Studio: Miramax
Critics have been missing the point when it comes to this thriller that narrowly escapes being a modern horror movie. This feature film based on Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago’s novel doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to depicting humanity’s shortcomings. The tale begins when a young man stops his car in traffic because he’s suddenly lost his ability to see. The man is taken home by a stranger, and soon an epidemic of blindness occurs. A woman (Julianne Moore) pretends she has the illness, and she and her husband are transported to an abandoned mental hospital where the quarantined people commit horrific acts against one another. Blindness is an ironically timely film about how widespread deprivation can lead to moral corruption. –forrest green III
