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Directed By
Fernando Meirelles
Written By:
Don McKellar, José Saramago
Cast:
Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, Danny Glover, Scott Anderson, Jackie Brown, Martha Burns, Joe Cobden, Joris Jarsky, Mpho Koaho, Nadia Litz, Tom Melissis, Paulino Nunes, Sandra Oh, Billy Otis, Joe Pingue, Gael Garcia Bernal, Isai Rivera Blas, Mitchell Nye, Isai Rivera Blas, Susan Coyne, Katherine East, Amanda Hiebert, Michael Mahonen, Francisco Meirelles, Jorge Molina, Anthero Montenegro, Eduardo Semerjian, Mike G. Yohannes, Agi Gallus, Katia Kieling, Linlyn Lue
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Blindness (2008)
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Movie Review by Tim 
May 31st, 2009
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Maybe being blind would have made this film better
Favorite Movie Quote: "That's the a**hole who's responsible for all this, if I had my f*ckin' eyes I'd kill him."
Ughhhhhhhh
Blindness is another "what would happen if" film which fails to present a theory entertaining enough to create a feature length film about the topic. Films like 28 Days Later or The Happening brings a suspenseful edge to the genre but Blindness just really proved that even creative concepts can fail when not applied to film correctly.
Yes it is an interested concept that a virus may take the world by storm and cause everyday healthy people to become blind. However this film crosses the unrealistic line one too many times and becomes a drama using sci-fi movie genre allotments which create a catastrophe.
First of all.... if this really did happen....I seriously doubt that everyone would be locked away in an institute with no guards or medical staff. They would at least have had doctors or nurses in full body suits and mask doing test after test trying to figure out a cure.
Also I doubt that the US government would just shoot innocent Americans because they were blind and walked to close to a fence. What year was this set in again?? It reminded me of Escape From LA with Kurt Russell..... Was this the same government that you and I know of or was this 300 years into the future....the government that just kills people in front of hundreds for no reason and gets away with it.
Also...when the prisoners were quarantined...were they not searched?? One was able to get a 6 shot revolver into the ward which miraculously fired 10 bullets???
Then Julianne Moore is going to sit by and let herself and every other women in the ward get raped just to eat instead of killing the enemy with her scissors or any number of ways she could have done it being that she could see and he couldn't?
I had to strain to finish this one...
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