Steven St. Croix is credited with the original idea for "Color Blind", a wonderful Adam & Eve feature from 15 years ago dealing with racial prejudice. He was wise to collaborate with filmmaker Nick Orleans, who brings style and eroticism to subject matter that proves ideal for his fetish approach.
Orleans, to a fault, incorporates sexy and fancy pantyhose, lingerie and other undergarments into virtually all his work, and this explicitly tactile content is a perfect match to a story of a man dealing with sudden blindness. St. Croix portrays a horrid character who is mean to his colleagues and women, never making any bones or apologies about his oft-expressed racist comments.
When a car crash (he's busy yapping on his cell phone when he should be minding the road) robs him of his sight, St. Croix becomes a belligerent, self-pitying wreck. His lovely wife (Jasmine Klein, also associate producer on the film) understandably divorces him, with Steven keeping their opulent mansion under the proviso that he seek professional help.
SPOILER:
Second half of the lengthy (for A & E back in 2002) movie deals with a pair of therapists who teach him braille, massage him, and later sexually service him, and St. Croix's revelation that unlike their voices they turn out to be ethnic, the people he blindly (pun intended) hates so much.
In a mainstream film such subject matter as the wife cheating behind the blind man's back, as well as the over racism depicted here would be incredibly corny, though there are two British pictures of this genre I greatly admire: William Sylvester in "Blind Corner"/aka "Man in the Dark" and Nicol Williamson in the rarely-seen Nabokov adaptation "Laughter in the Dark". But in a XXX version this material plays very well and proves engrossing thanks to St. Croix's dynamic performance as a man we love to hate due to his hateful attitudes.
Casting Mia Smiles and Dee as the two therapists is a dream come true for me, a Number One Fan of these underrated performers. Supporting femmes are also wonderful, including the team of Gina Ryder and inimitable Nikita Denise who service Steven's oppressed employee Ian Daniels with a threesome at work; Venus in a flashback anecdote providing quality Bride fetish wearing sexy white lingerie and a bridal veil to service her fiancée big-dicked Lee Stone; and Flick Shagwell, taking time out from her day job as makeup artist to join fellow therapists Dee & Mia for a quality lesbian threesome.
Visual quality is excellent, and Nick keeps the sex scenes (eight in all) concise so that the ongoing story doesn't get lost or forgotten, as is the case in so many 21st Century bloated porn features including his own later work.
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