Do blind people wear wrist watches? (Red Dragon question)

[BillGates]

I watched Red Dragon the other night and thought it was a pretty sweet movie - but the "blind" chick was bothering me.

1. She wore a totally normal wrist watch with hands on it.
2. She worked in some sort of photo lab.... WTF - the only job worse for a blind person would be a painter, I swear!
3. When she was dropped off at home one night, she had lights on in her kitchen but she was home alone. That seems somewhat pointless.
4. When she is taken to the "Red Dragon's" house, she is using a walking stick but it is not touching the ground to feel the surface of what is ahead of her as she walks. Her stick goes right over a little step without touching it and she goes down the step without ever "feeling" it.

I know that some people can be considered legally blind but can still see outlines of shapes and nearby things, but she was portrayed in the movie (as I saw it) as being totally blind.

I thought that at the end it was going to be revealed that she wasn't really blind after all but it didn't happen.


Other parts she did a GREAT job doing blind stuff - she poured coffee for herself and a guest and had a finger inside the edge of the coffee cup so she could feel the heat of the coffee and know it was full - very good detail.


Maybe I was just too picky, but for a movie soooo engrossed in details, I thought it was kind of odd.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: BillGates
I watched Red Dragon the other night and thought it was a pretty sweet movie - but the "blind" chick was bothering me.

1. She wore a totally normal wrist watch with hands on it.
2. She worked in some sort of photo lab.... WTF - the only job worse for a blind person would be a painter, I swear!
3. When she was dropped off at home one night, she had lights on in her kitchen but she was home alone. That seems somewhat pointless.
4. When she is taken to the "Red Dragon's" house, she is using a walking stick but it is not touching the ground to feel the surface of what is ahead of her as she walks. Her stick goes right over a little step without touching it and she goes down the step without ever "feeling" it.

1) A watch is also jewelry
2) Her job required her to handle extremely sensitive film, she was adept at working in total darkness - Something those of us who see aren't good at.
3) Stupid point, there are plenty of legitimate reasons for having the lights on. For instance, lights on are an indication to the rest of us that someone is home, everything is OK, etc. More for other people's benefit than hers.
4) Have you ever watched someone walk with a stick?

Read the book, there is far more detail there that could never be put into a movie.

Viper GTS

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: BillGates
I watched Red Dragon the other night and thought it was a pretty sweet movie - but the "blind" chick was bothering me.

1. She wore a totally normal wrist watch with hands on it.
2. She worked in some sort of photo lab.... WTF - the only job worse for a blind person would be a painter, I swear!
3. When she was dropped off at home one night, she had lights on in her kitchen but she was home alone. That seems somewhat pointless.
4. When she is taken to the "Red Dragon's" house, she is using a walking stick but it is not touching the ground to feel the surface of what is ahead of her as she walks. Her stick goes right over a little step without touching it and she goes down the step without ever "feeling" it.

1) A watch is also jewelry
2) Her job required her to handle extremely sensitive film, she was adept at working in total darkness - Something those of us who see aren't good at.
3) Stupid point, there are plenty of legitimate reasons for having the lights on. For instance, lights on are an indication to the rest of us that someone is home, everything is OK, etc. More for other people's benefit than hers.
4) Have you ever watched someone walk with a stick?

Read the book, there is far more detail there that could never be put into a movie.

Viper GTS

I think I will have to read the book - those suggestions you gave are perfectly acceptable, but somewhat unlikely. She could just as easily worn a bracelet as a watch. I can see maybe she wore a watch to try to "fit in" and appear normal...

I don't know, those details were kinda weak - and she had NO way of knowing that step was there in a place she had never been before.


EDIT: fixed a typo, shouldn't be typing while doing tech support at the same time.

 

[Yossarian]

Maybe she wore a watch so when people come up to her and ask "what time is it?", she can hold out her wrist and go "you tell me!"

 

[cjchaps]

Maybe it was a talking watch that looked normal. You know, you press a button and it tells you what time it is.

 

[sandorski]

Yes, many bliind people wear wrist watches. Some use Digital watches that speak out the time, while others wear watches that have a flip top lens that allows contact with the hands and such in order to tell the time by touch.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Yes, many bliind people wear wrist watches. Some use Digital watches that speak out the time, while others wear watches that have a flip top lens that allows contact with the hands and such in order to tell the time by touch.

What HE said.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Someone that I used to ride public transportation with was blind and had a wrist watch. It spoke the time.

 

[FoBoT]

i work with a blind guy

he wears a watch

but it talks

sometimes when i get into work, Ron (the blind guy) is sitting in the lab with the lights off, he has no reason to turn them on, so he doesn't

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Someone that I used to ride public transportation with was blind and had a wrist watch. It spoke the time.

sweet! i need to get me one of those. no longer will i expend the effort to look at my wristwatch.

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Yes, many bliind people wear wrist watches. Some use Digital watches that speak out the time, while others wear watches that have a flip top lens that allows contact with the hands and such in order to tell the time by touch.

Yup, my wife's blind and always wears a watch. She used to wear a braille watch which she'd use by feeling the position of the hands. Now she wears a talking watch that announces the time with a button press and has alarm functions and such.

Originally posted by: BillGates
3. When she was dropped off at home one night, she had lights on in her kitchen but she was home alone. That seems somewhat pointless.

Actually many blind people are taught to do that when growing up. It's a security thing, if burglars saw that the lights were always off they might assume the place is empty or something.

Originally posted by: BillGates
4. When she is taken to the "Red Dragon's" house, she is using a walking stick but it is not touching the ground to feel the surface of what is ahead of her as she walks. Her stick goes right over a little step without touching it and she goes down the step without ever "feeling" it.

Yeah that doesn't sound right. Normally the tip of the cane is gently tapped back and forth in front of the user, usually 'trailing' along something familiar like a curb or the grass edge along a sidewalk.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Someone that I used to ride public transportation with was blind and had a wrist watch. It spoke the time.

sweet! i need to get me one of those. no longer will i expend the effort to look at my wristwatch.

You have to reach over and hit the button on the watch for it to talk to you; it doesn't anounce the time every half hour or so. You may as well look at it. But, if it did, that would be kickass!

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

You have to reach over and hit the button on the watch for it to talk to you; it doesn't anounce the time every half hour or so. You may as well look at it. But, if it did, that would be kickass!

Actually many have an announce feature as well.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

You have to reach over and hit the button on the watch for it to talk to you; it doesn't anounce the time every half hour or so. You may as well look at it. But, if it did, that would be kickass!

Actually many have an announce feature as well.

I so want one of these

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

You have to reach over and hit the button on the watch for it to talk to you; it doesn't anounce the time every half hour or so. You may as well look at it. But, if it did, that would be kickass!

Actually many have an announce feature as well.

I so want one of these

Here's where I bought my wife's watch, most are under $30: MaxiAids.com

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

You have to reach over and hit the button on the watch for it to talk to you; it doesn't anounce the time every half hour or so. You may as well look at it. But, if it did, that would be kickass!

Actually many have an announce feature as well.

I so want one of these

Because the people around you want to know the time as well?

 

[squirrel dog]

The brail at drive up atm's freaks me out .

 

[UCDznutz]

I cracked the hell up when the Red Dragon guy was dropping her off and she says "When will I see you again?"

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: UCDznutz
I cracked the hell up when the Red Dragon guy was dropping her off and she says "When will I see you again?"

Heh, that is pretty sweet, I never even noticed that...

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: BillGates

Originally posted by: UCDznutz
I cracked the hell up when the Red Dragon guy was dropping her off and she says "When will I see you again?"

Heh, that is pretty sweet, I never even noticed that...

They 'watch' tv too.