'Blindness' review

Chelseayne from Boise ID - December 20, 2008 at 4:32 AM

I think the movie was very offending. Especially at the part when they had began to have the woman "work" for the food. The movie was ridiculous. I ended up storming out because the movie was not worth my time. The movie is not worth spending any amount of money on.

what from internet - November 07, 2008 at 5:09 AM

I read the book in 2000 and it sounds to me the movie has been true to teh book. It was an excellent book but left me feeling exactly the way people seem to describe the movie leaving them- dirty, scared and so intense that I wasn't sure I could take it. Did the movie reviewers read the book? What was expected? These reviews make me want to go see the movie because I recall how horribly compelling the book was because it reached me so deeply in making me feel a part of the squalor and stink.

120Nicole021 from O Town - October 06, 2008 at 2:38 PM

This is not the kind of movie that you make you feel better about yourself after seeing, but in the most powerful way you will be moved. You will feel what the suddenly blind must have felt when the screen goes white and they are left helpless. In a place where order is gone and everyone is left to fend for themselves. Evolution comes from everything and in this film it is shown it to the most extreme, a wild and crazy order comes out of a small room and takes over life for all of those who are forced to stay. The movie is an amazing work of art and a glimpse of how human we all can be…

majicdanser from SoCal - October 05, 2008 at 2:59 AM

Pedigree be darned. The movie was filthy and left me feeling fithly enough to want to warn others before they venture out looking for a profound statement about humanity in crisis. This isn't the vision that we want to hold or to even understand, really, because the film version of Blindness just CANNOT honor the words of Saramago's Portugese. The book treads in a different tone than the sloppy, fecal-filled hallways of the sound-assulted wards of the infirm. And the infirm turn into humanity's worst rather than humanity's best. It's a tragic look at a tragic situation, and the set design did little to help the wildly unfocused director's camera. My vote is to miss this one and rent it later if you must. If you go because you think I'm not right or somehow not able to be sensitive to art house film issues, go ahead. But remember that I warned you, and do turn around and write your own BEWARE OF THE DOG sign on the comment section of "Blindness."

LeeLoo from Irvine - October 04, 2008 at 1:55 PM

I watched this movie last night all excited and happy until it started. The only other movie that has been this frustrating was Dogville with Nicole Kidman. I couldn't believe how long it was and how pissed off I got when NO ONE DID ANYTHING to get out of the horrible things that were happening to them. FRUSTRATING. Not theater worthy, not even rental worthy which sucks because I LOVE LOVE LOVE Julianne Moore. GRRRRRR

Julio from Rio from Rio de Janeiro - October 03, 2008 at 10:39 PM

The name Fernando Meirelles is a guarantee of high quality and great art. This film is another one of his master píeces : intense, daring and most of all extremely human. Prof. Julio Cezar do Amaral Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.