"Blind Flu": Please treat it as a fable

Aurore 2022-01-02 08:02:08

Amidst doubts and overwhelming criticism, the film "Blind Flu" directed by Fernando Merrills gradually entered the field of vision of domestic movie fans. In most opinions in the Western world, the film is as difficult as the blind people line up in the show and lead the way by an unblind woman alone. The film was adapted from Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s 1995 novel "A Story of Blindness". The author's caution in the original novel led to the refusal of the adaptation request of several directors until several years passed after final consultations. While deciding on the director candidates, some necessary conditions were also put forward. From this, we can understand the novelty of this theme but the reason for the failure that most movie fans believe to give a more or less explanation.

What "Blind Flu" shows is that kind of apocalyptic situation. However, this doomsday is not about aliens attacking the earth, nor is it caused by humans destroying the environment, like the "nurture". The same is that the emergence of a certain virus has caused humans to be helpless, and it has a strong ability to spread, which makes it infected one by one. Most zombie films indicate this path, and one thing that needs to be noted is that it is more common. Those doomsdays come either people will die, or they will be more cruel, like the story of "I am a legend" where there are not many human beings on the earth. For the "Blind Flu", the situation is that the virus exists and is not fatal. This For a virus that has no power to fight back, it blinds you and creates a whiteness that is contrary to the darkness in the usual sense. This makes the common end of the world that many fans want to see, and this type of film generally requires extremely powerful graphics to give visual support, and this makes people blind. Regarding the virus, whether it’s black or white, it’s difficult to deal with the impact of the picture. If you want to strengthen this point, it’s even more difficult, but choose "Jianbian 28" The shocking scene of the empty London city like "Sky" was also denied by the original author before the boot. One of the conditions for the adaptation was that the audience could not see the selected scene in the film. In this way, the entertainment and genre of the film are greatly weakened, and of course "Blind Flu" is not on this road.

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If "Blind Flu" is likened to a fable, I personally do not oppose this view. What is the fable? Contains stories about moral education or wisdom of the world. Why did the original author include the reason that the audience cannot be separated from the scene as a condition of the right to adapt the film? Perhaps it is intended to create a place unfamiliar to the audience and remove the factors that may interfere with the expression. Emphasis on the display of the human heart and the unreserved irony, so that some viewers can feel a certain shocking experience that usually cannot be experienced in this type of film. From the beginning of the virus in the film, it was precisely the beginning of the first person, focusing on the inner world of the blind and normal people and the treatment of both, until the blind people were collectively imprisoned to prevent infection, the audience All that can be seen is that a group of blind people are imprisoned. So far, the focus of the film has been focused on the huge number of blind people who were finally ignored. How does each of them deal with this new situation? Sudden blind life is gradually unfolding into a world where the weak eat the most. As mentioned before, the fable is like "Blind Flu". To dig deeper in the face of logical loopholes can only be asking for trouble. This film pursues the logical meaning of nothing and more needs to look at the relationship between people and human nature. . The arrival of the ending will not be puzzling when viewed with fables. It is only blindness, not a deadly virus that exposes all the dark sides of human nature. Who is blind will think of the final change in the full display of all things? The word morality does not exist between the light and the dark, so where does it exist? Maybe it's in every audience of this film.

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Extended Reading
  • Layla 2022-04-20 09:01:59

    If you get the blind flu, you will be shut down in an abandoned nursing home and no one will care about it. The theme of infectious diseases has become a desert island battle royale. Is a good play inspired by this? The more it goes on, the more outrageous it becomes. Why is only the heroine immune? I don't understand, I don't understand the ending and I don't understand, okay? gosh

  • Mabelle 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    What are you kidding me about Nima's human nature, when a sane person's behavior doesn't fit the logic of human behavior, that means he must be an idiot

Blindness quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Doctor's Wife: The only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.

  • [from trailer]

    Doctor: I can't see. I think I have the white virus.