A Life of Wonder

Movies are encoded with a talk tracks for those who are visually impaired. This provides a description of what is happening on screen. Essentially, you can listen to any movie this way as if it were an audiobook.                 

Yesterday, we watched the touching and said movie, Otto. The theater accidentally switched on the audio talk track for the visual impaired. For a few minutes, the audience thought the voice was a part of the movie itself. We all were intrigued, as if experiencing a new form of storytelling. Even I at first, mistook the talk track for an instructive and overly enthusiastic narrator.

Then, we realized what it was. Those who were intrigued and amused became annoyed and impatient. The problem was solved soon enough, but in the 5 minutes it lasted I experienced an entirely new form of storytelling, and observed the behaviors of a perplexed audience.

It was nothing short of magic.