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Lionel 2022-03-22 09:02:10

In such a strong film that aims to show human nature, I watched a bunch of people heatedly discussing why the heroine was not blind, and I was also drunk, and I was very annoyed and slapped the moral stick all day long, talking about scum all day long. But at my level, it is still only suitable for watching movies~.

What kind of hatred does Saramago have with punctuation? I can only tolerate commas and periods. Tendency to look super tired. Fortunately, there is an audio file, which perfectly solves the dilemma. In the postscript, "Saramaggo himself explained that readers should read his work aloud, so as to grasp the rhythm, because his written language is spoken," like One person tells a story to another person like "." The crooked hit is right, isn't it~.

Watching "The Handmaid's Tale", I think Atwood is a master of transitions. Watching "Blindness", I think that Saramago is invincible in moving the mirror, and the switching of topics is smoother.

No matter whether it is a movie or a novel, the level of stinky and stinky is directly higher than that of "Perfume". The key is just the stinky and stinky opening, which accounts for 90% of the total, which is really bad.

"When a dog dies, its rabies will be cured naturally." In the book, the blind man crawls like an animal in a mental hospital. The mental hospital should be implying that what is wrong is the human mind.

Title: Everyone prefers the flu of blindness, and always feels that the manga of blindness is too light and can't express the heaviness of the whole book. Of course, it may be that my understanding of the word is wrong. Anyway, I thought of " The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The doctor's wife went outside to pick up a hoe: In the movie, it was obvious that the soldier was playing with her, which was more conflicting, and it was a more emotional highlight than the middle finger shot. This part of the book is a bit bland, and of course it may be a dark tide that I didn't read.

Although it is obvious that black people can be distinguished from tone of voice, the beard in the film is too wrong, but the newly added skin color stalk clearly expresses the paradox and meaninglessness of distinguishing people by skin color/race.

The doctor's infidelity: In the movie, before he had sex with the woman in sunglasses, because he didn't want his wife to feed him, there was a dispute. When he blamed himself for not having the courage to resist the threat of violence, it was the woman in sunglasses who comforted him. Fan communicated with the first blind person), and "knowing that I have killed people is very uncomfortable", and the relationship between giving and being given with his wife is no longer equal, and the woman in sunglasses gave understanding and comfort and also talked Because of his own pain, the sexual relationship between the doctor and the woman with sunglasses is more "natural", and the two people who have lost everything give each other comfort. In addition, as for his recollection of the past, he thought it was the girl in sunglasses who took the initiative to look for him. I don't think it was to reveal the nature of a scumbag, but it was more like what was described in the novel Rashomon, because the memory itself is not purely objective.

Wife's understanding: I feel that my wife is no longer an ordinary person, but a saint with compassion. In the novel, the topless section of making food for everyone has the intention of mentioning the Statue of Liberty. In the film, a shot of her framed in a cross-shaped window also implies the savior.

Discussion on whether to exchange a woman's body for food: In the movie, the doctor speaks first, which makes me feel very hateful. It is he who pushes his wife out. It's more believable, but I don't understand why the movie made such a big change to the character's personality. "Several of the women announced that they regretted that they had agreed to the sexual requests of the male inmates out of generosity and sympathy. I can't think of them now thanking them like this and trying to push them into the fire pit." In fact, this kind of physical comfort is mutual Mutual, but since it was "announced", it may be just rhetoric. After all, whether it's the woman in sunglasses and the doctor "all having fun", or another pair of men and women holding hands after sex, it's not one gender versus another. Cater or alms.

In the clinic, the doctor said to the girl wearing sunglasses, "You can only take off your glasses when you are sleeping": "This humorous sentence has been said for many years in the book, and you can even imagine that ophthalmologists have said it from generation to generation, but it works every time. , The doctor said with a smile, the patient listened with a smile, and this time it was not in vain because the girl had beautiful teeth and knew how to show them.", Just a friendly and friendly exchange, why does the movie seem to be provocative, Mark is full of firepower Has the show started?

Car Stealer: At the beginning of the book, it was purely out of good intentions to help the first blind person to drive, and after the injury, he showed more goodwill.

Men and women: vulgar, greedy, most men embody the evil of human nature, the doctor is a kind ordinary person, the old man who stood up at the critical moment to stop his wife from surrendering himself (I remember correctly) said something like "I am not a man, just a man." old man", and he was clearly a man (smooth sex). Women are the incarnation of goodness and beauty in human nature. Except for the saint-like doctor's wife, the girl in sunglasses takes care of the little boy they don't know, the first quarrel between the blind couple, and the one who set fire to the mental hospital is also a woman. Even in the novel, the old lady who drank blood and returned to the animal state still held the key to the house of the girl with sunglasses that she promised to return before her death. The movie greatly simplifies the part after the escape. It is a pity that this character did not appear.

Julian Moore once again showed her body naturally like a European actress, but this scene was not filmed well, I only remember laughter, I didn't pay attention to whether it was on the balcony~.

How did the woman in sunglasses and the old man really fall in love? Although both are very kind. But the old man didn't treat her very well. She wanted to use the old man's radio to listen to music but was ruthlessly rejected, so why did she take the initiative to go to bed with the old man? Why did she decide to be together after she regained her sight? What am I missing! You Qi wrote that she only "Ah, Mr. Doctor" after "both of them are enjoying themselves".

I feel like I added a lot of scenes showing the distance between the first blind couple, but it didn't show anything~.

"I think we're blind now; blind people who can see; blind people who can see but can't see."

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Blindness quotes

  • Doctor: [joking] Those who agreed, please raise your hand.

  • Thief: That's the asshole who's responsible for all this, if I had my fuckin' eyes I'd kill him.

    First Blind Man: [to Thief] He's responsible for stealing my car.