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Blindness

  • 12-05-2008 9:15am
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    A doctor's wife becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden blindness...

    IMDB
    Trailer

    Another pandemic/disease/outbreak movie, this time rendering everyone but one person blind. Interesting concept. Plus if it is shot the way that is depicted in the trailer, it would make for good effects.


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  • #2
    genkav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭genkav


    the film didn't fare to well with the cannes panel. and im not one for the critics, so i hope the public is a lot kinder. the trailer is pretty cool, and i'm fan of the book so it really can't be all too bad. julian moore picks great roles, and this is a first for me to see mark ruffalo in a serious role.

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  • #3
    sweetie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭sweetie


    genkav wrote: »
    ...and this is a first for me to see mark ruffalo in a serious role.

    BlindnessCC-SquareMTL.jpg

    you can count on me...?


  • #4
    JP Liz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭JP Liz


    released this weekend

    synopsis plus spoilers
    The movie begins when a few people gain sudden blindness.

    When the world is afraid it is contagion the government quarantines the group. Others follow in the government prison who are also blind and the movie follows the prison gang activities between three rooms of prisoners in their quest for survival. The outside is shut off and the characters are not shown what has become of the world during the movie.

    One of the rooms in the prison, Ward 3, is made up of all men prisoners who take over the food rations. The King of Ward 3 has a gun. As people begin to starve the room of all men offer food in exchange for valuables. After no more valuables are to be had an orgy with the women and wives is wanted.

    Women volunteer to save the rest of the prisoners from starvation. Half with bravery, half in tears they walk into the room of blind men reaching out in the air for them.

    The movie fades to black as you listen to grunts of the men and a flicker of a spotlight show a fist in air cracking down on the skull of a woman who has gone into shock and called by the blind men a "dead fish". The fist moves and the sound of the skull being hit as she is being raped with his loud voice "Move for me!" unsettles the other women who in the end of the scene bring out her dead body in their arms like pallbearers.

    This encourages one woman who had entered with her husband who has her sight try to launch a gang war fare in the government makeshift prison. She walks into Ward 3, kills the King, the group of men dissolve into disarray. One blind woman sets fire to Ward 3 and it begins to burn down, the heroin leads the blind outside into the main yard only to find the guards are gone and they are free. Only to discover that the world outside is also fallen to the illness, they make their way through littered streets to find everyone is blind.


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