Blindness

Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's novel -Blindness begins when an epidemic of blindness strikes the world. Mark Ruffalo stars as an eye doctor who awakens one morning to find that he suffers from the unexplained disorder. He, along with other victims, is ...more

For the victims of an inexplicable vision-robbing epidemic in Blindness, the world suddenly turns into a stark white canvas. Viewers of the film, however, are privy to the grime, excrement, and dismal tones decorating a society where desperation gives way to chaos. That said, the unnamed city in which sightlessness takes hold doesn’t look too lustrous to begin with. Director Fernando Meirelles’ (City of God) film opens on a street cloaked underneath a murky haze; flashes of green, yellow, and ...more