History Main / ImpairmentShot

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Happens when the first VictimOfTheWeek is poisoned in "The Killings of Copenhagen".

* ''Film/TheLostWorld1998'': After Summerlee is shot with drugged dart, shots from his POV are distorted with psychadelic colours.

This is a camera trick or editing trick used to indicate that the character whose POV we are seeing is drugged, poisoned, sick, injured, or otherwise incapacitated and is about to faint... or die. Frequently this shot precedes a FadeToBlack that indicates the character has lost consciousness or an IrisOut as "everything goes black." Certain sound effects may enhance the effect: we hear the impaired character's heavy, labored breathing, for example, or his pounding heartbeat. Sounds may echo as the character gets closer to unconsciousness. Wavering horns, woodwinds, and/or strings can further simulate disorientation or drowsiness.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' have several shorts in which this occurs; almost always resulting from them getting drunk.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': In a rather disturbing variation, the episode "Hate Floats" turns into first-person SplitScreen when Rusty's [[EyeScream right eye gets knocked out of its socket]].

* ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'': In Season 7, Franchise/{{Sonic}} and the gang [[ToadLicking lick]] the VideoGame/{{BattleToads}} for a clue towards The Creator. VideoGame/EarthwormJim claims he doesn't feel any drug effects while speaking to Eggman, who appears swirling from Jim's perspective.

* Music/{{Eminem}}: In the music video for "Just Lose It", when Eminem tries to hit on Dr Dre at a bar (thinking him to be a woman), Eminem's point of view is shown as blurry, showing disorientation from drunkenness and having just been slugged in the stomach.

* Music/{{Eminem}}: In the music video for "Just Lose It", when Eminem tries to hit on Dr Dre at a bar (thinking him to be a woman), Eminem's point of view is shown as blurry, showing disorientation from drunkenness and just having been slugged in the stomach.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'', the bite from one of the spider species causes Caleb to become dizzy, which is represented by the viewpoint swaying down- and upwards, and the screen to become blurry.

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* ''Film/TheGiant2016'': Rikard's right eye is covered with flesh due to his deformities, and his left eye has bad eyesight. In shots from his perspective, the image is round and blurry.
* In ''Film/Daylight2013'', a flickering image and static noises are used to show Ray's feelings of SensoryOverload.

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* A rather chillingly realistic one from ''Series/{{Covert Affairs}}'': Special Forces captain August Anderson sees a supposed team member, actually a mole, throw a pack of explosives under the team's humvee. Auggie races toward the humvee, frantically yelling a warning, but is too late; the bomb explodes, killing the rest of the team and throwing Auggie to the ground. After a brief shot of an obviously still-conscious Auggie, the camera cuts to black, though ambient sound keeps going, indicating Auggie hasn't passed out; -- the explosion blinded him.

** In the TV episode "Sight for Sore Eyes", there's one when Sniffles' vision is impaired after his and Toothy's RC paper airplane (made out of razor-thin metal) cuts the bottom of his glasses off, another when the plane chops off the fronts of Nutty's eyes and we see his POV as his eyes start to bleed, and a third when it changes to Russell's POV and his vision is obscured by his missing contact lens on his left and his eyepatch on his right. When he mistakes one of the fronts of Nutty's eyes for his lens and puts it in, his left eye's vision goes completely red.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', we get one from Mr. Incredible's POV: Mirage walks in on him as his vision and consciousness are taken out by the squishy black things that hit him upon setting off Syndrome's intruder alert.

* Seen in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' once Naked Snake (Big Boss) is shot in the eye; from then on, if you enter first-person view that side of the screen is blacked out.

* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed 3'' has a cheat code to make the screen look like you're driving under the influence. And a cymbal crash plays and the VariableMix music cuts down to the bass when you crash.

** In "Pretty Poison", Batman sees Poison Ivy in blurred multiples after she poisons him.

** Happens near the beginning--after getting the Electrobolt plasmid, you black out, fall over a railing and fade in and out of consciousness in time to see first a pair of Splicers and then a Little Sister and her companion about to try to harvest you.

This is a camera trick used to indicate that the character whose POV we are seeing is drugged, poisoned, sick, injured, or otherwise incapacitated and is about to faint... or die. Frequently this shot precedes a FadeToBlack that indicates the character has lost consciousness or an IrisOut as "everything goes black." Certain sound effects may enhance the effect: we hear the impaired character's heavy, labored breathing, for example, or his pounding heartbeat. Sounds may echo as the character gets closer to unconsciousness. Wavering horns, woodwinds, and/or strings can further simulate disorientation or drowsiness.

* The [[EyeCam blink-blink eye shaped shot]] that finally goes black as the character slides out of the waking world. Which is then reversed later when the POV character comes to again.

* In the ''Comicbook/RobinSeries'' during ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' when Tim gets some scrapes and bites from rats infected things get a brighter and distorted for him for a while when he's waiting for his meds to kick in.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', one scene has Thessaly woken up by Dream late at night. Without her glasses on, he initially appears as a vague black blur.
* ''Recap/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald'' has a very blurry panel showing characters' reactions after viewing a very buggy color television broadcast.

* ''Advertising/ViveSinDrogas'': In the one-minute "sunny park" ad, the boy briefly finds himself looking at more than one singing flower due to his vision getting blurred before he dies of a drug overdose.

* Cordelia gets the blurry version on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' when she is cursed with blindness (the curse takes some time to ramp up).