Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben (2017) Reviews

• A life inspiring movie!!

  cristina202017-03-28

  Such a great movie!! A great drama based on real facts! Nothing more touching and inspiring than seeing the struggles of a person and the ambition while pursuing one's dream inspired by true stories!!! Which reminds us that we can do it all if we really put our minds and souls to it! I strongly recommend it!

• A must see true story, poignant and funny

  peterchadha2018-03-11

  As an British born person, it's not every day you see a German or even foreign movie, let alone write a review for one. But after watching this sweet movie I felt compelled to tell the world to watch it. This movie is the story of a half Sri Lankan boy who dreams of working for a five star hotel. His life ambitions are sadly broken when his retina detaches and he becomes partially blind. He can't go to university. After further being rejected for apprenticeships due to his disability, he then sets about getting a job by spoofing that he fully sighted. As with the stories about blind people, the scenario makes for comical effects. But it is matched in equal parts by the heroism of the protagonist, the sadness and poignancy of the situation, the complexity and joy of the human relations in the background. A sweet feel good movie, made so much better by knowing that it's true. We were lucky enough to find this movie on Amazon Prime, I hope with widescale distribution others will enjoy this as much as our family did.

• Worth watching

  Saiyan_Prince_Vegeta2018-03-02

  Good movie, except the ending. I expected some wrap up of the story and a hint of what happened later in his life, but it just ended. Other than that it is a motivating and even unbelievable story. It is unbelievable that no one noticed that he was blind. Pursue your goals no matter what and you will succeed.

• Positively surprised

  Horst_In_Translation2017-07-23

  "Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben" is a German 110-minute movie from 2017, so the day I am writing this review it is still a release from this year, a pretty new and fresh film. It is the newest effort by prolific filmmaker Marc Rothemund and having seen some of his stuff, there is some good and some bad I would say, so I wasn't sure what to expect. But it all turned out well. This may have to do with the fact that the central character here Saliya Kahawatte is based on an actually living person and that one also worked closely with the makers of this film it seems. Good choice. I am not a fan of lead actor Kostja Ullmann at all though. I have seen movies where he is genuinely terrible, but here he was a smart casting decision I guess. he still isn't doing anything special at all I would say, but he also does nothing bad, so it is all good. One criticism I have though is that there are really many talented actors in here (Ramadan, Pistor, Mühe, Farooq, von Bülow) and that several of these were somewhat wasted as their characters were there and had conversations with the protagonist, but really had nothing too impressive to offer and could have been left out of the film entirely. But that's also almost my only problem. Another would be that the sex references (the sex scene and the talk towards the end) are not working at all, but I (don't) understand that every German comedy these days needs to have these for whatever reason. The positive luckily is still much more frequent than the negative here. The general idea and plot may be pretty absurd, but eventually the film is all about making the impossible possible as we see a man who is almost blind managing to become a certificate that allows him to work in a hotel thanks to his drive and dedication. Yes the end is a bit too much on the happy side with him even turning down the offer of the man who was the main antagonist for a long time and becoming his own boss and the love interest showing up out of nowhere and obviously becoming his girlfriend, but I can look beyond that because the movie was really entertaining, smart and significant in a way I hoped for, but did not expect. Ullmann did a good job just like everybody else. Matschenz is in it from the very beginning for the lighter parts and comedy entertainment really and he is working the script well too, maybe gave the best performance in the entire thing. As a whole, this film certainly deserves a thumbs-up and that's what it gets. There are some great moments even and these are evened out by some weak moments Ik mentioned earlier that overall we have a rock-solid outcome. Now Germany has a successful film too about a lobby boy. Go see it.

• Just a feel good, great flick

  meisterstein2017-06-23

  I saw this movies yesterday and I have to say, I was on the floor laughing. It was so funny, although a rather in a way sad story. But great acting, a tremendous story and just wooow. I just wanted to hug that guy. You could not write a story like that. This was life as it happens. A must see movie for anyone.