Blindness

BLINDNESS, Jose Saramago's much-loved novel, is brought to the screen by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (CITY OF GOD). A blindness epidemic strikes an unnamed city. When the world is afraid it is contagion, the government quarantines the group. Others follow in the government prison who are also blind. There is a doctor and his wife (respectively played by Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore). The doctor is suddenly blind, forced Unable to conceive of life without him, Moore's character feigns blindness and joins him in the grimy high-security institution where visually impaired citizens are kept. The story is telling about their attempt to survive in the rotting facility, which quickly falls into disrepair and chaos.
Meirelles's movie, which essentially functions as an allegory for societal collapse, is an alarming and often distressing look at the dark side of human nature. The director often saturates the film with milky white color, reflecting the bright light the blind see when the condition besets them. An atmosphere of tangible dread manifests itself as BLINDNESS progresses, and the ugly scenes of rape and brawling, largely caused by the meager food rationing among the blind, makes for emotional viewing.
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Release Date :Oct 3 ,2008