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‘Blink’ Review: Slight but Moving Nat Geo Doc Follows a Family of Six on an Unusual Bucket-List Trip
When three young children are diagnosed with a degenerative sight condition, their parents determine to take them on an epic journey around the world.
As a starting point for a National Geographic-backed documentary, this situation has plenty of potential — the circumstances are self-evidently emotional, and as a relatively little-known condition, there’s also the possibility of raising awareness of the specific issue of retinitis pigmentosa for a wider audience, as well as a broader opportunity to represent the lived experience of visual impairment onscreen. Edmund Stenson and “Navalny” director Daniel Roher ’s film opens with a spectacular, “Lord of the Rings”-like shot of six tiny figures trekking across a remote snow-blown landscape, seen above from a God’s-eye view and then silhouetted against the horizon. He’s very small, so that’s understandable, though there’s also room to wonder whether the focus on planning the fabulous adventure around the world as a positive way of dealing with the children’s condition has overshadowed having time and space to reckon with the material facts.
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