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Blindness (2008)

Directed by Fernando Meirelles

Drama

Most recently watched by noahphex

Overview

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Rated R | Length 121 minutes

Actors

Mark Ruffalo | Gael García Bernal | Julianne Moore | Danny Glover | Johnny Goltz | Niv Fichman | Maury Chaykin | Amanda Hiebert | Douglas Silva | Alice Braga | Don McKellar | Oscar Hsu | Sandra Oh | Matt Gordon | Billy Otis | Joe Cobden | Gerry Mendicino | Mpho Koaho | Martha Burns | Yûsuke Iseya | Kimura Yoshino | Mitchell Nye | Joris Jarsky | Tracy Wright | Victoria Fodor | Joe Pingue | Tom Melissis | Patrick Garrow | Robert Bidaman | Bathsheba Garnett | Susan Coyne | Nadia Litz | Sari Friedland | Lilian Blanc | Mariah Inger | Kelly Fiddick | Michael Mahonen | Linlyn Lue | Paulino Nunes | Joseph Motiki | Marvin Karon | Fabiana Gugli | Matt Fitzgerald | Daniel Zettel | Antonio Fragoso | Anthero Montenegro | Alice Poon | Toni Ellwand | Agi Gallus | Eduardo Semerjian | Otávio Martins | João Velho | Rodrigo Arijon | Fernando Macário | Adriana Guerra | Domingos Antônio | Eduardo Parisi | Ciça Meirelles | Rick Demas | Bia Borin | Katherine East | Isai Rivera Blas | Jason Bermingham | Plínio Soares | Jorge Molina | Jackie Brown | Heraldo Firmino | Fernando Patau | Rodrigo Pessin | Jim | Scott Anderson | Norman Owen | Mike G. Yohannes | Mel Ciocolato | Carol Hubner | Barnie | John Fort

Viewing Notes

Went into Blindness thinking nothing of it though I did like the trailers and I knew the cast was good: Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Julianne Moore, and Danny Glover.

At its basics its an apocalyptic, sci-fi film that turns into a sort of Lord of the Flies. People in the world start going blind for unknown reasons. Julianne Moore’s husband, Ruffalo, does and the government rounds them up into interment camps and because she’s not blind she has an advantage. From there control is basically given over to the prisoners minus giving them food to sort out themselves. From there these blind people are left on their own and as human nature is, it degrades into a dirty, evil mess.

Once it gets so messy and dark they realize there is no control and head out back into the world which is out of control because nobody can see so people are living on the streets, scrounging for food and and doing the best they can without sight.

I was not expecting what it was but Blindness was a really solid drama with some sci-fi edges to it. A very good watch.

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