Written and directed by Sean Baker and Taiwanese-born Shih-Ching Tsou, Take Out is a drearily simplistic fictional work, shot on video, in the style of cinéma-vérité. It garnered raves upon its 2008 release, but really for its admirable intent to cast a sympathetic light on someone whose real-life counterpart might escape our concern, even our […]

Consequence reflecting cause: a contagion of blindness descending upon a city suggests how blind people have become to the needs and rights, indeed the reality, of others. It is a white blindness rather than a pitch blackness, like a featureless daytime sky dropping down to blot out vision below. The single sighted soul among those […]