Recently saw this film and was left speechless at the end due to its powerful performances and story. The acting is of the very highest quality and the film expresses the "human-ness" of the situation very well. All characters are three dimensional with no lazy stereotyping of goodies and baddies but complex characters trying to make the best of their difficult situations. There's a very powerful scene when the camera pans back from the cell where Brian Keenan & John McCarthy are being held in to show their captors also captive in a small room outside. Without justifying their actions it does help to explain the tense situation and unexpected bouts of violence and indeed kindness. The film also manages to bring out some of the humour of the relationship of two very different men being forced together in such a confined space and how they learn to expand their own limits and preconceived ideas. This film shows the triumph of the human spirit to conquer even the darkest and most challenging times.
Review of Blind Flight
