Movie: Blindness (2008)
“A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant “white blindness”. Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created “society of the blind” quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is however one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble. Written by Festival de Cannes’ Editor”
- Director: Fernando Meirelles
- Release Date: 3 October 2008 (USA)
- Run Time: 121 min
- Country: Canada , Brazil , Japan
- Genre: Drama , Mystery , Romance , Thriller
- MPAA: Rated R for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity.
Tagline: Lust is blind.
Trivia: The music video of the song “Intocable” (”Untouchable”), released by Mexican singer/composer ‘Aleks Syntec’ in 2007, is also based on the novel ‘Blindness’ by José Saramago.
Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When the children steal the supermarket trolley, and the camera is above the street, you can see clearly that the children push the trolley around a car and the sidewalk - yet they are supposed to be blind.