{"id":6824,"date":"2015-10-28T23:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T03:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=6824"},"modified":"2015-10-28T23:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T03:56:05","slug":"eu-nao-quero-voltar-sozinho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2015\/10\/28\/eu-nao-quero-voltar-sozinho\/","title":{"rendered":"Eu N\u00e3o Quero Voltar Sozinho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I stumbled upon a little foreign short film called\u00a0&#8220;Eu N\u00e3o Quero Voltar Sozinho,&#8221; which is Portuguese for &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Want To Go Back Alone.&#8221; It is a coming-of-age story about a young blind man named Leonardo, and is a beautifully done piece about young love. Rather than explain the entire premise and ruin the ending, I&#8217;m putting the film here for our readers&#8217; enjoyment:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KiJbu7h2iEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The story of Leonardo and Gabriel is a story of love and identity that I couldn&#8217;t help being captivated by from the moment I saw it. What I love about this film is that, though it has it&#8217;s problems, it takes an important step towards greater representation of identities in films. It&#8217;s the first story I&#8217;ve seen about a young gay man discovering his sexuality who&#8217;s lived experience is also influenced by his ability status. Disability is very rarely portrayed in popular culture unless it is a defining characteristic, and to have a blind main character in a film where the focus is not his blindness is really cool. It&#8217;s important to point out, however, that this film didn&#8217;t go so far as to include a blind actor as the main character, Leonardo, which is a shortfall in representation that is often seen in films today.<\/p>\n<p>If you saw this film and craved more of the story of Leonardo and Gabriel, you are not alone. The film was so popular following it&#8217;s release that a full length film based on the original story was created by the director, Daniel Ribeiro.\u00a0&#8220;Eu N\u00e3o Quero Voltar Sozinho&#8221; (The Way He Looks) was released in 2014 and has been nominated for a plethora of independent and LGBT awards, 13 of which it has won. While I cannot in good conscience link video sharing sites for you to watch the film on, I can leave the trailer here for you and inform you that it is in fact available on many sites and suggest that you watch it however you see fit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/68BBdJiTPuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I stumbled upon a little foreign short film called\u00a0&#8220;Eu N\u00e3o Quero Voltar Sozinho,&#8221; which is Portuguese for &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Want To Go Back Alone.&#8221; It is a coming-of-age story about a young blind man named Leonardo, and is a beautifully done piece about young love. Rather than explain the entire premise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,225,804,805,803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6826,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}