"Blind Influenza" very faithfully restores the plot of the original "Blindness". Facing such an original book with the blessing of the Nobel Prize, director Fernando Merrills chose to restrain. In particular, the original author Jose Saramago is best at telling stories, so the plot respects the original work to the greatest extent and avoids the risk of superfluous. After all, high-grade ingredients are eaten raw, but the original taste is sought.
After reading the book and then watching the film, you will have a more critical eye. In particular, the metaphors in the book are not easy to express, and some philosophical speculations that can only be understood in the film often lose their layers and flavors. Judging from the final presentation, the film focuses on telling things. It originally tells a grotesque story of the end of the world. Some ideological things are not deliberately excavated, but only events are given for the audience to experience. In fact, this is not uncommon and feasible. It is just that the original monument is first, which has aroused the appetite of the audience, and the passing line will be very high. If you deliberately express the depth of thought, then the film may be relatively obscure. Under the balance, it is better to ensure the completion of the story first.
Since the story cannot be played at will, then work hard on audio-visual, art, and photography. This is exactly what director Fernando is good at.
The scene is realistic, but the scale is simplified so that it will not stimulate the audience too much.
Audio-visual continues the talent shown by the director in "City of God", transforming the subjective feeling of white blindness into a specific visual image, and subtly connecting the transitions.
The lens is flexible and changeable, but it does not feel deliberate. Some hand-held, close-up, and abnormal compositions are naturally integrated into the image flow, making it easy to play.
The tone is obviously subtracted, but it is not black and white. This should be a compromise choice made by the director between the theme tone and commerciality.
The performance is quite satisfactory, there is no surprise and no points will be deducted. The selection of actors is generally in line with the character's positioning. Especially the doctor, after reading the book, I feel that the actor's grasp is just right, a decent elite with powerless, occasionally scum, but will be strangled on the annoying boundary line.
about women
In the church, the priest preached: "God influenced Paul and made him blind at the same time." When people are blind, they can really see and see the true nature of human nature.
People have been blind for too long, so a blindness disease comes as promised. The heroine with the ideal characteristics of human nature was selected by God to take on the role of Noah and become the lone lamp to save mankind.
When the apocalypse comes, there is a gap left at the bottom of the ruins. The last survivors of mankind were able to breathe here. The pillars of that gap are feminine tenderness and tenacity.
Saramago, Márquez, Alfonso Cuarón... these male masters have dedicated their deepest love and reverence to women.
In some ways, good women are God's merciful patron saints of humanity: at the beginning of life, they give birth to human beings; when they are strong, let them go to the earth; when they are weak, they open their arms and receive them Back to their nests to rest; when their natural weakness led them into perilous loss, they rose to the fore, silently raising the last line of defense on the edge of the cliff.
Where there is them, there is safety.
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