I love it, it's like beautiful scene from beautiful film, but it was just real life. Jose makes me feel, my heart is crying, i miss him, i can't forget about that man. And I hate death, because it took Jose, seperate from us who are living, left and what it give us? Just missing and pain how that beautiful person may died , not live forever.
A good job of a great book, but I think Polanski would have pulled it off better since in terms of theme (paranioa, helplesness) it's right up his alley.
The president of Portugal did not attend the funeral it was against their literature, It's a shame the president of this country, Saramago as a simple man who had no instruction born in a small village has become a great writer a genius adored by many and hated by non-envious. R.I.P from Portugal
Saramago will be missed among us all. Not just us, portuguese people, but people all around the world that worship his amazing work. He physically left us but his work will be alive for all the eternity. He is an institution and his books are masterpieces. No one could write like him, our national pride, José Saramago deserves a round of applause due to his performance in life. Because he was a truely treasure that we all cherish.
Sob, snif, snif, sob. I will REALLY miss him. I have read all his books (almost) and I also watched the movie. I love him so much! I hope he is in a better place now :-(
What an engaging and chocking movie it is, with the great actress Julianne Moore, and so many others, and the director Meirelles who totally respected the masterpiece that the fantastic portuguese writer Jose Saramago did. REST IN PEACE =(
Grazie,Maestro,per tutto quello che mi hai dato con la tua scrittura,per tutta l'ironia che riversavi nel tuo stile mai banale ma sempre diretto e struggente e per tutte le ore che abbiamo passato insieme perché a leggere un tuo libro mi sentivo di fianco a te. Hai cambiato il mio modo di vedere con il tuo Saggio sulla Cecità e con gli altri tuoi libri mi hai fatto solo emozionare. Con la speranza di poterti rivedere,comunque,un giorno,dovunque tu ora sia,grazie di cuore di tutto.
THE BEST movie I have ever seen. It shows how terribly beautiful, and terribly hideous humanity can be. And both exist, living in parallel with each other
The book was basically transcribed to the big screen. The directing and photography was pretty neat. All the scene structure made up for the lines and descriptions which couldn't fit in the script. If you ask me I'd say Blindness is a great movie. I mean, it's heavy and stuff, but it's very good.
The book is absolutely brilliant! In many ways, it cannot really be translated to the screen, because the soul of Saramago's writing is in the sparsely punctuated, flowing, compassionate and yet ironic voice of the narrator, which no movie can ever replicate.
The book and the movie are completely different, but they share some common places. Saramago understood it and loved the movie, well maybe because he's INTELLIGENT!. I say fuck the critics that bashed the movie. Both the movie and the books are great. The ending of the movie is so warm and full of hope.
@Matheusss89 because he is unpatriotic a communist and a iberista that wanted to hand over portugal to spain!..tell me do u think hes wordy of respect?
i am sorry for you saramago as old as you are you do not know you will soon meet your maker and give account of all the terrible things you have said you will wish to take back those words but it will be too late cant you learn from voltaire who wished ha could turn back things but it was too late for him why not make ammend of your life and dont perish in hell
I haven't had the pleasure to read the book, i guess it is a really good one considering that LatinAmerican literature it is simply one of the best... However, i think the film is good, maybe not my favorite, but i enjoyed so much... it made me think of a lot of things...
José Saramago is a portuguese author, he's not latinoamerican. I've read this book twice, and I've read some of his books. This Man is incredible, his vision of the world is stunning. When I watched the movie the first time, I was happy as I was when I read it the first time. It was... a pleasure..!! =D I recommend it!
I am sure I will get some thumbs down due to my comment but honestly I think the movie was not good. But I also need to write that I always though that to make a movie about that book is a huge challenge. It must be like to try to make a movie about Hundred years of solitude.
its a pretty deep movie, and I haven't read the book, but only these guys know what the book is really all about, that's why people like me can't really appreciate it. I tried to like it, but it's not exactly star wars. It doesn't follow the template of the hero's journey or anything like that. so, yeah it's not a good movie if you compare it with the typical arc that hollywood movies have implanted in your soul.
First of all don't make comments about my taste in films because you don't know me.
Saramago's book is one of the best in my opinion the movie is not good according to my opinion, and that does not mean that my opinion is the last word, is just my opinion.
Just learn to respect other people opinion. You liked and thats fine, but we all can't think the same way you do
hey dude, I'm guessing English is not your first language because if you carefully read what I wrote, I never judged your taste. frankly, I don't give a shit about your taste. and on top of that, I didn't like the movie. I hated it. stop being so insecure and thinking that everyone is trying to diss you. relax, you'll live longer.
Wow, to get the thumbs up right from the source. And Jose was touched, brought to tears. That's fantastic. Congrats to Fernando for making such a well crafted film adapted from a fantastic book.
I'm confused. At the end of the movie it shows the woman looking into the sky and its white, does this mean she was blind the entire time or that she became blind near the end of the movie, if anyone knows please respond to this. Thank you
a metaphore for the kind of blindness that disables the mind, if I understood correctly. (I had not yet the pleasure of reading the book but I can still kinda guess what that metaphore would be.)
No, she never was blind, she just looked at the sky. In the book is very clear. By the way, its the best book i have ever read. But i havent seen the movie yet.
there was the white sky, she was looking at, but as she rolled down her eyes she could see the buildings. She wasn't blind, and i don't think she turned blind at the end either. Maybe she could only really see when everyone else was blind.
dificilmente de un excelente libro se obtiene una gran pelicula, pero siempre hay casos extraordinarios donde uno puede apreciar ambas obras de tan grandiosa calidad. Felicidades al director por hacer una oba de calidad de una de las mejores novelas contemporaneas.
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M'he emocionat al veure la reacció del josé saramago. El llibre el vaig trobar extraordinari i la pel·lícula m'ha agradat molt, trobo que està molt ben adaptada!!
es genial ver cómo el autor de la novela llora de emoción tras ver su trabajo hecho película...y es increíble descubrir que el lugar en el que mantienen a los ciegos en la película era tal y como me lo había imaginado cuando la leí por primera vez! Es sin duda mi novela favorita, y creo que Meirelles ha hecho una gran película.
ahhh, if only all writers who've had their works adapted to film felt like this! the world would have many more good films in it right now. Saramago is very, very lucky.
es broma? es una de las peores adaptaciones literarias al cine que he visto en mi vida. Las metáforas se extinguen por completo, la pelicula no muestra nada "entre lineas"..
"Ensaio sobre a cegueira" ("Blindness", in the english translation) is the most accurate metaphor on what we've been turning ourselves into. I watched the movie last week, and I must say I didn't know, before that, how it would be possible to make a film that would dignify such a masterpiece. Fernando Meirelles did it the simple way, being faithful to what José Saramago had imagined and creating an extraordinarily adequate visual atmosphere.
...y que leere yo cuando este genio nos deje? Supongo que me conformare con releerle una y otra vez...
La de gente que hay en el mundo que no conoce a Saramago: Yo lo he regalado en Irlanda, Alemania, Francia,... y es que es absolutamente universal. Y esas lagrimas, yo si fuera Fernando no me cabria el corazon de orgullo.
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El gorod que está al lado de Saramago, además de ser un pelotudo que habla mientras suena el hermoso sonido del oboe, es un adulador, chupaculos, obsecuente, lisonjero de cuarta.
everyones a f*^%ing critic, but hey most of you wouldn't know good filming and the concept of capturing moments if it hit you upside the head. im glad that people who dont like a movie and PAY to see it never get there money back..so while your crying about a movie that sucked others are laughing all the way to the bank..this movie was epic it was a metaphor of how our society through democracy doesn't work and when carried into blindness it shows how we should avoid it. Helpingeachotheriskey!
Incrível...um Português e um Brasileiro a discutirem em inglês acerca de um filme de um realizador brasileiro, baseado num romance de um escritor português, que por sua vez é falado em inglês...
First: comparing Fernando Meirelles with a 3 year old child is a baaaaad choice of terms.
Second: You talk as if Saramago was naive. OMG, have you read Blindess? Or, at least, have you really seen this movie? We're talking about a great mind here. The person that has wroten such a book - in his own language! - is a person that can separate a good movie about his work from a bad one, ability which you, sadly, lack.
children are honest. They will not draw how you see it, they will draw how they see it. And that's how movies works, specially when based in a book: an interpretation.
Everything people do is, in some manner, to interprete, to read into other people's intentions and or thoughts. Sometimes they get it right and really know it, sometimes they don't and other times they are so full of hot air ( not to say another thing ) they can't ever get right what they ( supposedly ) read. And, before anyone gets what I wrote wrong, I was referring to interpretation in general and not to this movie's interpretation. I have neither seen the movie nor read the novel.
eu li o livro e tornou-se no meu livro preferido, ainda estou a espera de poder ver o filme mas tenho as expectativas no maximo. adorei a cidade de deus e o fiel jardineiro e espero k estes esteja no minimo ao mesmo nivel. Saramago é para mim o melhor escritor da actualidade e basicamente o unico que quando compro um livro sei que o vou começar a ler e conseguir acabar sem me desapontar. o livro nunca perde o ritmo e ha sempre algo novo que nao estamos a espera.
Jose Saramago is one of the best writers. Ever. And I anxiously await the day that someone makes a film of Baltasar and Blimunda--as long as it's good.
Que legal esse video! Nesse exato momento o Meirelles tá dando uma entrevista no Uol. Ele disse que assistir ao filme com o Saramago foi um dos piores momentos da vida dele, que o som tava ruim e a imagem também. Mas o Saramago parece ter gostado muito! Não vejo a hora de ver o filme.
Cara, o livro é muito, mas muito mesmo legal. Quando o li imaginei que daria um puta roteiro para um filme. Passou um tempo e ouvi dizer que estava sendo produzido. Como nunca gostei de nenhum filme baseado em um livro que eu já tenha lido, sabe como é, no livro a gente monta as cenas na nossa cabeça, tentei manter as expectativas baixas para não me frustrar. Pois é, mas o cara teve a manha de fazer o filme. Ficou muito fiel mesmo e muito bem feito. Mas vale a pena ler o livro.
Pois é, todo mundo que conheço que leu o livro diz que é excelente. O Meirelles disse que não é como "Eu sou a lenda". É uma metáfora, o que deve ter sido muito difícil na hora de fazer o filme fiel ao livro. Boto fé que vou ler também! Valeu
Mi vidooooooo!!! Me lo komo me lo komo me lo komo!!! Excelente escritor, he leido varias de sus obras y es de mis escritores favoritos. no he visto la pelicula pero k feliz se puso al verla y k bien se debió sentir al saber k uno de sus libros seria llevado a la pantalla. Mi viddoooo!!!! me lo comoooo!!!
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You'll all hate me for this, but, I can't help wondering whether or not Jose Saramago's reaction was COMPLETELY genuine. Might Saramago, whom I admire more than almost all other other living writers, have been hamming it up a tad for the camera? That I can ask such an awkward question probably says more about me, or maybe more about our times, than it does about Saramago, but, there it is, it's said!
Primeiro de tudo, eu sou mulher e não homem Segundo, não sou patriota,apenas valorizo as coisas legais que meu país oferece, pois ele já é muito massacrado lá fora. Tudo começou com um comentário bem maneiro que fiz, elogiando o Fernando Meirelles e a arte que emana desse país, devido um rico sincretismo de culturas que o Brasil tem. Vocês é que não entenderam o que eu quiz dizer! Sabe pq? Porque são pessoas frustradas...Que moral tem uma pessoa que coloca o "nickname" de maconhadalata?
É essa conversinha que caga com a imagem do Brasil lá fora. Brasileiro tem 1° que sempre se identificar como brasileiro (rídiculo, ninguém faz isso). E sempre tem essa do "ah, my culture is brasilian, it's so rich, my country is the best, bla´, blá, blá" É como os gringo dizem, onde brasileiro fala na internet, estraga. Brasileiro podia ter um pouco mais de senso de rídiculo. Só ia ajudar.
aiai... A verdade é que o brasileiro é o que tem mais preconceito de si mesmo. Nunca vi tanta gente se detestando. E esta história de gringo é formada por nós mesmos, pois todos os que conheci nunca colocaram o fato de eu morar no Brasil como algo negativo. Além do mais, por que não se indentificar como brasileiro? Você tem vergonha por acaso? E quando se conhece pessoas de fora, todo mundo faz isso (sou da Austrália, dos EUA...)
No he visto la película, pero la novela es excepcional! Me hizo soñar con esta espantosa hipótesis de un mundo enfermo de ceguera. Lamentablemente el final me recordó a otra novela, El Perfume. al parecer se apresuró a terminarlo y el que lo haya leído estará de acuerdo conmigo. Lo termina en menos de 2 páginas (no voy a decir el final). Pero Dios mío, Por qué hizo eso? Todo indicaba un terrible final y parece que se cansó de tanta fatalidad y nos regaló un final de telenovela. Un final feliz!
Ensayo sobre la ceguera, fue el primer libro con el que me inicié por la lectura; y saber que todo esa pasión que esbribió José Saramago en esta novela fue puesta en un film me emociona mucho =)
He leído muchos autores, desde el mediocre Paulo Coelho, hasta el interesantísimo Nietzche, pero ningún autor me ha impactado tanto como éste hombre que me impresiona cada vez mpas con cada libro suyo que leo, Lo respeto increíblemente y espero llegar a ser como él algún día ahora que estoy por terminar mi primer novela y empiezo mi carrera como escritor... Espero que la película no decepcione como lo hizo El amor en los tiempos del cólera... hasco!!!
First, you must be an asexual creature, because you have no name (for sitedecinema). Well, know that I am proud of my nationality. It is not the best country in the world to live, but at least in my country does not kill for oil. All sensitivity and talent comes from a mixture of races and cultures. We are creative and director Fernando Meirelles is here to prove. And I'm here to prove that we also take fun of idiots like you, translate it here: VAI TOMAR NO CÚ!
Fernando seems so happy that Saramago, a genius, aprecciate his work.
tricksterhuaun 3 weeks ago
I'm proud to share Portuguese nationality with this man.
wowowi1 8 months ago
I love it, it's like beautiful scene from beautiful film, but it was just real life. Jose makes me feel, my heart is crying, i miss him, i can't forget about that man. And I hate death, because it took Jose, seperate from us who are living, left and what it give us? Just missing and pain how that beautiful person may died , not live forever.
toxycola 8 months ago 2
A good job of a great book, but I think Polanski would have pulled it off better since in terms of theme (paranioa, helplesness) it's right up his alley.
bloodgy1 10 months ago
@bloodgy1 I do not think that Saramago would allow a violator to make a film based on his work.
GilleanFreire 4 months ago
BLINDNESS is a great book. I have yet to watch the movie.
nonfictions 10 months ago
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JoHeartsArt 11 months ago
ES JUSTO COMO LO ESCRIBIO!!! GRANDE SARAMAGO!!!
Antonio0Romero 1 year ago
Both Saramago and Meirelles are brilliant and outstanding artists.
AndreasBlackrose 1 year ago
R.I.P. Saramago...
You may have been a bastard in politics...
But you were simply amazing in literature....you are our hero.....
God Bless You
DEUS TE ABENÇOE VIVA PORTUGAL E VIVA SARAMAGO
microrrufos 1 year ago
That director should stop kissing ass!
CelticReject 1 year ago
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i clap too but for his death
Ricardo27quaresma 1 year ago
@Ricardo27quaresma. May death become you!
stof71 1 year ago
@stof71 we will all die one day,but u will probably go before i do!
Ricardo27quaresma 1 year ago
Amazing man.
jmccee 1 year ago
The president of Portugal did not attend the funeral it was against their literature, It's a shame the president of this country, Saramago as a simple man who had no instruction born in a small village has become a great writer a genius adored by many and hated by non-envious. R.I.P from Portugal
ladyxscorpion 1 year ago
Reading "Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira" will always be an experience that i will never forgett!!!
R.I.P Jose Saramgo....
joanadiasthefirst 1 year ago
"O pior que a morte têm é que antes estavas e agora não estás."
R.I.P Saramago.
joanix3 1 year ago
Saramago will be missed among us all. Not just us, portuguese people, but people all around the world that worship his amazing work. He physically left us but his work will be alive for all the eternity. He is an institution and his books are masterpieces. No one could write like him, our national pride, José Saramago deserves a round of applause due to his performance in life. Because he was a truely treasure that we all cherish.
joanix3 1 year ago 2
precioso!
histar28670 1 year ago
DEP
Calandria2007 1 year ago
Imortals, cant be missed, they are with us allways.
Lancemaker 1 year ago
He supported the cuban revolution until the end
folladordeprostis 1 year ago
God ask for a new strat ... this time it wase a portuguese star .... the only one ,,,, his name Saramago ... R.I.P
TheAbdellaoui 1 year ago
Sob, snif, snif, sob. I will REALLY miss him. I have read all his books (almost) and I also watched the movie. I love him so much! I hope he is in a better place now :-(
irraela 1 year ago
shanna this that 1970's heron flow huh??
postshanna 1 year ago
RIP José Saramago
BigDuda93 1 year ago
A great man, activist, philosopher, writer, gone away. Our world became poor
michmk 1 year ago
the best we can do now is just reflecting about the thoughts this human expressed into paper.
Valete, Fratres
PPinthehouse 1 year ago
A sad day..
RIP José Saramago
muninahlili 1 year ago
RIP Jose Saramago
1922-2010
GEVMM 1 year ago
a real great genius, RIP José!!!!
ilpatafisico 1 year ago
What an engaging and chocking movie it is, with the great actress Julianne Moore, and so many others, and the director Meirelles who totally respected the masterpiece that the fantastic portuguese writer Jose Saramago did. REST IN PEACE =(
VoiceBLUE 1 year ago
R.I.P JOSE SARAMAGO !!! :( Portugal
jonhannescruyff 1 year ago
Grazie,Maestro,per tutto quello che mi hai dato con la tua scrittura,per tutta l'ironia che riversavi nel tuo stile mai banale ma sempre diretto e struggente e per tutte le ore che abbiamo passato insieme perché a leggere un tuo libro mi sentivo di fianco a te. Hai cambiato il mio modo di vedere con il tuo Saggio sulla Cecità e con gli altri tuoi libri mi hai fatto solo emozionare. Con la speranza di poterti rivedere,comunque,un giorno,dovunque tu ora sia,grazie di cuore di tutto.
MrRedrum91 1 year ago
THE BEST movie I have ever seen. It shows how terribly beautiful, and terribly hideous humanity can be. And both exist, living in parallel with each other
mickeymoo26 1 year ago
The book was basically transcribed to the big screen. The directing and photography was pretty neat. All the scene structure made up for the lines and descriptions which couldn't fit in the script. If you ask me I'd say Blindness is a great movie. I mean, it's heavy and stuff, but it's very good.
davidovich00 1 year ago
The book is absolutely brilliant! In many ways, it cannot really be translated to the screen, because the soul of Saramago's writing is in the sparsely punctuated, flowing, compassionate and yet ironic voice of the narrator, which no movie can ever replicate.
vp1981ad 1 year ago
Underrated movie
kondurperusix 1 year ago
Aww, how sweet!
arachniassj 1 year ago
GEEENTE, CHOROU RIOS! aé
johnzevanz 1 year ago
the music from the movie fits very appropriately
parallaxengine 1 year ago
The book and the movie are completely different, but they share some common places. Saramago understood it and loved the movie, well maybe because he's INTELLIGENT!. I say fuck the critics that bashed the movie. Both the movie and the books are great. The ending of the movie is so warm and full of hope.
carmaj156 2 years ago
era giro era fazerem um filme com base no memorial do convento....
inhaca344 2 years ago
What a beautiful moment
avelizosorio 2 years ago
Respect from Serbia!
Patriotis1 2 years ago 2
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Matheusss89 2 years ago 15
He's a great writer and valued - he won the Nobel prize for literature!!
Parlainglese 2 years ago
@Matheusss89 because he is unpatriotic a communist and a iberista that wanted to hand over portugal to spain!..tell me do u think hes wordy of respect?
Ricardo27quaresma 1 year ago
@Ricardo27quaresma E quem patriota, não comunista, não iberista dignificou mais a nossa língua que Saramago?
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i am sorry for you saramago as old as you are you do not know you will soon meet your maker and give account of all the terrible things you have said you will wish to take back those words but it will be too late cant you learn from voltaire who wished ha could turn back things but it was too late for him why not make ammend of your life and dont perish in hell
MegaOladimeji 2 years ago
:D I was worried there. I thought Jose looked really unhappy.
angelawyz99 2 years ago
Me too!!
djonim 2 years ago
What a beautiful reaction of Saramago and the director!!!! I absolutely love it! talks me about the kind of humans beings they are!
aluapmt 2 years ago 8
I haven't had the pleasure to read the book, i guess it is a really good one considering that LatinAmerican literature it is simply one of the best... However, i think the film is good, maybe not my favorite, but i enjoyed so much... it made me think of a lot of things...
aluapmt 2 years ago
José Saramago is a portuguese author, he's not latinoamerican. I've read this book twice, and I've read some of his books. This Man is incredible, his vision of the world is stunning. When I watched the movie the first time, I was happy as I was when I read it the first time. It was... a pleasure..!! =D I recommend it!
djonim 2 years ago 12
Saramago is european, not latinamerican.
carmaj156 2 years ago
@aluapmt I think you mean Lusitanian literature, since he is portuguese and never had anything to do with the entire american continent.
Anarchist48 1 year ago
I am sure I will get some thumbs down due to my comment but honestly I think the movie was not good. But I also need to write that I always though that to make a movie about that book is a huge challenge. It must be like to try to make a movie about Hundred years of solitude.
papeto 2 years ago 2
its a pretty deep movie, and I haven't read the book, but only these guys know what the book is really all about, that's why people like me can't really appreciate it. I tried to like it, but it's not exactly star wars. It doesn't follow the template of the hero's journey or anything like that. so, yeah it's not a good movie if you compare it with the typical arc that hollywood movies have implanted in your soul.
shoegazinglover 2 years ago
First of all don't make comments about my taste in films because you don't know me.
Saramago's book is one of the best in my opinion the movie is not good according to my opinion, and that does not mean that my opinion is the last word, is just my opinion.
Just learn to respect other people opinion. You liked and thats fine, but we all can't think the same way you do
papeto 2 years ago
hey dude, I'm guessing English is not your first language because if you carefully read what I wrote, I never judged your taste. frankly, I don't give a shit about your taste. and on top of that, I didn't like the movie. I hated it. stop being so insecure and thinking that everyone is trying to diss you. relax, you'll live longer.
shoegazinglover 2 years ago
You are right is not my first language.
Same to you, relax, try to enjoy life and respect other people opinions
papeto 2 years ago
Saramago es un Genio
Saramago is a genius
verdi0381 2 years ago
Wow, to get the thumbs up right from the source. And Jose was touched, brought to tears. That's fantastic. Congrats to Fernando for making such a well crafted film adapted from a fantastic book.
pointbreak2k 2 years ago
Saramago, eres lo máximo!!!
MalfLeyva 2 years ago
A small exchange, a timeless bond. Thank you for sharing what can only be described as a "communion of souls", exquisite and rare.
aflowerforSusan 2 years ago 4
I'm confused. At the end of the movie it shows the woman looking into the sky and its white, does this mean she was blind the entire time or that she became blind near the end of the movie, if anyone knows please respond to this. Thank you
KaosTheorm 2 years ago
the blindness is just a metaphore
sepulvedateixeira 2 years ago
a metaphore for the kind of blindness that disables the mind, if I understood correctly. (I had not yet the pleasure of reading the book but I can still kinda guess what that metaphore would be.)
rpaslux 2 years ago
No, she never was blind, she just looked at the sky. In the book is very clear. By the way, its the best book i have ever read. But i havent seen the movie yet.
Santiu1 2 years ago
there was the white sky, she was looking at, but as she rolled down her eyes she could see the buildings. She wasn't blind, and i don't think she turned blind at the end either. Maybe she could only really see when everyone else was blind.
ruukaoz 2 years ago
mmmm (im from peru , sorry) that means she never gona be blind and she never was. For more information you should read the book, is amazing
katemiiii 2 years ago
Read the book
MauriciusPainkiller 2 years ago
Read the book
papeto 2 years ago
that made me cry
fbfiveohv3 2 years ago 4
Adorei o livro, o filme ainda nao vi mas acho muito emocionante o facto de o senhor estar a chorar de alegria. E um orgulho para portugal
ThePaperbagcousins 2 years ago
beautiful
Nefertitimesonrie 2 years ago
wonderfull ^^ he's almost crying of hapiness
flyingtoothpaste 2 years ago
dificilmente de un excelente libro se obtiene una gran pelicula, pero siempre hay casos extraordinarios donde uno puede apreciar ambas obras de tan grandiosa calidad. Felicidades al director por hacer una oba de calidad de una de las mejores novelas contemporaneas.
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si lla los as leido copia y pega esto en 5 videos mas o tu madre morirá en 3 dias, hacedlo por fabor mi a mi amigo le paso, yo lo e hecho pa que no me pase, por fabor acedme caso. esto es una maldicioooooon
mcclane1221 2 years ago
I've never read the book but I did think that the movie was a very good film. Can't wait to buy the thing when I get the chance.
JashinWorshiper 2 years ago 2
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Don't. It's horrible.
AbnormisSapiens 2 years ago
M'he emocionat al veure la reacció del josé saramago. El llibre el vaig trobar extraordinari i la pel·lícula m'ha agradat molt, trobo que està molt ben adaptada!!
krasis85 2 years ago
es genial ver cómo el autor de la novela llora de emoción tras ver su trabajo hecho película...y es increíble descubrir que el lugar en el que mantienen a los ciegos en la película era tal y como me lo había imaginado cuando la leí por primera vez! Es sin duda mi novela favorita, y creo que Meirelles ha hecho una gran película.
arapadasbestas 3 years ago
Very touching. Loved both the book and movie. I don't think that Saramago is luck, the film industry is lucky the nobel prize winner conscented.
blalockkyle 3 years ago 15
Great Moment. I loved the film, the book almost spoiled my sanity...
Barbabapan 3 years ago 3
This portuguese writer Jose Saramago is definitely one of the best wonders of literature and of the world !
Catita3oo9 3 years ago 46
ahhh, if only all writers who've had their works adapted to film felt like this! the world would have many more good films in it right now. Saramago is very, very lucky.
vegantrooper 3 years ago 3
Espero que sea tan buena como el libro. Grande Saramago!! "Dentro de nosotros hay algo que no tiene nombre, esa cosa es lo que somos"
"Inside each of us there´s something with no name, that´s what we are"
sputnik8002 3 years ago 2
Es muy buena la peli
Acertadísima la cita, Sputnik8002.
TrejosEd 3 years ago
WOW...one of the best writers i have ever read, and without doubt, a legend in literature
Violinzak 3 years ago 3
es broma? es una de las peores adaptaciones literarias al cine que he visto en mi vida. Las metáforas se extinguen por completo, la pelicula no muestra nada "entre lineas"..
no puedo creer la reacción de Saramago
cerulio 3 years ago
Exciting.
The greatest living monster of world literature.
Pride of the Portuguese language.
kleberanaisso 3 years ago 4
from PORTUGAL FROM :Azinhaga do ribatejo! tERRA RIBATEJANA QUE CONHECO MT BEM ,FILHO DE GENTES TRABALHADORAS, ONDE O SOL NUNCA PÁRA DE NASCER!
nelsoncsb 3 years ago 2
this movie is awesome, in portuguese tradution:
este filmeeeeeeeeeeee é um espetaculo!
nelsoncsb 3 years ago 2
escritor genial + grande diretor = incrivel filme
vileladan 3 years ago 2
"Ensaio sobre a cegueira" ("Blindness", in the english translation) is the most accurate metaphor on what we've been turning ourselves into. I watched the movie last week, and I must say I didn't know, before that, how it would be possible to make a film that would dignify such a masterpiece. Fernando Meirelles did it the simple way, being faithful to what José Saramago had imagined and creating an extraordinarily adequate visual atmosphere.
Saramago é um grande orgulho para Portugal.
fdvirtudes 3 years ago 3
...y que leere yo cuando este genio nos deje? Supongo que me conformare con releerle una y otra vez...
La de gente que hay en el mundo que no conoce a Saramago: Yo lo he regalado en Irlanda, Alemania, Francia,... y es que es absolutamente universal. Y esas lagrimas, yo si fuera Fernando no me cabria el corazon de orgullo.
iparrajorge 3 years ago
el libro es mil veces mejor
Kivencito 3 years ago
este video esta tremendo!!
nieblanegra 3 years ago
JOSE és um genio!!! (saramago you are a genius!)
etucomisso 3 years ago
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El gorod que está al lado de Saramago, además de ser un pelotudo que habla mientras suena el hermoso sonido del oboe, es un adulador, chupaculos, obsecuente, lisonjero de cuarta.
Saramago, sos un grande.
tuciclotimia 3 years ago
Ese "gordo" es el director de la película, y como no va a hablar si estaba conversando con Saramago?
Ahorrate tus palabras para algo más productivo y no critiques sin saber.
maitenaz 3 years ago 3
damn I want to watch it!!I cant wait!
crom86 3 years ago
i must say that im a little suprize from saramago's reaction...
cock4user 3 years ago 2
life is soo weird, as we aproach an age of matureness like this author we tend to live in the past remembering what has been of our lives.
444papaya444 3 years ago
Excelente novela...
Buena pelicula...
Gran elenco!
Julianne was great!
Gael was great!
Dirección muy buena por parte de Fernando.
good film...
buena pelicula!
mickruiz 3 years ago
Saramago, ¡qué grande eres!
martinezaguado 3 years ago 4
aqele homem q esta ao lado do jose saramago é o produtor??
aivlism 3 years ago
É o realizador, Fernando Meirelles
mikedavid14 3 years ago
se for o produtor
nieblanegra 3 years ago
you sucker, you really can't imagine his feelings, can you?
maybe he was really happy, because if you knew who Jose Saramago is on Portuguese literature you'd STFU.
he's not a J.K. Rolling
Fernandoffl 3 years ago 3
Quien no conoce al Maestro SARAMAGO es un ignorante...
TrejosEd 3 years ago 8
Muy Bien, é bom saber que ainda existe amigos espanhois
Rothghaough 3 years ago
I just loved your sentence, well said thank you
Rothghaough 3 years ago
What a fucking cunt you are... go back to your truck and shut the fuck up.-
motorockstaroficial 3 years ago
At least now we can know that anyone who whines about the adaptation is full of shit if the author likes the movie.
(And as far as I could tell, everyone who has complained has entirely invalid reasons for complaining about the film)
FidelioRoo 3 years ago
i thought he might havent have liked it from his expression in the first 15 seconds, but I guess not. l:C
guitarzer01337 3 years ago
its wonderful how this movie divides opinions XD
danheboy 3 years ago
everyones a f*^%ing critic, but hey most of you wouldn't know good filming and the concept of capturing moments if it hit you upside the head. im glad that people who dont like a movie and PAY to see it never get there money back..so while your crying about a movie that sucked others are laughing all the way to the bank..this movie was epic it was a metaphor of how our society through democracy doesn't work and when carried into blindness it shows how we should avoid it. Helpingeachotheriskey!
onkew594 3 years ago 3
Iunno why ppl don't like the movie. I read the book, loved it, read the movie and also loved it. It shows how terrible humans can be...
Padfoot333 3 years ago 2
I forgive you...
theunsilentrevolutio 3 years ago 3
Não podia me perdoar em português mesmo, hein?!
hhehehehehehehehehehehe
Fica falando dos outros e... faz o mesmo!
: )
raulnepomuceno 3 years ago 2
raulnepomuceno:
Ó meu grande BOI não estava a falar do Saramago e do Meirelles sim do português e do brasileiro que estão a discutir mais abaixo...
theunsilentrevolutio 3 years ago
theunsilentrevolutio:
Peço que me perdoe a estupidez.
raulnepomuceno 3 years ago 4
Incrível...um Português e um Brasileiro a discutirem em inglês acerca de um filme de um realizador brasileiro, baseado num romance de um escritor português, que por sua vez é falado em inglês...
theunsilentrevolutio 3 years ago
Animal...
Eles não estavam conversando em inglês, mas em português! As legendas (subtítulos) que são em inglês!
raulnepomuceno 3 years ago 2
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I already saw the movie, believe me, the story is good but it was badly executed by Fernando Meirelles, many shots are very amateurish.
In the hands of another director, it could have been a great movie.
Saramago deserved better. He's touched because it's his first story adapted to a large screen.
It's the same as when a 3 year old child draws a picture of you, you will still like it.
banido 3 years ago
First: comparing Fernando Meirelles with a 3 year old child is a baaaaad choice of terms.
Second: You talk as if Saramago was naive. OMG, have you read Blindess? Or, at least, have you really seen this movie? We're talking about a great mind here. The person that has wroten such a book - in his own language! - is a person that can separate a good movie about his work from a bad one, ability which you, sadly, lack.
luizmarcco 3 years ago
children are honest. They will not draw how you see it, they will draw how they see it. And that's how movies works, specially when based in a book: an interpretation.
danheboy 3 years ago
Everything people do is, in some manner, to interprete, to read into other people's intentions and or thoughts. Sometimes they get it right and really know it, sometimes they don't and other times they are so full of hot air ( not to say another thing ) they can't ever get right what they ( supposedly ) read. And, before anyone gets what I wrote wrong, I was referring to interpretation in general and not to this movie's interpretation. I have neither seen the movie nor read the novel.
rpaslux 2 years ago
eu li o livro e tornou-se no meu livro preferido, ainda estou a espera de poder ver o filme mas tenho as expectativas no maximo. adorei a cidade de deus e o fiel jardineiro e espero k estes esteja no minimo ao mesmo nivel. Saramago é para mim o melhor escritor da actualidade e basicamente o unico que quando compro um livro sei que o vou começar a ler e conseguir acabar sem me desapontar. o livro nunca perde o ritmo e ha sempre algo novo que nao estamos a espera.
CXpertZ 3 years ago
Se a reação não tivesse sido boa, teriam postado no youtube? Ok Fernando, ganhastes o reconhecimento de quem tu querias.
gabola23 3 years ago
Wow.
This moves me much more than the trailer itself. Now I am definitely going to see it.
lxrlllxf 3 years ago 4
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Saramago is mentally ill ! Only him to invent that dirrrrty story.He's crazy. Meirelles is a very good director.
msbgyn1 3 years ago
Someone REALLY needs some Literature classes...
luizmarcco 3 years ago 2
Jose Saramago is one of the best writers. Ever. And I anxiously await the day that someone makes a film of Baltasar and Blimunda--as long as it's good.
brockwarren 3 years ago 3
Saramao tenía que quemar el cine no ponerse contento que le pasa a José????
elinsurgente 3 years ago
quicotm...como eu gostaria de ter me emocionado como o Saramago se emocionou. Acho que vou ler o livro...
danielsickness 3 years ago 2
Que legal esse video! Nesse exato momento o Meirelles tá dando uma entrevista no Uol. Ele disse que assistir ao filme com o Saramago foi um dos piores momentos da vida dele, que o som tava ruim e a imagem também. Mas o Saramago parece ter gostado muito! Não vejo a hora de ver o filme.
rodrigomarfan 3 years ago 3
Cara, o livro é muito, mas muito mesmo legal. Quando o li imaginei que daria um puta roteiro para um filme. Passou um tempo e ouvi dizer que estava sendo produzido. Como nunca gostei de nenhum filme baseado em um livro que eu já tenha lido, sabe como é, no livro a gente monta as cenas na nossa cabeça, tentei manter as expectativas baixas para não me frustrar. Pois é, mas o cara teve a manha de fazer o filme. Ficou muito fiel mesmo e muito bem feito. Mas vale a pena ler o livro.
kdubrasil 3 years ago 3
Pois é, todo mundo que conheço que leu o livro diz que é excelente. O Meirelles disse que não é como "Eu sou a lenda". É uma metáfora, o que deve ter sido muito difícil na hora de fazer o filme fiel ao livro. Boto fé que vou ler também! Valeu
rodrigomarfan 3 years ago 2
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Se vc tiver estomago, veja. Eu detestei, achei muito pesado, tenebroso, assustador.
msbgyn1 3 years ago
Leia o livro, é muito pior.
luizmarcco 3 years ago 2
Este video es emocionante.
Que fuerte, yo que pensaba que Saramago aceptó dar los derechos de su libro muy a regañadientes...
Hacedme caso, leeros el libro antes de ver Blindness, porque es algo increíble. Sobrepasa todos los límites, sobrepasa a qualquier obra maestra.
Te queremos Saramago.
soichirokun 3 years ago 2
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O José Saramago é português?
Pensava que ele já se tinha naturalizado espanhol...
gonzo2399 3 years ago
Mi vidooooooo!!! Me lo komo me lo komo me lo komo!!! Excelente escritor, he leido varias de sus obras y es de mis escritores favoritos. no he visto la pelicula pero k feliz se puso al verla y k bien se debió sentir al saber k uno de sus libros seria llevado a la pantalla. Mi viddoooo!!!! me lo comoooo!!!
karakolees 3 years ago
Brazilian people are very affective !!!
msbgyn1 3 years ago 3
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You'll all hate me for this, but, I can't help wondering whether or not Jose Saramago's reaction was COMPLETELY genuine. Might Saramago, whom I admire more than almost all other other living writers, have been hamming it up a tad for the camera? That I can ask such an awkward question probably says more about me, or maybe more about our times, than it does about Saramago, but, there it is, it's said!
JerryX68 3 years ago
Or maybe you're completely stupid.
Or totally non-human.
richardrocha 3 years ago 2
Right, that must be it then Richard!
JerryX68 3 years ago
Not at all, I firmly believe it is a fair question!
As we Watchi this yt clip, we're talking about possible pressures, such as Saramago not wanting to make Meirelles look bad.
But then, Saramago cried. And I firmly believe, also, that it wasn't for thinking something like "my work was ruined". =)
Other than that, we won't ever know for sure: we can only control, in a way, how WE see the movie.
luizmarcco 3 years ago
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ui-ui-ui! Brasileiro consegue ser tosco (me incluo nisso, acreditem), hein?
bgsousa 3 years ago
thanks for posting this. beautiful exchange, amazing writer,amazing actors and director. I'm so happy this film was made.
javantonio 3 years ago 9
Excelente escritor y ser humano.
Great writer and human being.
1650million 3 years ago 7
GRANDE JOSE SARAMAGO,GRANDE LIVRO
ONIL80 3 years ago 9
Primeiro de tudo, eu sou mulher e não homem Segundo, não sou patriota,apenas valorizo as coisas legais que meu país oferece, pois ele já é muito massacrado lá fora. Tudo começou com um comentário bem maneiro que fiz, elogiando o Fernando Meirelles e a arte que emana desse país, devido um rico sincretismo de culturas que o Brasil tem. Vocês é que não entenderam o que eu quiz dizer! Sabe pq? Porque são pessoas frustradas...Que moral tem uma pessoa que coloca o "nickname" de maconhadalata?
polaca02 3 years ago 7
É essa conversinha que caga com a imagem do Brasil lá fora. Brasileiro tem 1° que sempre se identificar como brasileiro (rídiculo, ninguém faz isso). E sempre tem essa do "ah, my culture is brasilian, it's so rich, my country is the best, bla´, blá, blá" É como os gringo dizem, onde brasileiro fala na internet, estraga. Brasileiro podia ter um pouco mais de senso de rídiculo. Só ia ajudar.
mfarret 3 years ago 2
aiai... A verdade é que o brasileiro é o que tem mais preconceito de si mesmo. Nunca vi tanta gente se detestando. E esta história de gringo é formada por nós mesmos, pois todos os que conheci nunca colocaram o fato de eu morar no Brasil como algo negativo. Além do mais, por que não se indentificar como brasileiro? Você tem vergonha por acaso? E quando se conhece pessoas de fora, todo mundo faz isso (sou da Austrália, dos EUA...)
eutri 2 years ago 2
No he visto la película, pero la novela es excepcional! Me hizo soñar con esta espantosa hipótesis de un mundo enfermo de ceguera. Lamentablemente el final me recordó a otra novela, El Perfume. al parecer se apresuró a terminarlo y el que lo haya leído estará de acuerdo conmigo. Lo termina en menos de 2 páginas (no voy a decir el final). Pero Dios mío, Por qué hizo eso? Todo indicaba un terrible final y parece que se cansó de tanta fatalidad y nos regaló un final de telenovela. Un final feliz!
PapiRingou 3 years ago 2
Ensayo sobre la ceguera, fue el primer libro con el que me inicié por la lectura; y saber que todo esa pasión que esbribió José Saramago en esta novela fue puesta en un film me emociona mucho =)
ale4540 3 years ago 2
He leído muchos autores, desde el mediocre Paulo Coelho, hasta el interesantísimo Nietzche, pero ningún autor me ha impactado tanto como éste hombre que me impresiona cada vez mpas con cada libro suyo que leo, Lo respeto increíblemente y espero llegar a ser como él algún día ahora que estoy por terminar mi primer novela y empiezo mi carrera como escritor... Espero que la película no decepcione como lo hizo El amor en los tiempos del cólera... hasco!!!
tefpo 3 years ago 2
Comienzas tu Carrera como escritor y no sabes escribir "hasco" pues Asco!! jaja. Broma, suerte con tu novela, che.
albertopaciano111111 3 years ago
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! soy un imbécil.. jajaja... o mejor dicho... un himbécil.... Saludos desde el decadente México brother!!!!
tefpo 3 years ago
José Saramago es el mejor escritor del mundo con vida.
Sin lugar a dudas su obra es de las más exquisitas que existe. Bien ganado el Nobel, maestro.
Espero con ansias el estreno de esta película.
Los saludo desde Bogotá, Colombia.
AlejoCif 3 years ago 7
First, you must be an asexual creature, because you have no name (for sitedecinema). Well, know that I am proud of my nationality. It is not the best country in the world to live, but at least in my country does not kill for oil. All sensitivity and talent comes from a mixture of races and cultures. We are creative and director Fernando Meirelles is here to prove. And I'm here to prove that we also take fun of idiots like you, translate it here: VAI TOMAR NO CÚ!
polaca02 3 years ago
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cu nao e acentuado analfabeto.
maconhadalata 3 years ago
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