DVD Rating: 2.5/5.0 Chicago – “Blindness” is one of the bleakest cinematic experiences of the last few years, shocking, violent, dirty, headache-inducing proof that what works on the page doesn’t always on the big or small screen and that even the most talented actors and director can sometimes stumble.
Before we go anywhere, please don’t let the critical response to “Blindness,” Fernando Mereilles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s incredible book affect your opinion of one of the more interesting authors of the last half-century. Saramago’s “The Stone Raft,” “All the Names,” and “The Cave” are must-reads.
“Blindness” opens with a man behind the wheel who suddenly sees nothing but a sea of white. Another man offers to help take him home and, of course, steals his car. The first man goes to see an eye doctor (Mark Ruffalo), who wakes up the next morning with the same visual disability.
Before we go anywhere, please don’t let the critical response to “Blindness,” Fernando Mereilles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s incredible book affect your opinion of one of the more interesting authors of the last half-century. Saramago’s “The Stone Raft,” “All the Names,” and “The Cave” are must-reads.
“Blindness” opens with a man behind the wheel who suddenly sees nothing but a sea of white. Another man offers to help take him home and, of course, steals his car. The first man goes to see an eye doctor (Mark Ruffalo), who wakes up the next morning with the same visual disability.
- 2/12/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The premise of Blindness is an intriguing one: an epidemic of white blindness strikes humanity, infecting almost everyone in the world over a short period of time. Soon enough, no one can see, save for a woman known to us only as the Doctor’s Wife (Julianne Moore.) When the blind are quarantined, packed into cells like zoo animals, she feigns blindness in order to stay close to her husband, and the story progresses from there. Predictably enough, the microcosmic society rapidly devolves into a deranged orgy of depravity, standing in for the rest of the world, which is likely suffering the same fate.
The film is based on Jose Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same name, and if you’ve read the book, the film will most definitely disappoint. Plot wise, it follows Saramago’s novel closely, almost to a fault, but it fails to resound with...
The film is based on Jose Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same name, and if you’ve read the book, the film will most definitely disappoint. Plot wise, it follows Saramago’s novel closely, almost to a fault, but it fails to resound with...
- 2/11/2009
- by Inna Mkrtycheva
- JustPressPlay.net
The premise of Blindness is an intriguing one: an epidemic of white blindness strikes humanity, infecting almost everyone in the world over a short period of time. Soon enough, no one can see, save for a woman known to us only as the Doctor’s Wife (Julianne Moore). When the blind are quarantined, packed into cells like zoo animals, she feigns blindness in order to stay close to her husband, and the story progresses from there. Predictably enough, the microcosmic society rapidly devolves into a deranged orgy of depravity, standing in for the rest of the world, which is likely suffering the same fate.
The film is based on Jose Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same name, and if you’ve read the book, the film will most definitely disappoint. Plot wise, it follows Saramago’s novel closely, almost to a fault, but it fails to resound with...
The film is based on Jose Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same name, and if you’ve read the book, the film will most definitely disappoint. Plot wise, it follows Saramago’s novel closely, almost to a fault, but it fails to resound with...
- 2/10/2009
- by Inna Mkrtycheva
- JustPressPlay.net
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