The Miracle Worker Comments

  • Jeff 2022-01-10 08:02:42

    Kant said that sympathy is an abominable quality. Teacher Sullivan’s method of education is the best proof of this sentence. Only by getting rid of sympathy can one’s soul be touched. We are used to a world where there is meaning first and then language. How do we give meaning to language? Sullivan is great, she has created a purer language—no need to express, so it's closer to the original meaning—language. In order to grasp the language, in order to gain meaning, we have to sacrifice part of...

  • Arnold 2022-01-10 08:02:42

    After watching the movie, I searched for Helen's profile. Only then did I know that she was such a great person. Bodhisattva, please forgive me for my disdain for her...

  • Kamille 2022-01-10 08:02:42

    It is hard to express the shock of my heart when watching this film. I think what I can't get in all Bergman movies that question faith, this movie gave me. The eyes have never been so...

Extended Reading

The Miracle Worker quotes

  • Annie Sullivan: All's fair in love and war.

    Captain Arthur Keller: This is not war.

    Annie Sullivan: Well, it's not love!

  • Annie Sullivan: Pity? For this tyrant? The whole house turns on her whims! Is there anything she wants she doesn't get? I'll tell you what I pity: that the sun won't rise and set for her all her life, and every day you're telling her it will! What good will your pity do when you're under the strawberries, Captain Keller?

The Miracle Worker

Director: Arthur Penn

Language: English,American Sign Language Release date: July 28, 1962