment that gets worse with stress, but is trying to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of her sister. As the movie progresses and she's put into more and more stressful situations, the camerawork changes so that we as the audience see less and less meaningful information. For example, when she's more fully blind but comes face to face with the killer, the scene is shot lower to the ground so that we as the audience can see where the characters are relative to each other and can understand what the characters are doing, but we still can't get a good look at the killer because the protagonist can no longer see well enough to get a good look at him either.

If you have particular sensitivities regarding horror films, sight, and eyes, this movie isn't for you. But goddamn is it a solid thriller.

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Daredevil unless you're talking reality then idk