Blind Spot

What do you do if you are a reporter with a deadline and you are going blind This French drama answers that question Arnold is a crack television reporter assigned to cover an uprising in northern Sri Lanka Recently he has suffered great headaches and his eyes have been tired Before leaving he has a doctor check him and is appalled by the diagnosis that he is going blind If he goes to Sri Lanka the stress could hasten his loss of sight If he does not go he will lose the assignment to a rival reporter Instead of going he locks himself in his Paris apartment and creates the documentary from a combination of new and old video footage He suffers through many emotional outbursts in the process The highlight of his video is a scene in which he using complex computerwork inserts himself into SriLankan street situation Though the documentary is excellent Arnold is crushed when his editor demands the scene be deleted from the film because it slows the film down