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Blindness Director: Fernando Meirelles Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya

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  • DVD Release Date: 02/10/2009
  • Original Release: 2008
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 14,685

Viewer Rating: (4 ratings)

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"A Vision of Blindness" - Making of Blindness documentary; Deleted scenes

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Disc #1 -- Blindness
1. Intersection [2:43]
2. Going Blind [4:41]
3. City of Guelph [2:10]
4. Brightness [2:47]
5. Quest for Saramago [3:07]
6. Shooting Day 1 [1:26]
7. She's Pure Cinema [1:38]
8. First Blind Couple [1:50]
9. Black Lenses [1:56]
10. Multi-Camera [2:08]
11. The King of the Ward 3 [2:01]
12. Women for Food [2:21]
13. Fire [2:49]
14. Guerrilla Style [2:41]
15. Big Day [1:03]
16. Doctor's Office [1:07]
17. São Paulo Shooting [:51]
18. Action! Don [:54]
19. Montevideo [2:07]
20. "Let's Review the Action" [3:07]
21. Sea of White: VFX of Blindness [2:41]
22. What a Director Does [1:15]
23. The Score [1:32]
24. Rain [2:45]
25. Epilogue [3:36]
1. Blindness
2. Bizarre Case
3. Infectious
4. Ward 1
5. Welcome Newcomers
6. Radio Update
7. Turmoil
8. King of Ward 3
9. Nothing Left to Offer
10. Moral Resignation
11. State of War
12. Free
13. New Beginning
14. A Leader With Vision
15. Sight
16. End Credits

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Editorial Reviews

Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's novel Blindness begins when an epidemic of blindness strikes the world. Mark Ruffalo stars as an eye doctor who awakens one morning to find that he suffers from the unexplained disorder. He, along with other victims, is sent to a government detention center so that they can be quarantined. His wife (Julianne Moore) pretends to be blind so that she can be with him inside the institution. Their time in the center grows more and more desperate as food and supplies dwindle, and one of the other citizens (Gael García Bernal) exercises dictatorial control over the others after he acquires a weapon. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide

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Not an easy movieby Effex

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September 24, 2009: This movie is difficult to classify, at Barnes & Noble it is kept under Horror/Thriller though aside from the plot point of "Blindness" this could easily fall under Drama. As others have said the film is about this blindness disease that makes everyone start seeing white at all times. They never go into the medical "why" or "how" of how this happened. This isn't that kind of film. It shares with "28 days later" the apocalypse type scenes of entire city streets abandoned due to something no one understands. And what different people do because of that, and that is the part where "Horror" and "Drama" mix.

The first half of the film features the first group of blind as they try to cope with their disease and hope for the best, they even try to get along in a government ward with little provisions and no supervision. As more people come into the ward and differing personalities start to collide the film becomes extremely difficult to watch and proves to a be a very strong "R" rating.

The second half, after the group leaves the facility has an oddly freeing quality after having been stuck in the wards. Even as an audience not knowing what is being done in their outside world to help them is affecting. Not in the least an uplifting film, I found the movie to be interesting and intellectually stimulating. A film I would recommend and definitely interesting to watch and discuss afterwards.

I Also Recommend: 28 Days Later.

A Waste of Time.by Hugo-Z-Hackenbush

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September 16, 2009: Unentertaining, unitellegent, uncivilised, uninspired, uninspiring. Of course there was the surprise of the stock footage. Way to go Hollywood!


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