Proof is a movie
from 1991, written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and produced by Linda
House. Martin McGrath (who also worked on Spellbinder) did the
cinematography. The movie won many awards, in-cluding one at the Cannes Film
Festival.
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Martin is blind since his birth. As a child, he lived with his mother. He always believed she hated him for being blind. Every day, she described
the garden for him, but he thought she lied about what she saw, to punish
him. When she told him she was going to die, he believed it was a hoax
and that she only wanted to get rid of him.
As an adult, Martin lives in his own house, with Celia, his housekeeper. Celia
loves him, but he won't trust her. This frustrates her, so she plays tricks
on him (like moving objects, letting the dog disappear when he is in the park,
etc.). He doesn't like the situation and wants her to quit the job, so he often humiliates
her.
Martin doesn't trust anyone. He makes photographs of almost every-thing around
him, and he lets other people describe them for him. In that way, he has proof of
the things that he can't see. His camera is like eyes for him.
One day, he goes to a restaurant and meets Andy, a waiter. He be-friends Andy,
and begins to trust him. When Martin asks him to describe a picture of Celia
luring the dog, he doesn't know what to do, and he lies about what's on the
picture. Celia doesn't accept that Martin likes Andy more than
her, so she makes a plan to discredit Andy. She begins a relation with Andy, and
she lets Martin find out about the missing dog.
But the plan doesn't work out as expected: Martin fires Celia, and almost
breaks up his friendship with Andy. Only when Andy makes clear that there is
something between full trust and not trusting at all, Martin gives him another
chance. He wants him to describe one last picture: a picture of the garden that
his mother described to him. This shows him the painful conclusion that she
hadn't been lying at all.
| Hugo Weaving |
as Martin |
| Geneviève Picot |
as Celia |
| Russell Crowe |
as Andy |
| Heather Mitchell |
as Martin's mother |
| Jeffrey Walker |
as young Martin |
| Daniel Pollock |
as the punk |
| Frankie J. Holden |
as Brian |
| Frank Gallacher |
as the vet |
| Saskia Post |
as the waitress |
| Belinda Davey |
as the doctor |
| Cliff Ellen |
as the cemetary caretaker |
| Tania Uren |
as a customer |
| Robert James O'Neill |
as a hoon |
| Anthony Rawling |
as a hoon |
| Darko Tuscan |
as a hoon |
| Adele Danielle |
as a hoon |
| Roy Edmunds |
as a policeman |
| Lisa Chambers |
as a nurse |
| Suzanne Chapman |
as the chemist girl |
| Angela Campbell |
as the high heeled woman |
| Osvaldo Maione |
as a waiter |
| Carole Patullo |
as the kiosk girl |
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