Blindness Movie Review
But in between it s heavy gloomy and at times pretty hard to sit through.
Blindness movie review. Denatured sometimes overexposed sometimes too shadowy to see it is an. A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness. He reviews dozens of movies but hasn t seen any of them.
Cinema is a visual medium so no film version of blindness could entirely reproduce its buried literary conceit of the blind reader having to imagine what the narrator is describing and yet. It is an allegory about a group of people who survive under great stress but frankly i would rather have seen them perish than sit through the final three quarters of the film. Blindness movie reviews metacritic score.
Aside from the blindness angle there isn t much here to separate this film from other personal disaster films to differentiate them from natural disaster films which would include earthquakes tidal waves and tornados such as movies about plagues 28 days later zombies dawn of the dead or infectious diseases outbreak. I would like to see it again myself but this time in the version i can share with several of my relatives whose vision is no longer present. If the subject interests you don t let my mildly negative review dissuade you from going to see it.
Tommy edison the blind film critic talks to luke buckmaster about american hustle audio description and the joys of his first silent movie. Blindness is about human nature and shows both the positives and the negatives inherent in it. Not only is it despairing and sickening it s ugly.
Notes on blindness has won several awards since its sundance film festival premiere. With julianne moore mark ruffalo gael garcía bernal yûsuke iseya. Directed by fernando meirelles.
The movie is about exploring how humanity might respond in a situation like this and the response that is shown can be extrapolated to other situations.
