3. It Teaches Us about Perspective

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Ming Wang is a heroic doctor in Sight, but he’s no miracle worker. Smartly, the film depicts stories of success and stories of failure.

In the movie’s final moments, his revolutionary technique brings sight to one young girl but fails on another girl who is roughly the same age. Incredibly, though, the latter girl rediscovers her joy in life despite her lack of vision. She laughs. She plays with friends. She’s no different than her peers. (“She has moved beyond the tragedy of her past and embraces the present with happiness and joy and love,” a nun says.)

Sight is a film about the gift of vision. It’s also a film about perspective.

“We learn more from our failures,” Wang told Crosswalk Headlines. “I [didn’t] want the movie to be just about exaltation of good news and good things, because that’s not reality.”

He wants viewers to ask: What can I learn from life’s trials?

“There’s more to life than what we see,” Wang said. That includes the spiritual realm. In Sight, Wang experiences a Romans 8:28-type moment, as the tragedies of his childhood form within him a resolve to help others. “The present is made possible by the past,” we hear throughout the film.

Sight is an inspiring drama that challenges viewers to see beyond their immediate circumstances. It also urges viewers to consider what lies beyond the virtual realm.

As Wang’s life demonstrates, our past experiences, no matter how painful, can become the crucible in which our greatest strengths are forged.

Sight is rated PG-13 for violence and thematic material. The film contains no coarse language or sexuality. Violent material includes: a soldier punches a teacher and slaps a boy. Soldiers push an elderly man in a wheelchair over and then kick him.

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