SPOILER ALERT: Solomon White is a high school lacrosse player. He receives an injury at a game that threatens getting a lacrosse scholarship to college. The injury is visual; he sees everything upside down. In the process of dealing with this injury he meets a girl who is blind. Through her and through a couple of teachers working with him on his writing, he works to figure himself out, to decide what he wants, and comes to hear about the Christian faith. When the blind girl, who he has been dating, takes him to a church for the first time, his vision rights itself after he joined in prayer at the church.
The movie doesn't play up the faith healing angle at all. I enjoyed exploring with "Sol"/"Solly" how he copes with his upside down vision. These include looking at other people through reflections such as a mirror or reflective surface of a cell phone. Shaking hands with another person was also a trick. Reading, a challenge. These are minor details to the story. The focus of the story is first dealing with others who are pushing for his life to go in a particular direction, and second, spiritual, but nothing past basic salvation--and a prayer to take a step farther with it.
Haven't figured out if the poem repeated throughout was written specifically for the movie, or if it is a quotation from somewhere else. Either is possible.
The church scene is filmed in a Lutheran Church in Georgia.
I gave this film 5 out of 5 stars based on personal interests in particular scenes, but it is a 4 star quality film otherwise. It's a nice relaxing spiritual quest/love story that suits well a low-key Sunday afternoon/evening.
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