Blindness

Blindness

  • Director: Fernando Meirelles
  • Writer: José Saramago,Don McKellar
  • Countries of origin: Brazil, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy
  • Language: English, Japanese
  • Release date: October 3, 2008
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Đại Dịch Mù Lòa
  • "Blindness" is a thriller film co-produced by Rhombus Media, Films, Bee Vine Pictures, Alliance Films, and Ancine, which was launched in Brazil on September 12, 2008. The film is directed by Fernando Meirelles , Julianne Moore , and Mark Alan. Starring Ruffalo , Gael García Bernal, etc. 
    The film tells the story of a civilized society falling into chaos after an unexplained epidemic of blindness suddenly broke out. 

    Details

    • Release date October 3, 2008
    • Filming locations Montevideo, Uruguay
    • Production companies Rhombus Media, O2 Filmes, Bee Vine Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $25,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $3,351,751

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $1,950,260

    Gross worldwide

    $19,844,979

    Movie reviews

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    • By Rebecca 2022-04-20 09:01:59

      Evil, waiting for an opportunity

      Another film that shows how fragile human civilization is. This is one of my favorite themes. It exposes the weaknesses of human nature in broad daylight. The satire is everywhere, and it can be described as hearty.
        
      The film sees how the entire human civilization collapsed in an instant through the eyes of Julianne Moore, the only person in the whole story who was not infected with the blind flu. From the moment when the first infected person's car was stolen, the evil side of...

    • By Buster 2022-04-20 09:01:59

      Don't ruin my Portuguese!

      As soon as I saw the name last year, I immediately knew what

      a wonderful play the American peasants had started with Portugal. The moment I saw the movie, I recalled being yelled at by Jia Hongsheng from the century-old lecture hall. Out of misery. It was the May day in the world, there was no suffocating heat, and there were no mosquitoes and uncles staring at my thighs. I deliberately put on my mother’s ankle-length layers on my sneakers, which made me fluttering when I walked....

    • By Bradford 2022-04-20 09:01:59

      Chocolate lost by nesting doll

      "Blind Influenza", the film I just finished watching. The whole film feels good, as if you are reading a novel - the traditional moral and legal system has fallen, in a miniature country of blind people, human beings adapt and grow, and then the formation of power, the emergence of violent systems, the emergence of people's Compromise until final resistance, freedom. In short, this is a rapidly developing history of mankind. Why is it blind? There is such a paragraph in the film, a white man is...

    • By Keegan 2022-04-20 09:01:59

      Never completely disappointed in humanity

      Gentle and balanced like classical music at the end, the blind flu is over.

        Taking the fire in the isolation area as the dividing point, the film can be divided into two halves.
      The first half is sharp, cruel, and naked human nature is revealed; the second half, gentleness (warmth), hope, family, recovery...

        Music, I always think it is one of the souls of the movie. In the quarantine area, the elderly black people are holding radios and playing happy dance music for...

    • By Merritt 2022-04-19 09:02:21

      The true meaning of loss and gain

      I thought it was a cliché sci-fi movie when I saw the name . The setting
      in front of it was like that
      . The dark side of human nature in a special environment is so desperate When it comes to the expected desolate world , people who have lost their vision in the supermarket to compete for the bottom line of survival in the former bustling city, high-rise and famous cars become so meaningless. I think if it is just a short-lived flu? What if people suddenly saw this wolf-like world...

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    • By Melba 2022-04-24 07:01:15

      Using fables to explore human nature, the director's control is not enough, and it is more confusing. The ending turns abruptly, especially the narration is...

    • By Gerald 2022-04-23 07:02:57

      It's super stressful to watch, and there are films that are better than 28...

    • By Alexys 2022-04-23 07:02:57

      Not too bad, just this subject matter could be...

    • By Maud 2022-04-23 07:02:57

      The small regret is that when I read the book, I imagined Portuguese in my mind. Also the rhythm doesn't fit very...

    • By Alexander 2022-04-23 07:02:57

      The script is very good, but the filming is so-so, if you have time, you must read the original...

    Movie plot

    A Japanese man who was about to drive through a traffic light suddenly couldn't see everything in front of him, he could only see the vast expanse of whiteness. He was the first person to suffer from Blindness. A seemingly kind passerby offered to take him home and sent him home, but drove away. His wife took him to see an ophthalmologist (Mark Alan Ruffalo) , but the doctor could not find the cause of the patient's sudden blindness....
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    Actor selection

    In September 2006, the film raised a budget of 25 million U.S. dollars. Fei Nanduo chose a city in Brazil as the main filming location for the film. At the same time, he chose Canada and The Oriental Republic of Uruguay for other locations. land. In order to fulfill the promise to the original author of the novel, the producer Neve deliberately arranged to choose cities in South America and the natural scenery on the shores of Lake...
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    Evaluation action

    "Blindness" is not so optimistic, the movie shows the destructive power of too many people. The worst relationship between people. These seem to be instincts too. From this point of view, the complexity of human society comes from the complexity of human beings. (Netease Entertainment Review) 
    Fernando Meirelles tried to make this film smart and sci-fi, but after the film was screened, his ability in this aspect was not recognized by...
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    Movie quotes

    • First Blind Man: He stole my car.

      Doctor: It doesn't matter, what are you gonna do with a car, you can't drive anyway?

      Thief: [referring to thief] He stole my sight!

    • Doctor: You of all people... born blind should understand empathy... and human decency.

      King of Ward 3: Shut up. Shut up. He's blind. That's all. That doesn't make him good or bad! That just makes him blind. And now, he's blind with a purpose. Because he's looking out for the sick and the hungry of his own ward.

    • Narator: At that moment... the same unspoken thought occurred to everyone: "He was the first to go blind. Perhaps... we will all regain our sight in turn." So the celebration was not entirely selfless. The next days, the next weeks... would therefore be sleepless with anticipation. They would see again. This time, they would really see. But who would be so timid... as to cling to this blanket of blindness? Who would be so foolish as to fear... that its intimacies might be lost? And what of this woman... who is now so strangely silent... who has borne such a terrible weight... and is now so suddenly free? Already she could imagine the voices of the city, shouting: "I can see!" "I'm going blind", she thought.