Blindness

Film: Blindness
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga
Premieres: Cannes Film Fest [14 May 08], 23 Oct 08 [SG]

It begins in a flash, as one man is instantaneously struck blind while driving home from work, his whole world suddenly turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he encounters – his wife, his doctor, even the seemingly good Samaritan who gives him a lift home – will in due course suffer the same unsettling fate. As the contagion spreads, and panic and paranoia set in across the city, newly blind victims of the “White Sickness” are rounded up and quarantined within a crumbling, abandoned mental asylum, where all semblance of ordinary life begins to break down.
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If you have had enough of armageddon-notion films like the horrendously disappointing I Am Legend and The Happening, try watching just this one more. Blindness opened the Cannes Film Festival to mixed responses and has since been criticized by blind activists as offensive for portraying blind people as monsters. But i do have faith in Fernando Meirelles after experiencing his amazing City of God, and i believe this film would probably resemble Frank Darabont's The Mist, which proves to be more thought-provoking than horrifying. The end of days can't always be that meaningless.

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