Feeling Through (2020)

Feeling Through Review

Feeling Through is a 2020 live-action short film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. It’s a touching flick.

A young black guy meets a blind-deaf man on the streets of NYC and he helps him find his way home. This movie is predictably inspirational in its story with the protagonist learning how to become a better, more empathetic person, but the film elevates its clichéd storyline through the sheer greatness of the execution.

It is well shot and also very well directed by a director who himself lived through this meet-up. They cast an actual deaf-blind man in the role of Artie and Robert Tarango is excellent in this important role. Their conversations were very sweet and heartwarming while the film’s heart is in the right place with the ending being particularly affecting. It’s by far the best Oscar-nominated live-action short this year.

Feeling Through is predictable, but undeniably heartwarming in its inspirational storyline. It’s very well shot and directed too.

My Rating – 4.2