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The Miracle Worker
1962 · Film · 106 min
Directed by Arthur Penn
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
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It wasn't until he was at the New York Institute for the Blind that a teacher realized what was happening and taught him manual sign language, where word symbols are formed by the questioner's fingers pressed against the palm of the blind person's hand.
You can see an example of this in the movie about Helen Keller called The Miracle Worker. This is my favorite scene -- where Helen finally understands. It always makes me cry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlKuJBiw1ac
Take Helen Keller for example.
We remember Helen Keller because by all rights she should have been basically an institutionalized animal and not had a career of any kind whatsoever. What exactly she did is of less significance than that she did anything at all with her life.
This scene from "The Miracle Worker," a movie about her relationship to the teacher who taught her sign language and basic manners against very long odds, never fails to bring me to tears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUV65sV8nu0