Blindness (2008) Review
Written by: prddad
I'll come out and tell you flat out: this movie isn't horror. I wasn't scared one bit, I wasn't terrified for the characters within the movie. There were no creatures from the darkness lurking out for victims, there was nothing inside the body wanting to burst out. Flat out...IT'S NOT HORROR. So, why am I reviewing it? Because the human aspect of this drama is scary enough for me to give it an 8-out-of-10, and I think the director is dead-on when it comes to knowing how humans will react when put against the wall of despair.
Plot---suddently, one day, a man is driving and he goes blind. Well, we've heard the stories, blah blah blah, but his blindness was different. He didn't see darkness, he saw white, which is unusual. Also unusual for it to happen out of the blue. He sees a doctor, who can't help him, but the next morning the doctor can't see. Get it? Title is BLINDNESS, so someone/somepeople are gonna be blind. The government, afraid, put the blind people in a "housing facility" until they can come up with a solution/cure, forcing those inside, those newly blind, to cope for themselves. But, what they don't know is, the wife of the doctor, the woman who has been with her husband so long, is not blind, though should be, and is with him, death due them part...I'm sure you get the drift of it. Honestly, I was ready to turn it off I was bored. But I kept going. Then as I watched I realized that I wasn't bored anymore, I was appalled by what the writer, the director was trying to imply: that we, as a whole, wouldn't help one another. That if push came to shove, we would fight one another than help, we would rape and pillage because we could. And it's sick but he is right. In the movie, the depictions of humanity is cruel and sick and absolutely right. And that is why this movie is great. Not excellent, but great...
- Actors---Julianne Moore portrays the wife. Stunning as always, it is she who I felt the most for, since she was the one who saw it all. Excellent performance!!!
- Director---no idea, but excellent job...
- Nudity---yes, but honestly, I was too shocked to really notice anything. When the time comes to "exchange for food", you'll know what I mean...
- CGI---none...
- Gore---none...
- Scares---none, but I'm sure the prospect of not seeing is terrifying enough...
Bottom line---I'm not suggesting you to watch this movie, I'm recommending you to watch something that will open your eyes to the way the way one person sees how this world is...and that is not even thru a blind-man's eye...