The Unconquered film was narrated by the filmmaker as she showed clips of Helen Keller's everyday life with her companions and meetings with influential people. The film gave an intimate glance of how she seamlessly lived her life and communicated with eloquence and brilliance through the camera and the people who she connected everyday. The title accurately portrayed her character and perseverance of trying to see and hear the world around her - through taste, touch, and smell.
I noticed that documentaries which won the Oscars are based on a topic or story that is incredibly remarkable, modest, compelling, life changing, a major event, overcame through limitations, and highlighting new technologies. The winning story came across through her adaptations of braille and raised lettering on devices around her home, her humanitarian work all over the world for the blind and deaf, her suffragist and political passions for funding social programs, and her mission of helping people on successfully adapting the world to them. All stacks against her, she graduated from Harvard (Radcliffe) and earned an Oscar. Along with those achievements, she kept connected through people who admired her work.
I believe that the emotional part of the story gave the audience the "ah" end. A film must make the viewer's heart have a rapid pulse and raise the body to another level either by height or to the ground. With that pulse rate or cooling stage, the invisible tears or punch in the wall cleanse the mind that someone or something is evolving society for the greater good or acknowledge a major issue. The impact of the film makes a viewer breathe something new or going to another higher element on the periodic table of truth.
Overall, the filming of the everyday life reminded me of the shows - Leave It to Beaver or My Three Sons in the context of dialogues and everyday objects. However, the clips based on the meetings (Eisenhower, Martha Graham, Gertrude Stein, Jascha Heifetz, and Robert Murray Helpmann) gave me the heart-racing sessions of two powerful minds coming together in terms of pollinating inside of a flower while its petals are closed then open - released and coming out permanently changed. This fascination carries throughout history from the pairing of power from rulers to modern day celebrities to the merger of companies. Documentaries based on remarkable people are important to society and our culture.
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