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Sound
Watching the programme
A song is played at one point that combines being very jolly with some really surprising lyrics about being disabled and worrying your partner will cheat on you - 'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town' by Kenny Rogers - feels like it's being played sarcastically , quite in-your-face. In one movie clip, a blind woman is regaining the ability to see, and this is clearly being portrayed by the movie as the best moment of her life. The score of that movie is so ridiculous that it's making me laugh because it's so not subtle.
Interoception
Feeling uneasy - an emotional response but also one centred in the body. Several reasons: Feel uneasy watching a full TV episode at work. A discussion about the added vulnerability of blind female characters who are stalked/assaulted is hard to watch. A minor reason is that the episode is very clearly quite old, pre-internet - it adds to the sense of dislocation and unease.
Sense of unease did last longer than the clip which caused the unease, but not the length of the whole TV show.
Reaction showing up physically as tension in the body, can feel my face going into alert-neutral expression rather than the relaxed expression I've had. I'm needing to take breaks and take deep breaths.
Not enjoyable. Not really intense - maybe a 3 out of 10 - but a clear desire to not watch, to turn away.
Touch
They show the clip from Four Weddings and A Funeral where the deaf brother, using sign language, tells Hugh Grant (Charlie) that Charlie shouldn't go forward with the wedding (this is described as good representation), and then the bride at the altar punches the groom when he says he's in love with someone else. Crucially, the punch is not the focal point of the clip.
Momentary - a short moment within a short clip.
<div class="evocative-info-item"> I really felt that punch (good mix of touch and sound), and I also really empathised with her. Good for her! </div>
Visual
Watching the programme
Certain section of the programme
<div class="evocative-info-item"> One clip where a blind woman is learning to see again uses a filter for a visual effect, and it makes the image all wavy - it makes me laugh because it's so ridiculous, and because that's so clearly not how sight works!! It's clearly meant to be really touching and it's so daft. </div>
Pain
Watching the programme. There's not much discussion of the pain aspect of these disabilities - we're looking at representation, not experience.
<div class="evocative-info-item"> Feeling sympathetic - some of these injuries and disabilities look horribly painful. </div>