"Blindness" is a movie whose sense of crisis feels right on time, even if the happy ending feels like a gratuitous emotional bailout. Meirelles ensures that the obviousness of the symbolism (in the global village the blind need guidance!) doesn't negate the story's power, nor the power of Moore's performance.
Blindness (2008 film) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness_(2008_film)Oct 03, 2008 · Directed by Fernando Meirelles. With Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yûsuke Iseya. A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.
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- Fernando Meirelles
- R
- 3 min
A sudden sickness hits a country causing blindness. The government immediately quarantines those effected. The movie starts off interesting but then runs into some real problems. First, there are only a few people affected and the government creates an immediate quarantine.
"Blindness" is a movie whose sense of crisis feels right on time, even if the happy ending feels like a gratuitous emotional bailout. Meirelles ensures that the obviousness of the symbolism (in the global village the blind need guidance!) doesn't negate the story's power, nor the power of Moore's performance.
- $25 million
- Niv Fichman, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Sonoko Sakai
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Blindness is a relatively straightforward movie and is not particularly good or bad. It is ironic how a film about how ugly humans can become when there are no laws or institutions (why do you ...
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- drama, mystery and thriller
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Aug 09, 1998 · Directed by Anna Chi. With Lisa Lu, Vivian Wu, Joe Lando, Chin Han. A blind Asian-American woman lives with her son and daughter-in-law. The two women barely tolerate one another and the son, a doctor simply turns himself off to avoid any confrontation with either.
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- Lisa Lu, Vivian Wu, Joe Lando, Chin Han
- Anna Chi
Blindness is a relatively straightforward movie and is not particularly good or bad. It is ironic how a film about how ugly humans can become when there are no laws or institutions (why do you ...
- (161)
- Fernando Meirelles
- R
- Miramax
6 Disaster Movies: Blindness, Final Encounter, Battle: New York 2, The Black Hole, Countdown Armageddon, 2012: Doomsday Julianne Moore, Dean Cain, Danny Glover, Judd Nelson, Mark Ruffalo 2.9 out of 5 stars 10
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"Blindness" is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen. It is an allegory about a group of people who survive under great stress, but frankly I would rather have seen them perish than sit through the final three-quarters of the film. Not only is it despairing and sickening, it's ugly. Denatured, sometimes overexposed, sometimes too shadowy to see, it is an ...
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