5/10
Boring as cinema but thematically interesting
2 July 2005
As a piece of cinema, "Blind Spot" is a bold experiment that simply doesn't work; the filmmakers have one good idea - occasionally they show Traudl Junge watching her own interview and commenting on it - but for most of the film's 90 minutes they have the camera immobile and stuck on her face as she speaks, and although her face is expressive and her words are interesting, your attention can't help but wander on several occasions. But "Blind Spot" is also a remarkably truthful confession of a woman / portrait of a man. Junge says that she doesn't want to talk a lot about the "banal" incidents of Hitler's everyday life, but she keeps doing it instinctively, as you would expect from someone who lived so close to him for three years. She also expresses her guilt about not being able to understand what was really going on at the time ("unforgivable"), and at the end she admits that not even her young age is a good enough excuse for her ignorance. Note: "Blind Spot" may work best for German-speaking audiences, as small details of Junge's speech are probably lost in subtitles of any other language.
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