Yes, the loud background music made it hard to hear the narration. If only it had been harder. There was so little inflection in the narrator's voice that for a long time I wasn't sure if he was a computer-generated voice, but eventually I concluded he was merely extremely bored. No doubt by the end of this gig he'd planned out what he was going to have for dinner down to the last detail.
The script was even worse. This is a movie supposedly about "The Blind Monkey" but although they named the baby's mother, they never name the baby but simply call her "the blind baby" or "Gia's blind daughter" as if they're afraid we're going to forget between one sentence and the next, and are determined to remind us as many times as possible in an hour. Over and over they stress how great a burden she is and how extraordinary her mother is for continuing to care for such a low-status baby with deformed eyes. It's reasonable to talk about some of the things the baby can't do, but it would have been far more interesting to *also* talk a lot more about the things she has learned how to do, and the ways she's adapted to dealing with the environment and the troop she lives with.
I genuinely think I'd have learned more if I'd watched with the sound off and just focused more on the visuals.
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