The Blind Monkey

Don't the producers of these documentaries watch their own product? Can't they hear that the background music is drowning out the narrator. The programme was really spoilt for me by the unnecessarily loud music. It was foreground music, rather than the gentle background it should have been.

Yes, the loud background music made it hard to hear the narration. If only it had been harder. There was so little inflection in the narrator's voice that for a long time I wasn't sure if he was a computer-generated voice, but eventually I concluded he was merely extremely bored. No doubt by the end of this gig he'd planned out what he was going to have for dinner down to the last detail.

The script was even worse. This is a movie supposedly about "The Blind Monkey" but although they named the baby's mother, they never name the baby but simply call her "the blind baby" or "Gia's blind daughter" as if they're afraid we're going to forget between one sentence and the next, and are determined to remind us as many times as possible in an hour. Over and over they stress how great a burden she is and how extraordinary her mother is for continuing to care for such a low-status baby with deformed eyes. It's reasonable to talk about some of the things the baby can't do, but it would have been far more interesting to *also* talk a lot more about the things she has learned how to do, and the ways she's adapted to dealing with the environment and the troop she lives with.

I genuinely think I'd have learned more if I'd watched with the sound off and just focused more on the visuals.

Music is so loud while the narrator can barely be heard.

How does this happen?

More words to fill up the word quota. Etc etc and so on.

Words words words. How long does this need to be. Oh I see 150 words.

If the director of this ever reads this I hope he has a word with his audio mixer person.

There enough words?