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Review - BBC Talent Website
By John Flemming, courtesy of the BBC.
Warning - contains spoilers! Watch the film here.
Dear Jon,
I have Multiple Sclerosis and my fiancée has a visual impairment. Consequently I could relate closely to The Librarian's Dream I just found on the BBC site. Thought you might be interested in the review I sent them below...
John Flemming.
"A truly wonderful short film. Sean, a deaf librarian, is confronted by a mysterious man and the offer of hearing again at the price, we eventually discover, of him losing his girlfriend's love and affection. We travel with Sean as he is bombarded by sounds unfamiliar to him - his own breathing, a train announcer, religious music. But it is the sound, and more significantly sight, of his girlfriend having sex that ceases to be one of just aural shock as we begin to see the real shock that his actions would yield.
We see that his deafness in the library makes interaction with another human being difficult, but even when hearing, he has no two-way voice conversation with anyone and we gain the real impression that this would be difficult (signified by the fence in the playground). This is perhaps compounded by us seeing him listening to music through headphones which gives the irony that he only wants to hear what all others do not - he is in his own world of imagination even without real sound.
We are told that these sounds are merely an illusion for him but can be attained at the price of losing his girlfriend. He decides to maintain his deafness and we see him and his girlfriend kissing and together. As the 'mysterious man' leaves we are left feeling that the right choice has been made as the man seems irritated at his lack of success and we are happy for that as we resent his cruel conundrum. He is beaten by human sprit and love and Sean's realisation that love will never fade. Sean beats his own melodrama. We are left feeling that love conquers all and the notion of "no pain no gain" is reversed to "no gain no pain".
An inspirational film, making you count the blessings that you have and developing the realisation that fate is fate and should never be changed or bought."
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