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At First Sight is a 1999 American film starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino, based on the essay To See and Not to See in neurologist Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars and inspired by the true life story of Shirl Jennings.
Amy Benic (Mira Sorvino) takes a break from working as an architect at a spa in Pinecrest, a small town outside New York City. Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer) is a masseur at the spa and gives Amy a massage. Amy breaks down and cries, later falling asleep as Virgil leaves the room. When she wakes up, she runs after him to compliment the massage, only to realize that Virgil is blind. Virgil asks her out, and the two eventually fall in love and begin a relationship.
Virgil lives alone, though his over-protective sister, Jennie (Kelly McGillis), who lives next door, takes care of him. During an intimate session with Amy, Virgil reveals that he went blind when he was three and that the last thing he saw was something fluffy. Amy describes the horizon to Virgil as something that you "can see but can never reach."
Get the fuck away!
My decision is made, I got no time to fake this.
I'm leavin' the world behind me, no time to take this.
My decision is made, I got no time to fake this.
I'm leavin' the world behind me, no time to take this.
[chorus]
You don't believe it, you don't see it.
Always bleeding, you're goin' down, yeah!
You got, you got, you got to get away...
When times are rough, we need to break away!
You got, you got, you got to get away...
When times are rough, we need to break away!
As I search for the answers deep in my mind,
As I break into something, something new, something real
In your face, make you taste as i come.
From this world of strife, feel the pain of life yet I still breathe...
You got no choice but to feed motherfuckin' GREED!
[chorus]
GET THE FUCK AWAY!
[chorus]