{"id":38726,"date":"2023-02-02T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38726"},"modified":"2023-02-02T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:30:10","slug":"my-eyes-are-up-here-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/02\/my-eyes-are-up-here-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"My Eyes Are Up Here (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MyEyesAreUpHere-still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MyEyesAreUpHere-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MyEyesAreUpHere-still.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MyEyesAreUpHere-still-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MyEyesAreUpHere-still-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a>Director Nathan Morris\u2019 \u201cMy Eyes Are Up Here\u201d is the kind of romantic comedy film that you don\u2019t see often in the mainstream. It\u2019s a short that I really wanted more of, because his short, clocking in at fourteen minutes, feels like the prologue to a very funny, and quite sweet tale of two people who find destiny after a drunken night in bed. \u201cMy Eyes Are Up Here\u201d is a very sweet and entertaining slice of life that works toward subverting and breaking a lot of preconceived notions about the disabled.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A broken condom forces a woman \u2014 and her one-night stand \u2014 on a mission to the chemist for the morning after pill. Except it&#8217;s not so simple because she&#8217;s disabled, and a woman of colour. Their trip becomes an eye-opening odyssey, as her visible disabilities magically transform people into assholes, and places into obstacles. But there\u2019s something truly special about the way she approaches the world \u2013 so he\u2019s happy to tag along for the ride.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When we first meet character Sonia, she\u2019s a beautiful woman who awakens after a one night stand. We soon learn she\u2019s wheelchair bound. This doesn\u2019t hamper her independence though, as she spends a lot of her time trying to shed her one night fling Phil. He\u2019s however intent on accompanying her and charming her in a way she\u2019s not quite prepared for. \u201cMy Eyes Are Up Here\u201d is a very good peek inside the life of the physically disabled, and how they approach life. It\u2019s also a very good break from the clich\u00e9s of the romantic comedy, offering a more contemporary and realistic glimpse at a potentially budding romance.<\/p>\n<p>Co-stars Jillian Mercado and Colin Hoult are very good in their respective roles, offering turns as two infinitely likable and affable individuals. Phil is a shockingly easy going man who sees right through Sonia\u2019s disability more than a lot of other people, and it amounts to some sweet and tender moments. This includes a scene where he builds a make shift ramp for her, and the final scene where he fetches her coffee. I would love to see a feature film version of \u201cMy Eyes are Up Here\u201d as I would love to get to know this pair much better. I think it could be as charming and satisfying as this was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can catch \u201cMy Eyes Are Here\u201d at PAFF, LA on February 14<sup>th<\/sup>, 6.05pm &amp; February 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 1.00pm; Busting the Bias in London in March; The Vancouver International Women\u2019s Film Festival TBD; In the Palace in Bulgaria in April TBD.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Nathan Morris\u2019 \u201cMy Eyes Are Up Here\u201d is the kind of romantic comedy film that you don\u2019t see often in the mainstream. It\u2019s a short that I really wanted more of, because his short, clocking in at fourteen minutes, feels like the prologue to a very funny, and quite sweet tale of two people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[219,501,874,938],"class_list":["post-38726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-indie-film","tag-romance","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38729,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38726\/revisions\/38729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}