Cassidy Moorhouse Proof

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Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1991 film ‘Proof’ is an emotive story about Martin, a paranoid blind man, made so because he was convinced that his mother, when he was just a child, lied to him about the sights she described to him. Now Martin as an adult is living a solitary life and has developed an ill temperament with the people around him, as the word trust is still haunting him. Martin is also a photographer, he takes photographs of the many different things he encounters on a day to day basis, has them developed, and then asks his close friends to describe the images to him. Martin has developed an idea that if he labels the photographs in braille as they are described to him no one in the future can lie to him about an image. Martin’s housekeeper Celia also is shown as a photographer, however in an obsessive way, highlighting her connection and feelings toward Martin. This obsession however doesn’t carry through to a successful ending in a relationship unfortunately for Celia. In addition to this we are taken through the tormenting and humiliation that Celia and Martin put each other through from day to day, therefore building the significance of
We are engaged in a number of flashbacks of Martins childhood to try and connect with us as an audience and highlight how Martin’s perspective of his life, the outside world beyond the darkness and the meaning of the truth has been shaped. The repetition of this memory is to reinforce the significance of the way Martins perspectives have been shaped. Showing that he struggled to believe what he was hearing throughout his childhood and that this may have somewhat travelled with him into his adulthood, altering his views. Martin has a close relationship with Celia and this is shown symbolically through the time they spend together and how well they know each