The Movie Blindness
Sadly blindness may realise its director s worst fear.
The movie blindness. With julianne moore mark ruffalo gael garcía bernal yûsuke iseya. 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. Directed by fernando meirelles.
To produce not only an exploitation b movie but one paradoxically spoiled by its own integrity and misplaced artistic mise en scène. As the traffic lights change a young japanese professional yusuke iseya is suddenly struck blind for no apparent reason and blocks all the traffic behind his car. The story of blindness begins on a morning in an unnamed city during rush hour traffic.
Not only is it despairing and sickening it s ugly. Denatured sometimes overexposed sometimes too shadowy to see it is an. The film is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by the portuguese author josé saramago the film was written by don mckellar and directed by fernando meirelles starring julianne moore as the doctor s wife and mark ruffalo as the doctor.
