Colourblind: Review

27th July 2024

Jaffy Rotunda (Nathan Hill) is a private eye and a successful one too. He never lets his personal feelings get in the way of a job and he gets it done thoroughly and in record time. Then one day he’s contacted by Alfred (Ian Rooney) who tells him about Trix Baxter (Anica Brown) a woman looking for her sister, believing that she may be suicidal.

So, Jaffy searches for Sia (Anne Gauthier) and as he follows her throughout her daily life gradually getting closer, he decides to bite the bullet and talk to her. However, this is where Jaffy’s professional ethics start to waiver as he starts to fall for Sia.

Colourblind is a modern noir drama written and directed by Nathan Hill, moving away somewhat from erotic thrillers to a more character-driven detective story. However, whilst Colourblind may be one of Hill’s more visually impressive movies, the narrative lets it down.

There seems to be something of a trend with Hill’s work and whilst he may be aware of it himself, there may be others who may not quite fully understand where he’s coming from. Taking his work at face value, he tends to play men with questionable ethics who the audience has to warm to and sympathise with so that they can follow their story. Something which if somebody were to follow his work may start to think is a reflection of the writer/director himself.

However, Hill’s movies tend to want to evoke genres of a time gone by where the protagonists were unethical scum, but the audiences loved them anyway. This unfortunately may be a problem for general audiences today though who will get through Colourblind only to find Jaffy’s self-indulgent behaviour to lack any self-awareness or empathy.

Colourblind may also be playing it straight, mimicking a ‘simpler time’ if a viewer were to be generous, but it feels like the plot is too thin to be stretched across the runtime of a movie. This unfortunately means that the more time the audience spends with Jaffy, the less they are going to like him.

Add to that various plot twists that add nothing other than padding out the plot and Colourblind may not be worth seeing.

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