Blindness (2008)

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: 21 November 2008 (UK)
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: Book and script alike use the literal blinding of the characters as an allegory for human beings' innate moral blindness, the capacity for "prejudice, selfishness, violence and willful indifference" due to the inability to share another's point of view. The Doctor's Wife's empathy becomes important as the only sighted individual while conversely, the Doctor character loses his own false self-image with his vision.Goofs: Factual errors: When the first blind man arrives home, he says he lives on the 14th floor. After his wife arrives you can see some trees through the kitchen window. Those trees should not be there.

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