{"id":4164,"date":"2023-11-02T22:31:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/all-the-light-we-cannot-see-review-the-blind-girl-and-the-nazi\/02\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T22:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:31:53","slug":"all-the-light-we-cannot-see-review-the-blind-girl-and-the-nazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/all-the-light-we-cannot-see-review-the-blind-girl-and-the-nazi\/02\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018All the Light We Cannot See\u2019 Review: The Blind Girl and the Nazi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marie-Laure and Werner, the destined soul mates who will eventually meet in the Netflix mini-series \u201cAll the Light We Cannot See,\u201d<\/a> are on opposite sides of a cataclysmic divide. She is a French teenager delivering coded radio messages to the Allied bombing command in World War II; he is a young Nazi radio technician assigned to track her down in her Saint-Malo garret, as the bombs rain and American troops close in.<\/p>\n

But in keeping with the sweepingly romantic, idealistic bent of the series and of the best-selling Anthony Doerr novel<\/a> on which it is based, Marie-Laure and Werner have much in common. Both have met challenges \u2014 she is blind, he spent his childhood in an orphanage \u2014 and emerged tough and resourceful; Werner is a radio prodigy and Marie-Laure\u2019s senses of touch, smell and hearing are extraordinary. And they share a mentor, an anonymous broadcaster named the Professor whose lessons, including, \u201cthe most important light in the world is the light you cannot see,\u201d have helped to shape their characters.<\/p>\n

These two paragons provide the framework for a deluxe iteration of the wartime melodrama and triumph-of-the-spirit tale, as imagined by Doerr<\/a> and adapted for television by the screenwriter Steven Knight (\u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d) and director Shawn Levy (\u201cNight at the Museum\u201d). Marie-Laure and Werner are little people whose problems, when romanticized and cliffhanger-ized, amount to more than a hill of beans.<\/p>\n

Their story has a foreground of suspense, terror and bloody violence but is elastic enough to include the search for a fabled gem said to confer a curse on the loved ones of anyone who touches it. Marie-Laure is supplied with not one but two lovable father figures: her actual father, who builds elaborate models of their neighborhoods so that she can memorize the streets, and his uncle, a hero of the World War I trenches whose ugly memories have kept him from leaving his house for 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n