How kan Eli göra allt det där?

IMDb listar några tips att han var blind, men deras Vanliga frågor sammanfattar:

... the possibilities are:

• Eli is blind and if so, he either trained himself to be able to travel, hunt, shoot, etc. like a sighted person would or

  • perhaps God is guiding his every move, as Eli says "I know I wouldn't have made it this far without help."

• Eli is partially blind

• he is fully sighted and anything to suggest otherwise is just coincidence

Denzel Washington hade detta att säga :

The audience doesn’t get to know a lot about Eli’s past. How did he get skills like martial arts?

• In [Eli's] 30 years of walking, you run into people. I make light of it, but that’s almost the way I looked at it.

  … There’s this whole issue, without giving it away, is he blind, is he not.

  … If you look at the movie, sometimes I actually bumped into stuff — and they used it. But it was actually an accident or it was God’s will. In a couple of scenes, I bumped and tripped over stuff and they kept it in there.

  I’m sure there will be people [who say], “Oh, there’s the clue. … I told you he was [blind] because he bumped into that.”

  So maybe he can [see], maybe he can’t? Maybe he can see a little bit? Maybe his eyes are clouded? I don’t know.
  
  

So martial art skills don’t necessarily come with God’s calling?

• It could be a gifting.

Så, tyvärr, Eli som stötte på saker var inte skriven, men helt enkelt Denzel var klumpig.

    

Bevis Eli är blind kom till mig när jag tittade på filmen för en andra gång. Det är en punkt när Eli går in i ett gammalt hus / shack där han letar efter mat (eller vad han kan hitta). Han är ensam. Han går in i ett separat rum i hytten där den tidigare ockupanten har hängt sig. Vi, som publiken, känner igen att det finns en person som hänger där, men Eli gör det inte. Han känner dock igen lukten, men inte exakt var lukten kommer ifrån. Detta leder mig att tro Eli är blind.