A Patch of Blue

[@melaniemills4505]

RIP Sydney Poitier! 😞

[@onelionforlambs2019]

To be completely honest, this my VERY favorite film. I hope they never remake it ...there could never be another Sydney Poitier or Elizabeth Hartman. Beyond words!!!

[@dyanshane]

Mine too.

[@fathertime2020]

Me too

[@songspiritUSA]

One of my favorite films growing up. It gave me hope.

[@doracamarena1532]

I was born in " 64", Patch has always been one of my favorites. One to watch.

[@secretsquirrel5566]

It's so sad that Elizabeth Hartman killed herself. I always loved this movie and you're right about it fading from the American memory.

[@mgmg3561]

1 of the best movies I saw in my life, surrounded by a fantastic J. Goldsmith song + 4 magical performances + a sensible and intelligent director + a crew of correct persons ... A classic. APPLAUSE .......

[@barbaraobach]

Really one of the quietly, greatest movies, the director Guy Green,amazing,the actors, everyone great, I remember my former boss once telling me, that the picture was shown in an Art House in of all places, Miami, when it first came out and their was a long line for it

[@kirkfeather1]

There have been few films that have produced in me the level and power of emotions that I have watching "A Patch of Blue" (Goldsmith's score is exquisitely appropriate). During certain scenes it gives rise in me a sharp, startling, entirely unanticipated welling up of salt tears the likes of which I've rarely experienced. The heart of the film is the notion that we MUST love one another as fellow human beings or nothing in our fraught, brief lives will ever make sense.

[@Mike-yg8ig]

As Gordon tosses the music box as he watches the bus leave, it's clear to us that he will be bringing it to her soon. I realized after watching this great film several times that that is a relationship with no end.

[@sonnyroy497]

A fantastic movie, truly beautiful.

[@paulaford3303]

One of my very favorite movies of all time. Thank you for posting.

[@Gexxon]

This is in fact my FAVORITE movie of all time. It used to be "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", until I saw this one. The acting, the concept, the dialogues are all perfect. It is an awesome movie that I will watch over and over and never get tired of it. Brilliant move indeed. What a rollercoaster ride of emotions.

[@Jaime-u5m]

Classic! I've nudged brothers to watch patch of Blue for years. No movie paints a greater picture of us (Black men), Sidney was Regal, a knight in shining Armour. Sidney helped elevate the young lady instead of behaving like the predator that we are normally pictured as. He didn't help himself instead he was selfless. Plus, the first ever kiss between a Black man and an Anglo woman on screen; adds to the allure of this classic. The kiss was removed from southern audiences view. CLASSIC!

[@tjj5337]

My favorite film

[@deeann424]

This is a great movie. I put it up there with To Kill A Monkingbird. The acting is superb. You don't feel like it is a movie. The cast snd acting is so good you feel like you are there with them. This movie needs to come to the fromt for People be made aware of it snd watch it. I could watch it over and over. Beautiful movie to see. Maybe in the 60s it was to much for folks but now our culture has changed. Everyone should watch this movie.

[@JamesMena-ym9vf]

Over the years I've referred this movie to over 500 brothers (black men) because no other film depicts us as having, Regal like qualities, having empathy, respect for women. Sidney was selfless and extremely considerate, Angelic. Above qualities could help change the trajectory of our bloodlines, fewer brothers would run away from the sites of their responsibilities; results would be, better rounded kids and stronger families. In the process help our world become a better place.

[@vbartrum9172]

Why can't someone please put the full movie for people to see free - a patch of blue

[@eduardoporben3965]

Awesome movie, awesome actors, 👍👍👍R.I.P. Elizabeth Hartmann

[@kymelieleonard6490]

Very well put essay on this film, saw it before, he really does teach her to be independent for herself being visually impaired

[@Jaime-u5m]

This movie cost her dearly, it's said that ONCE YOU GO BLACK YOU NEVER GO BACK. That kiss haunted the wonderful lady, it literally killed her career. RIP Elizabeth,

[@paulbrewer2374]

Love this film. Thank you for your excellent analysis of it.

[@angelacarleton9575]

That's what I picked up from this movie about "Tolerance and Respect" for each other. Beautifully filmed and the music fits perfect throughout the entire story.

[@jayns1698]

Thank you. That was lovely.

[@feferosette]

Wonderful film.

[@stevenphelps7929]

The music compose and written was superb. I loved how the music and movie was very well done. I wished that there was a part two of the movie, as well. The actress and actors played their role beautifully and can't be duplicated in this life time. I thank the producer and writer(s) for taking a brave stand on bringing light on racism, that blacks and whites can co-exist. A truly unique master piece filmed.

[@sergiosanchez7201]

I need this wonderfull movie!!! :'(

[@jeankeats3200]

if everyone thinks it's so awesome why can't you all BE like this movie. No, that takes brains and a heart. Such a sick society. I can't even watch this movie without crying my head off.

[@Jaime-u5m]

I first watched this movie as a ten-year-old in 1970 and it made a lifelong impression on me. The 70's were really a continuation of Woodstock, South Central Los Angeles was alive and well; with teen pregnancies thriving. While my 15/16-year-old friends were becoming dads, I was teaming with my girlfriend to leave Manual Arts HS; go to college and later perhaps start a family. She would attend college and law school in Arkansas, I in the LA area but we always stayed friends. Decades later she shared with me how I saved her from the motherhood experienced by nearly all our friends. let's thank Gordon Ralph, I told her. "Who"? Gordon even helped me become an Ivy league Dad. RIP you two.

[@anyviolet]

very nice essay. Loved this movie but hadn't known a lot of the background. Thank you for posting.

[@TytonidaeBingo]

Great work! Thank you!

[@mychaloh]

Hey man, beautiful breakdown of explaining what this movies is all about !!! And I thank you for doing it.Biff Hartman ans Sidney Poitier are two of the best !!! RIP BIFF.

[@SheenaRea]

Thanks very much for this video. Nice work!

[@joangoldspink8707]

I saw that movie in 1966, It had a lot to do with my becoming aware of race issues, child abuse, and issues with disabilites.

[@Jaime-u5m]

1970 for me, I was 10 it's like yesterday, oh how time goes,,,.

[@goodjohnjr]

Hello The Video Essayist, this is the best video about the movie A Patch Of Blue that I have seen on KZbin so far, well done; and thank you for uploading this video. -John Jr

[@sakkshi12]

beautiful movie ...loved it

[@beatrizaristizabal8387]

Today January 7, 2022 I learnt that Sydney Poitier Just died. Sad. For me one of the best Hollywood actors. I watch this movie lots of times. Sad that his costar Elizabeth Hartman committed suicide in 1.987 throwing herself from a 5th floor. I loved both of them in this film as much as Shelley winters as the bad mama of Selina (Elizabeth Hartman). They will be in our hearts forever. RIP.

[@Jaime-u5m]

Elizabeth performed her heart out, she gave her all!! thank you queen,

[@bernicerogers2383]

The book is great. Selina hates black because it's all she sees since she became blind as a young child. That's why she turns on Gordon. She has no idea he is black and is instinctively racist because of the times in which she lives. Gordon has arranged a lady to help her so she has the hope of bettering her awful life. In the book they have a relationship, it's not that he tries to help or teach her.

[@NabilahSafira]

Sorry English is not my native language. By "turns on Gordon", did you mean she rejected Gordon in the book?

[@SUZUMAYBACHI]

I'm black I'm pretty sure it all true, nowadays they don't always including everything from a book to a movie, just like adding to a cereal

[@janicesmith2475]

I love “A Patch of Blue”! I’ve seen it on TV several times over the years and have read the book many times. In the book the didn’t know he was black until the very end, when a mob chased him away because they thought he was attacking her. A couple of months ago I watched a video on YT where two women were discussing the movie. They really aggravated me, and I told them so. They were obviously indoctrinated with the latest lefty lib-tard ideaology and basically tore the movie apart. They mocked the fact that the actress playing Selena was “sighted”, and said she did a horrible job of acting blind. Then they rolled their eyes at Sydney Portier playing the role of “the stereotypical ‘magical negro’”. They also alluded to the fact that Shelley Winters got an Oscar for her role in this and Sydney didn’t because of “racism.” And they spewed it all with this haughty self-righteous and mocking tone, like they were so above it all. GOD, I wish I could remember the name of the channel so people know to avoid it, although the video was over a decade old so maybe they’ve folded (rightfully so) by now. Thank you for this insightful video.

[@IRex-wm9pd]

Not sure I agree that Selina changes her disposition toward black people because he was "tolerant" to her. I think Selina has never been intolerant. She just didnt have the word for it because she didnt know intolerance was an option. her blindness shields her from developing it. we already know that she has positive feelings about black people because her only friend Pearl was black and she liked her and wishes she hadnt been sent away by her mother. So for me Gordon is the one that gets educated in the end. Not Selina.

[@Jaime-u5m]

Yea, you're discussing the movie version; turns out the Book was different.

[@OutcastLive-vi3pi]

I wish there was a Patch of blue 2, I’d love to know how things turned out ❤

[@ayngemac]

Love this movie so much! It's a shame it's so obscure. I read that the book ends very differently though: Selena discovers Gordon is black at the end and turns on him, and the mob attacks him.

[@livingabstraction2206]

ayngemac Yeah glad I never finished the book.

[@CJLOVE23]

Jesus! Glad I never read the book then 🙁 I was already put off when I heard they both get attacked in the park too

[@Jaime-u5m]

Really? thank goodness I stayed away from the book. The movie changed my outlook on life because he was a hero to me; and I copied much of his civility. Never had I seen a Black man like me so in control of himself, and I wanted some of that confidence.

[@dyanshane]

For me growing up in Detroit, this was a movie about a black man that helped an abused handicapped women out of a horrible situation. They fell in love. One of the most beautiful movie's ever made. This was not such a racial thing like you say! It is younger generations that only care about comic book garbage. Not real human stories. By the way, we didn't call blacks negro's, we called them "colored" in the 60's, there choice. Then black in the 70's. There choice.

[@whiskyandpoetry]

Does anyone else remember in the original black and white version, there was an early scene in the park, where the film suddenly turns blue? I can't find any version of the film with this intact, nor can I find any evidence of this ever even existing, yet I remember it vividly. And when you watch the scene in question, the film stock actually looks different from the rest of the movie. Someone please tell me they remember this, cos I think I'm going crazy!

[@Jaime-u5m]

It was the sky, remember Selina's last seeing memories, how she remembered the skies being blue?

[@awillis244]

Sidney was not an African American

[@janicesmith2475]

No one said he was