Touch of the Light

Touch of the Light is a movie about Siang, a blind pianist who plays himself in the movie. The movie starts in the country where Siang is getting ready leave, he is with his little sister and his mom who accompanies him to university to settle down. He had so far grown up in a rural area where his family made their best attempt to made him feel comfortable despite of his disability, he had learned to beautifully play the piano and that was what he would study. Once the got to the city he ran into some difficulties with other students who weren't as understanding about his disability and were not willing to help him get around the school campus. Siang's roommate is a wild musician who never saw Siang differently and they clicked right away. Together with some other of their friends they form a band and their goal is to play at a festival. While all of this is happening Siang first hears the voice of Jie while she is delivering cold drinks in his school campus and says that he likes it. Jie is a delivery girl for a local tea shop and is always around campus making deliveries, she dreams to become a dancer but because of the things around her life it makes it difficult for her to make that decision. Siang eventually runs into Jie when he was attempting to go to a nearby school to help other kids who have a disability and gets confused when crossing the street and she helps him. They instantly become friends and start hanging out together. Jie becomes encouraged by Siang's story and decides to go try out her dream and go an audition to another city, with the help of her boss who lends her the money to travel. While Siang and his friends have decided to go a festival and play their music, last minute they go to an audition so Siang can play the piano and they accompany him as a band playing other instruments. Going to that audition was his dream and his friends helped him with it.  
The theme of the movie was courage as well as the passion Siang had to follow his dream and how he never gave up no matter what the obstacles were. That courage and passion is shared as well as learned from his colleagues. 
I enjoyed watching this movie and see how the main character faced all of the challenges he was faced with. It was especially emotional because the story that was being portrayed had happened to the actor in real life. 



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