This movie is retarded, most of the scenes don't make any sense in the slightest.
I mean think for a moment about the rape scenario. If you heard a request, no a DEMAND from some Puerto Ricon shitpile to rape ya wifes. Would you sit and be all like "Okay"?
Seriously... And this bitch of a main char is even worse. Instead of riling up the crew to castrate these fucks, she literally acts like a pimp and sends the females to be raped.
THEN she realizes "Durr I think I should kill em cuz they bad.
I want to see this movie so badly!!! I didn't go and watch it when it was in cinema, now have to go and lend it from library. I read the book about a year ago and it was something unique... :)
@recklessdreadful My thought was: damn, they should make a movie about this book. Then I looked it up and saw there is one!! It's so awesome because the movie is exactly like how I pictured it would be, except for a couple of things of course ^^
@RKramska WHAT??? Are you serious ? I was about to cry and I felt like my heart was burning during the film and you say it's softer!!!!!...... I haven't read the book .... and after what you said I don't think I can read it ..
this movie totally was a joke. the only person with sight actually bowed down to a blind person. she could have killed any and everyone that stood in her way. i never such that many weak men and i dont believe the weakest of men wouldnt put up a fight.
In the part of the mass rape I believe 90% of men in the world would fight instead of letting their women go. It's really unrealistic how the men said "Well if we still have any moral", when any men in that situation would have chosen to fight. I don't like violence, but look at history, and the human nature, all the wars involved indirectly women, and men would have simply died fighting, as they have been doing since ever. Thumbs down for all of you.
@blood4quinas You are absolutely right. I felt like my heart was burning . How men could give there women up ??? and I like that Asien " Dignity Has No Price " ....... And Yes must of men would die protecting their women ..... and it's ok to violence when it comes to that ....... It's our obligation to protect them.....
i saw this movie, it is amazing how our other senses help us to go along with life itself..though we are not blind in life we are blind with our other senses..the movie was a great message..one way or another, though we cannot fully use our physical abilities, we equalize it somehow by using them as a collab movement..
@alinn71 and i dont think we should be an artists, or a technical personality to analyze this..you can be simply a homemaker or a child,...an ordinary person can change the world...just like in the movie...blindness carries the transparency from other senses..it is incredible how clear you can get..
Think I cried through the whole movie. I agree that parts of it was really hard to watch, especially the rape scene... Still a great movie tough, one of my favourites in fact.
this movie is about the blindness of people all of us whO can t see the media are a joke corporations manipulating us to achieve more proffit we are CATTLE !!
ive seen this movie i think its crazy the lady can see, her husband blind including everyone else in the world n he still cheats on her. shes loves him so much that she continues to care for him.
I'm reading the book, I have a few pages left. After that I'll watch the movie too. As far the book is really hard to read, the scenes are very rough but it's message it's really powerful.
er...we had to read the book for our class, very eye opening but it was also the most gruesome, disgusting, graphic book I've ever read....a book I know I won't ever re-read. I think it can be really hard to understand complex themes like these in a movie, but yeah..after reading the book I don't think I'll ever want to watch this movie.
I'm currently working on an analytical essay about this book... blegh..
@Blacklash2k4 I see a member of the 3rd ward in your response-style. To a sensitive, empathetic person, the suffering around her would be devastating (as depicted in the movie), but I think if she was THAT empathetic, it should have been (at least!) more motivating for her empathy to maintain some civility in her own ward. She was their leader by function, and she (through the author & script writers) dropped the ball. The movie was retarded.
@Pinface34 It is a directing ploy. It is to "sterilize" the world for the audience--give them a sense of blandness. It makes the blood, poop, bruises, suffering stand out more. Here's another you may not have noticed: Chase Scene: If the chased is going to get away, they are moving in the same direction as you read (right). But if they are not--or are struggling to gain ground, they are moving against the way you read (left).
It is the opposite in Sanscript Countries (they read right-to-left).
If, as you all say,she is so depressed that she can't do what she can to alleviate the suffering in her ward alone, then she was a loser. She let everyone be diseased, dying, and raped. This movie would NOT have been tolerated in the PC era (1979-1998). The femi-nazi's and NOW movements would have called this movie "stereo-typing women as something less than "independent" and shows a woman as a weakling. BURN THE MEN WHO MADE THIS MOTION PICTURE!!!!" they would chant as they stormed the studio!"
How hard would have been to gain control of the water in the bathroom? Let the King deal with the desentery, cholera, cramps, dehydration. How hard would it have been for her to gain control of the source pipe for the water? Booby trap it? How much suffering would she have saved that one beaten woman for "not moving...move bitch!" or the others (very demeaning and stereotyping of males in this movie...it promotes the idea that ALL men think out of their dicks...very ugly and insulting to men).
Everyone but her relied on hearing. How mind-fking hard would it have been to deafen the King's losers by banging on the bars and poking a guard (in the thigh, let's say) with a make-shift spear? He would have to rely on the other losers for medical--where their is no medical and a shortage of food. Soon, there would only be the birth-blind man (doubtful, that character was a self-serving as the King), and the King (unless he was killed by the paranoid inmates by then). Stupid movie
If she wasn't wallowing in self-pity and empathy for the other people suffering (as you all have imtimated), she would have realized, "Fear is the King of that building. She was the Empress!"
I can't say for the book (they are often better), but the movie was stupid, stupid, and more stupid.
people were already full of anxiety...trapped in a building full of people with anxiety. She could have exploited that to the max and psychologically mind-fked everyone under the King-of-Third-Ward
Instead, she, being the most capable, lamented in the suffering (ever-increasing) of those around her.
How mind-fking hard would it have been or her to use a range-weapon on the guards of 3rd ward??? They would have turned on him and killed him for her. Fear was king in that building
I don't get the movie. EVERYONE from the characters in the story to the writers/director forgot the saying, "In the World fo the blind, the One-Eyed Man is King."
Instead, some dumb freshly-blind loud-mouth gets to rape, pillage and plunder when she could have picked-off the losers one-by-one--not even killed, but definately maimed.
Again, forgetting another saying, "When you have 'em by the balls, their hearts & minds will soon follow." These freshly-blind...
1 question: why didnt that stupid non-blind bitch not just shank the crazy guy with the gun the first second he tried to impose his little dictatorship??
@shayorshayorshayor Ignorant would mean that I simply lacked the knowledge. How am I being ignorant here? As I have said, starvation affects the mind. Even semi-starvation affects the mind. There are studies on this online.
ok i am going to say it straight up. for starters... no one grew beards or got like sick or anything like that.. if i was the only person who can see, I AM GIFTED! i would get out with my group, and fucking get a van that works. get some living supply. and fucking go find guns. i would be the king. the woman is stupid because she can see and she didnt kill that evil guy in the thing. like there is a big crisis going on but she is too scared to kill? the ppl who response to me are obviusli older
@shayorshayorshayor You're not taking into account how starvation and overcrowding can affect the mind. And just because someone is sighted doesn't mean they're some superbeing capable of anything. How was she going to get a van when they wouldn't even be let out by the military men who were keeping them quarantined? How was she going to get a van when they were free but gas had been used up or there were no keys?
@JerrBear81. i was going to fill up the comment box to reply to you. and i already wrote it, but i just realized your going to be very ignorant seeing all the comment you replied to? i am trying to understand what your trying to say but i am saying stuff againts the film and how unrealistic it is if the scenerio was like that, but you are with it. but w.e
@JerrBear81 Your point has some merit, but there is another saying forgotten/ignored, "Never over-estimate the intelligence of the human-being....and never, ever under-estimate a human-beings cunning!"
This movie (and your valid points) recognize the first half of this movie, but drops the ball on the last half. The "Doctor's wife" (J. Moore), was representing the first of the saying, the "King" was the last half. Ms Moore's character wasn't cunning, and didn't develope cunning.
@capie44 I don't think she was stupid, but I think she couldn't think of solutions right away like most people would be unable to. She had a lot coming at her in the film, especially her feelings of responsibility for the people she felt she had to take care of. Most of which probably suffered some depression from having a sudden disability.
@shayorshayorshayor I agree! Stupid, stupid movie. They forgot the saying, "Necessity is the mother of invention" for even a spear to claim the food instead of being raped.
@capie44 I do not understand you statement, could you please explain with details and my level of understanding. I ashure you that i do agree with your thoughts no matter what you conclusion is towards the movie. I hope we can coagulate in an agreement debate! Thanks.
@shayorshayorshayor I'll try to clarify, your request is too often asked of me IRL. Starvation & overcrowding does effect the mind/psychie, but I think, by the medical and psych condition of J Moore, she was not in starvation mode yet. Just under alot of pre-PTSD caused by the suffering and the King's actions. She did nothing except act as a STNA/CNA to her wards. That was a display of kindness. The wards' population became stupid (she underestimated the intelligence of the population)....
@capie44 ...then when she had had enough, the King underestimated her cunning. She had to resort to serving her survival over intelligence because, too often on all levels of human interaction, "what's in it for me!" or "How can I exploit this situation for the highest chance for my personal survival --and comfort--even though I don't necessarily need to. It's just business, nothing personal, you understand" is the first personal ethic. That being top priority, the King cunningly extorted ....
@capie44 ...the other wards (and his, of course, but that wasn't shown in the movie directly). She tried intelligence and expected intelligence in return, which resulted in stupidity & cunning self-service. The King failed (as most dictators do eventually) to take in the account the cunning of their opponent/opposition. She became cunning (over-coming her own ethics of moral personal standards) and killed the King---FINALLY! taking the immoral out of her society. She was a hero...
@capie44 ...but waaaaaaay too late. She caused those in her society to be exploited, raped, starved, even killed before she over-road her personal ethics. The writers wrote her too late to be realistic in her timing.
The writers made the wrong person the main character.
@capie44 I said the comment, "...mother of invention." Because, she, as the main character carrying the story, didn't come up with non-lethal ideas/ways/plans to terrorize 3rd ward without violating her personal ethics. Had she been the antagonist, she could have gotten away with it by the audience. The writers forgot an awful lot of concepts when making this plot. She acted more like a '60's woman ratherthan a PC-era woman.
@capie44 The car theif should have become the main character AND should have been the King of 3rd Ward. BECAUSE, as pointed out so many here, the movie was making a statement of how society acts with no authority.
JM's character should have been a co-star and antagonist to the Main character. The writers just lost focus between the focus/statement of the movie and the characters delivering that message. They used the wrong character to deliver the message to the audience.
@capie44 In this interpretation/message that is "Blindness," the main character, JM, is telling the audience she is too overwhelmed to come to a decision. She really was bailed out by circumstances (the guards leaving and they being able to leave too) than any active result of her active decision. She was just trying to hang on to her ethics as best she could, which sad to say, were inadequate--her actions were heroic to the small picture, but dwarfed by the big picture throughout the movie.
@shayorshayorshayor Um, thank you. You have been keeping me thinking! Thank You.
The book revolved around the theme: What happens when society has no authority. (If you have read, "The Butterfly Revolution" or "The Lord of the Flies," or "Animal Farm," you will have a point of reference.)
The movie is about The King more. The movies theme is more about The King than about JM's character. She should have been a secondary character. She should have been the antagonist (bad guy) to The King; not the other way around.
Helps?
And "No one is a douche bag who asks to learn." The best teachers learn from their students...even when YOU, shayorshayorshayor, are the teacher.
there is an eye infection that can cause rapid blindness...not too common here in the US. When I had an eye infection the doctor scared me when she told me about it. Any eye infection you have should be treated right away to prevent this from happening.
@whiskeyify My wife, being a doctor, says the same thing. "Eye infections are serious. There are no eye-infections that are not, when left to a layman. Hit the urgent-care or E.R. immediately."
To sum up. The storyline was decent; the book may have been a lot better but I am not going to bother reading it, for fear that it will be as mind fuckingly frusterating to read as the movie was to watch.
To sum up:
The only blind person alive decides to sacrifice her freedom to take care of her blind husband. This part is fine; she seems courageous. WAIT WHY IS SHE LETTING HERSELF GET RAPED BY A SMALL GROUP OF BLIND PEOPLE. OMG SHE'S LETTING OTHERS GET RAPED AS WELL.
@cyclonehunter87 Yeah, you have the story-lines' moral point perfectly except it is "...only sighted person...". Her husband is a Doctor, but doesn't use her to find a cure as she (like those in the Black Plague) was immune to the disease/effects. He doesn't help her either. She was the cure, but the writer killed to birds with one stone; he let the disease kill itself (with equally no explaination), and saved the film budget by not explaining its cure.
I watched the movie, and what you said makes zero sense. Perhaps she reacted differently to the situation in the book than the movie, but she chose to be there taking care of everyone. Her husband cheated on her while she was doing it, and she still stayed.
She "couldn't stand taking care of the group of blind people" so much that when they escaped from the asylum, she continued taking care of a large group of them.
@cyclonehunter87 This movie depicted Julianne's character as a '60's female...stands in the corner screaming/watching the hero getting his azz kicked all the while the hero is screaming at her to "use the crowbar!! Use the crowbar in your hand!!!"
This movie would not have been tolerated in the PC era (1979-1998) when "weakling, emotional, vunerable, helpless depictions of females would have had the femi-nazi's burning the studio and crucifying of cast and crew! (of just the men, of course),
This was an AMAZING movie...it accurately depicts what would happen if such an epidemic were to occur... really shows how animalistic the human race really is...
There are SO many themes in this movie. i'd recommend this for anyone. especially sociologists, psychologists, fuck it everyone
@vVupfunky Correction: If you like AWESOMENESS then this is the movie for you. Haven't seen it yet, but I don't care if it's the worst movie ever made (which I highly doubt as regardless of the screenplay the concept IS good!), the book ammends in every way possible, it is the best I have EVER read. Go read it now!
Nowhere. If ya ain't blind then look at her. Maybe she's 50. Maybe 45. Maybe 60. But she definetly ain't no Angelina-Jolie-character. But since you ARE blind, there's no point in discussing this film with you.
yep. Why would she have to kill the doctor? He doesn't have the gun, he's no threat. Ok, I don't remember what kind of profession the guy with the gun has. Doctor?
@Barbabapan Ah. I am mistaken. I thought you were talking with reference to the crowd of men in the First ward! The blind man who uses the gun in the end to hurt several people is dubbed simply as the Blind clerk, for having been blind for many years before the outbreak of the white evil he knows how to write brail, and so proves to be an important asset for the pirate/thug who starts all of this gratuitous, and very blind conflict (in more ways than one!) She wouldn't have to kill the doctor xD
@cyclonehunter87 it's not easy for everyone to get that but sometimes knowing and "seeing" more and deeper that others could be so painful that u just want to be "blind' like others
@cyclonehunter87 Seeing allows for more information. To a sensitive, empathetic person, the suffering around her would be devastating (as depicted in the movie), but I think if she was THAT empathetic, it should have been (at least!) more motivating for her empathy to maintain some civility in her own ward. She was their leader by function, and she (through the script writers) dropped the ball.
The movie needed a strong female lead but they wrote a weak character who has the power to stop atrocities but makes no action to do so. Lot of holes in this one.
So, a blind person also loses muscular powers and stuff? An older, not very strong lady has the power to stop blind men from raping? You're laughing yourself now, aren't you?
You think you just got me dont you? She had all the power, in the world of the blind you moron. He was shooting wildly because he couldnt see and she just sidestepped, its not hard to do. And then when she finally does kill him, after allowing the women to be raped (herself inculded very weird) and 1 killed, he has no idea shes about to stab him until hes been stabbed. Why you ask? Because hes BLIND.
How does not-being-blind give you "all the power in the world"? Just sidestepped... NOW you're laughing, right? Sure, she also has all the space in the world to sidestep a dozen enraged men. And no, I don't think "I got you", I just think you should use your brain more effectively.
I meant: "Sure, she also has all the space in the world to sidestep a dozen enraged men, especially in a confined, overcrowded sanatarium with narrow corridors and trigger happy soldiers guarding it."
Maybe "I got you", but you're the kind who'd never admit it. So, keep playing dumb, I've had my coffee break now.
If you cant understand the advantages that having sight in the world of the blind would give you, than you are more inept and incompetant than julainne moore in blindness.
What a simple concept.
Person A can see
Person B cannot
Person B cant even be sure that theyre wiping their asses with toilet paper, how the fuck dont you understand that she had all the power? God youre dumb.
0/10 movie, would go blind again.
Swagg0tOverlaod 1 week ago
This movie is retarded, most of the scenes don't make any sense in the slightest.
I mean think for a moment about the rape scenario. If you heard a request, no a DEMAND from some Puerto Ricon shitpile to rape ya wifes. Would you sit and be all like "Okay"?
Seriously... And this bitch of a main char is even worse. Instead of riling up the crew to castrate these fucks, she literally acts like a pimp and sends the females to be raped.
THEN she realizes "Durr I think I should kill em cuz they bad.
Swagg0tOverlaod 1 week ago
@Swagg0tOverlaod maybe she wanted to get rape?
freest2dogg 6 days ago
Read the book...dont watch the movie
vVmarianoSv 2 weeks ago
This is based on the book? There isn't enough shit, vomit or flies.
MrAlienalda 3 weeks ago
MAIN PLOT: Everyone is blind but Julianne Moore
END OF FILM: Everyone regains their sight, Julianne Moore is outside by herself shocked to discover shes blind.
bradley583 4 weeks ago
@bradley583 thanks man, i wont waste my life watching it!
josh1gdc1 3 weeks ago
José Saramago: Ensayo sobre la ceguera.
avantigang 1 month ago
must watch movie for now ...
farazazhar1 1 month ago
This movie is shitty
shoshoo100 1 month ago
I seriously thought I was blind after I watched this movie!
4everyoung2298 1 month ago 2
I'm reading the comments and thinking how can some people be so ignorant? the movie is incredibly powerful
wiiDd91 1 month ago 4
Great movie and acting
lolawaldo 1 month ago
this film was shit
wissamgharib 2 months ago
@wissamgharib agreed!
shoshoo100 1 month ago
this movie is plain
psychodrumplayer14 2 months ago
After watching this movie I thought to myself "Wait, I can see? I'm blind though." it freaked me out, it felt weird to see things! D:
AnnerzInSpace 2 months ago
it seems people really think blindness is contagious. :(
blacksheepgirl 3 months ago
Portugal is the best
rnevex 3 months ago
"The only thing more terrifying than blindness, is being the only one who can see."
m4yflower 3 months ago 2
I want to see this movie so badly!!! I didn't go and watch it when it was in cinema, now have to go and lend it from library. I read the book about a year ago and it was something unique... :)
m4yflower 3 months ago
@m4yflower Don't watch the movie it's shit.
shoshoo100 1 month ago
@shoshoo100 Well, that's your opinion. ;) Of course the book is like million times better than the movie but I liked the movie anyway. :)
m4yflower 1 month ago
I read the book, had no idea there was a movie :O
recklessdreadful 3 months ago
@recklessdreadful My thought was: damn, they should make a movie about this book. Then I looked it up and saw there is one!! It's so awesome because the movie is exactly like how I pictured it would be, except for a couple of things of course ^^
FretFreak02 3 months ago
I dont understand the movie...
Shameonyou6 4 months ago
@Shameonyou6 You nearly got me there haha
Cwervy 3 months ago
@Shameonyou6 The movie is about how aweful we human are
shalawsorchi 2 months ago
how similar is the movie to the book?
runtothehills29 4 months ago
@runtothehills29 somewhat similar, the movie is slightly softer than the book. i enjoyed both :)
RKramska 4 months ago
@RKramska WHAT??? Are you serious ? I was about to cry and I felt like my heart was burning during the film and you say it's softer!!!!!...... I haven't read the book .... and after what you said I don't think I can read it ..
ahmed2egypt 4 months ago
this movie totally was a joke. the only person with sight actually bowed down to a blind person. she could have killed any and everyone that stood in her way. i never such that many weak men and i dont believe the weakest of men wouldnt put up a fight.
MrPhillyrick1 4 months ago
@MrPhillyrick1 Believe it or not, "in real life" most people don't simply go around killing others.
inextinguishable00 4 months ago 2
I just got finish watching dis n oh my it was just horrific
BoombangRebirth 4 months ago
I could't see a thing,
GTASADUDE 5 months ago
this is one of the best movies i ever saw...it has a real effect on you afterwards and makes you think differently. i reccomend all to watch
imfake2011 5 months ago
I'm gonna watch that movie on my TV in 2 and a half hours! :D
SuperSkyler04 5 months ago
i canntnt read but i cant type omgomgomg
JaredvaldezTV 5 months ago
In the part of the mass rape I believe 90% of men in the world would fight instead of letting their women go. It's really unrealistic how the men said "Well if we still have any moral", when any men in that situation would have chosen to fight. I don't like violence, but look at history, and the human nature, all the wars involved indirectly women, and men would have simply died fighting, as they have been doing since ever. Thumbs down for all of you.
blood4quinas 5 months ago 14
@blood4quinas You are absolutely right. I felt like my heart was burning . How men could give there women up ??? and I like that Asien " Dignity Has No Price " ....... And Yes must of men would die protecting their women ..... and it's ok to violence when it comes to that ....... It's our obligation to protect them.....
ahmed2egypt 4 months ago
@blood4quinas
oh don't be such a hero...
this movie isn't like"why didnt they do that"...cause that's not the point of the movie to be realistic. It's more symbolistic.
wiiDd91 1 month ago
@blood4quinas you're blind too
wowowi1 3 weeks ago
DAYUM! My mom told me I born blind, but I've just raced cars last week! I didn't know!
Kamaratzz 5 months ago
the book was ssssooooooooooo much better , I recommend it
nanouka93 5 months ago
I like everything is in a white tint. Like, people think when someone is blind, all they see is black. But what if it was white.
marcster1994 5 months ago
the book rocks
ImaruSama 6 months ago
julianne moore is a hot MILF
folladordeprostis 6 months ago 12
@folladordeprostis LOL
CREAMAlG 2 months ago
@CREAMAlG why????
folladordeprostis 2 months ago
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CREAMAlG 2 months ago
The 'king' ...I'm not gonna say it.
RawheadRex72 6 months ago
Este filme é muito bom, e me ajudou muito com um trabalho de escola!
Ric7rdo 6 months ago
It was stutarded
Mintylunatic 6 months ago
dont ever fuckin watch this movie. id rather watch flies fucking or paint dry.
JetiFIN 6 months ago
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RawheadRex72 6 months ago
i saw this movie, it is amazing how our other senses help us to go along with life itself..though we are not blind in life we are blind with our other senses..the movie was a great message..one way or another, though we cannot fully use our physical abilities, we equalize it somehow by using them as a collab movement..
alinn71 6 months ago
@alinn71 and i dont think we should be an artists, or a technical personality to analyze this..you can be simply a homemaker or a child,...an ordinary person can change the world...just like in the movie...blindness carries the transparency from other senses..it is incredible how clear you can get..
alinn71 6 months ago
Think I cried through the whole movie. I agree that parts of it was really hard to watch, especially the rape scene... Still a great movie tough, one of my favourites in fact.
Hjortesalt 7 months ago
this movie is really scary to me cause im very nearsighted.
Nikkita178 7 months ago
@Nikkita178 heheheh ..... Ya me too .......... but after I watched it I said ok I am nearsighted but It still a great gift
ahmed2egypt 4 months ago
Jose Saramago is the best writer
slb1904ful 7 months ago
heard this is graphic. had my dad rent it for me tonight....hope he does want to watch it with me.
MrDustinBurch 7 months ago
OMG, such an amazing movie!!! I just cried by the end, when the Japanese guy started to see, that was just.... stunning
DannyLaToR 7 months ago
The only thing worst than blindness, is being the only one who can see... that just sent endless chills down my whole body
IamTheScorchedEarth 7 months ago
this movie is about the blindness of people all of us whO can t see the media are a joke corporations manipulating us to achieve more proffit we are CATTLE !!
WAKE UP !!!
ricardodegilmonde 7 months ago 3
Well the movie is really great , better than the book, you should watch it.
FuSi0N91 8 months ago
ive seen this movie i think its crazy the lady can see, her husband blind including everyone else in the world n he still cheats on her. shes loves him so much that she continues to care for him.
purpleheart300 8 months ago
I'm reading the book, I have a few pages left. After that I'll watch the movie too. As far the book is really hard to read, the scenes are very rough but it's message it's really powerful.
TheGirlOfTomorrow 8 months ago 3
Watched it on TV last night here in NZ, man it's messed up! Good movie though
XBassxRockerX 8 months ago
this movie is just about to play on tv here in nz, thought ild check up on some reviews to see if its any good to watch lol
PIGGKILLA 8 months ago
@PIGGKILLA haha i watched it last night :s
eminemrocksyo 8 months ago
er...we had to read the book for our class, very eye opening but it was also the most gruesome, disgusting, graphic book I've ever read....a book I know I won't ever re-read. I think it can be really hard to understand complex themes like these in a movie, but yeah..after reading the book I don't think I'll ever want to watch this movie.
I'm currently working on an analytical essay about this book... blegh..
amorekristall 8 months ago
In the blinded lands, Boaz is king.
gliddyg 9 months ago
Is the movie good, dont know if I should watch it
GABDILIVE 9 months ago
@GABDILIVE I don't know about the movie, but I just finished reading the book and it is AMAZING. Its depressing though.
Choen444 8 months ago
this movie caused me to go temporarily blind.Or maybe my eyes were shut because I fell asleep,one or the other
psychobdevl 9 months ago
Did any one else notice a very disproportionate number of whites in this "fallen society" movie?
What would the movie have felt if their were a higher number of Blacks?
..of Indians
...of Hispanics
...of Asians?
I bet it was easier to imagine/predict when you asked the question with Asiansthan the other races.
How would the Eastern Indians be in this movie?
...or Middle Eastern Terrorists. :-P
capie44 10 months ago
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@Blacklash2k4 I see a member of the 3rd ward in your response-style. To a sensitive, empathetic person, the suffering around her would be devastating (as depicted in the movie), but I think if she was THAT empathetic, it should have been (at least!) more motivating for her empathy to maintain some civility in her own ward. She was their leader by function, and she (through the author & script writers) dropped the ball. The movie was retarded.
capie44 10 months ago
@Pinface34 It is a directing ploy. It is to "sterilize" the world for the audience--give them a sense of blandness. It makes the blood, poop, bruises, suffering stand out more. Here's another you may not have noticed: Chase Scene: If the chased is going to get away, they are moving in the same direction as you read (right). But if they are not--or are struggling to gain ground, they are moving against the way you read (left).
It is the opposite in Sanscript Countries (they read right-to-left).
capie44 10 months ago
If, as you all say,she is so depressed that she can't do what she can to alleviate the suffering in her ward alone, then she was a loser. She let everyone be diseased, dying, and raped. This movie would NOT have been tolerated in the PC era (1979-1998). The femi-nazi's and NOW movements would have called this movie "stereo-typing women as something less than "independent" and shows a woman as a weakling. BURN THE MEN WHO MADE THIS MOTION PICTURE!!!!" they would chant as they stormed the studio!"
capie44 10 months ago
How hard would have been to gain control of the water in the bathroom? Let the King deal with the desentery, cholera, cramps, dehydration. How hard would it have been for her to gain control of the source pipe for the water? Booby trap it? How much suffering would she have saved that one beaten woman for "not moving...move bitch!" or the others (very demeaning and stereotyping of males in this movie...it promotes the idea that ALL men think out of their dicks...very ugly and insulting to men).
capie44 10 months ago
Everyone but her relied on hearing. How mind-fking hard would it have been to deafen the King's losers by banging on the bars and poking a guard (in the thigh, let's say) with a make-shift spear? He would have to rely on the other losers for medical--where their is no medical and a shortage of food. Soon, there would only be the birth-blind man (doubtful, that character was a self-serving as the King), and the King (unless he was killed by the paranoid inmates by then). Stupid movie
capie44 10 months ago
If she wasn't wallowing in self-pity and empathy for the other people suffering (as you all have imtimated), she would have realized, "Fear is the King of that building. She was the Empress!"
I can't say for the book (they are often better), but the movie was stupid, stupid, and more stupid.
capie44 10 months ago
people were already full of anxiety...trapped in a building full of people with anxiety. She could have exploited that to the max and psychologically mind-fked everyone under the King-of-Third-Ward
Instead, she, being the most capable, lamented in the suffering (ever-increasing) of those around her.
How mind-fking hard would it have been or her to use a range-weapon on the guards of 3rd ward??? They would have turned on him and killed him for her. Fear was king in that building
I don't get it
capie44 10 months ago
I don't get the movie. EVERYONE from the characters in the story to the writers/director forgot the saying, "In the World fo the blind, the One-Eyed Man is King."
Instead, some dumb freshly-blind loud-mouth gets to rape, pillage and plunder when she could have picked-off the losers one-by-one--not even killed, but definately maimed.
Again, forgetting another saying, "When you have 'em by the balls, their hearts & minds will soon follow." These freshly-blind...
capie44 10 months ago
Very good movie. Watched it several times. Very intriguing. Says a lot about society. What happens when there are no rules?
hemmojito 10 months ago
So why is Christina Yang is this one?
martijndude92 11 months ago
@martijndude92 haha wrong set she thought it was grey's anatomy
admarie82 10 months ago
Julian is the hottest ugly women in the world
DEATHGOD198255 11 months ago
the movie was pretty hard to watch
7thBOSS 11 months ago 46
@7thBOSS why?
SuperColossal33 10 months ago
@7thBOSS why ? :)
Seyma93 7 months ago
my brother is in that movie
kk1188kk1234 11 months ago
@kk1188kk1234 the blind guy looks like springsteen haha
TheUltimatePerformer 11 months ago
@TheUltimatePerformer lool my bro is the little boy...
kk1188kk1234 11 months ago
1 question: why didnt that stupid non-blind bitch not just shank the crazy guy with the gun the first second he tried to impose his little dictatorship??
sgtsnakeeyes11 1 year ago
thumbs up that Yursuke igesu was the best in this movie if you do not know who this is he is first man to go blind
Funkyduckz 1 year ago
CORRECTION:
The only thing more terrifying than blindness is FEELING THE WRATH OF THE ALMIGHTY ALL POWERFUL OMNIPRESENT SUPREME SPIRIT come the day.
Fear God creatures of the dusk... Fear Allah
livedbackwardsisu 1 year ago
if you pause the video at 0:42 and 0:57 all becomes clear to those who can see and are not afraid.
gobluesgogo 1 year ago
since i like movies wich deal with all kinds of apocalypse,like the road and 28 days later,this movie was entertaining lol
semanray 1 year ago 2
shitty fucking waste ov time ,kept waiting for something to happen then it just ended
dangerousneptune 1 year ago
I read the novel this movie is based off of. I have not seen the movie though.
Soosanness 1 year ago
i remember watching this in theaters but i cant recall it coming out on dvd.
third3ye024 1 year ago
Best movie
mickeymoo26 1 year ago 3
this movie was AWFUL
ihazachi 1 year ago
@ihazachi a for real? damn!
xMizzDollFacex 1 year ago
@xMizzDollFacex yeah the acting is SHIT and there is like, no plot.
ihazachi 1 year ago
@ihazachi I agree!
capie44 10 months ago
@shayorshayorshayor Ignorant would mean that I simply lacked the knowledge. How am I being ignorant here? As I have said, starvation affects the mind. Even semi-starvation affects the mind. There are studies on this online.
JerrBear81 1 year ago
thumbs up if you counted the bullets of the gun while watching the whole movie?
shayorshayorshayor 1 year ago
ok i am going to say it straight up. for starters... no one grew beards or got like sick or anything like that.. if i was the only person who can see, I AM GIFTED! i would get out with my group, and fucking get a van that works. get some living supply. and fucking go find guns. i would be the king. the woman is stupid because she can see and she didnt kill that evil guy in the thing. like there is a big crisis going on but she is too scared to kill? the ppl who response to me are obviusli older
shayorshayorshayor 1 year ago 2
@shayorshayorshayor You're not taking into account how starvation and overcrowding can affect the mind. And just because someone is sighted doesn't mean they're some superbeing capable of anything. How was she going to get a van when they wouldn't even be let out by the military men who were keeping them quarantined? How was she going to get a van when they were free but gas had been used up or there were no keys?
JerrBear81 1 year ago
@JerrBear81. i was going to fill up the comment box to reply to you. and i already wrote it, but i just realized your going to be very ignorant seeing all the comment you replied to? i am trying to understand what your trying to say but i am saying stuff againts the film and how unrealistic it is if the scenerio was like that, but you are with it. but w.e
shayorshayorshayor 1 year ago
@JerrBear81 Your point has some merit, but there is another saying forgotten/ignored, "Never over-estimate the intelligence of the human-being....and never, ever under-estimate a human-beings cunning!"
This movie (and your valid points) recognize the first half of this movie, but drops the ball on the last half. The "Doctor's wife" (J. Moore), was representing the first of the saying, the "King" was the last half. Ms Moore's character wasn't cunning, and didn't develope cunning.
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 I don't think she was stupid, but I think she couldn't think of solutions right away like most people would be unable to. She had a lot coming at her in the film, especially her feelings of responsibility for the people she felt she had to take care of. Most of which probably suffered some depression from having a sudden disability.
JerrBear81 10 months ago
@shayorshayorshayor I agree! Stupid, stupid movie. They forgot the saying, "Necessity is the mother of invention" for even a spear to claim the food instead of being raped.
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 I do not understand you statement, could you please explain with details and my level of understanding. I ashure you that i do agree with your thoughts no matter what you conclusion is towards the movie. I hope we can coagulate in an agreement debate! Thanks.
shayorshayorshayor 10 months ago
@shayorshayorshayor I'll try to clarify, your request is too often asked of me IRL. Starvation & overcrowding does effect the mind/psychie, but I think, by the medical and psych condition of J Moore, she was not in starvation mode yet. Just under alot of pre-PTSD caused by the suffering and the King's actions. She did nothing except act as a STNA/CNA to her wards. That was a display of kindness. The wards' population became stupid (she underestimated the intelligence of the population)....
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 ...then when she had had enough, the King underestimated her cunning. She had to resort to serving her survival over intelligence because, too often on all levels of human interaction, "what's in it for me!" or "How can I exploit this situation for the highest chance for my personal survival --and comfort--even though I don't necessarily need to. It's just business, nothing personal, you understand" is the first personal ethic. That being top priority, the King cunningly extorted ....
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 ...the other wards (and his, of course, but that wasn't shown in the movie directly). She tried intelligence and expected intelligence in return, which resulted in stupidity & cunning self-service. The King failed (as most dictators do eventually) to take in the account the cunning of their opponent/opposition. She became cunning (over-coming her own ethics of moral personal standards) and killed the King---FINALLY! taking the immoral out of her society. She was a hero...
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 ...but waaaaaaay too late. She caused those in her society to be exploited, raped, starved, even killed before she over-road her personal ethics. The writers wrote her too late to be realistic in her timing.
The writers made the wrong person the main character.
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 I said the comment, "...mother of invention." Because, she, as the main character carrying the story, didn't come up with non-lethal ideas/ways/plans to terrorize 3rd ward without violating her personal ethics. Had she been the antagonist, she could have gotten away with it by the audience. The writers forgot an awful lot of concepts when making this plot. She acted more like a '60's woman ratherthan a PC-era woman.
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 The car theif should have become the main character AND should have been the King of 3rd Ward. BECAUSE, as pointed out so many here, the movie was making a statement of how society acts with no authority.
JM's character should have been a co-star and antagonist to the Main character. The writers just lost focus between the focus/statement of the movie and the characters delivering that message. They used the wrong character to deliver the message to the audience.
capie44 10 months ago
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capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 In this interpretation/message that is "Blindness," the main character, JM, is telling the audience she is too overwhelmed to come to a decision. She really was bailed out by circumstances (the guards leaving and they being able to leave too) than any active result of her active decision. She was just trying to hang on to her ethics as best she could, which sad to say, were inadequate--her actions were heroic to the small picture, but dwarfed by the big picture throughout the movie.
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 yo dogg, i didnt get jack shit what you just said.
shayorshayorshayor 10 months ago
@shayorshayorshayor The writers didn't write the movie with reality in mind.
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 I applaude you for your tolerance, of myself being a douche bag.
shayorshayorshayor 10 months ago
@shayorshayorshayor Um, thank you. You have been keeping me thinking! Thank You.
The book revolved around the theme: What happens when society has no authority. (If you have read, "The Butterfly Revolution" or "The Lord of the Flies," or "Animal Farm," you will have a point of reference.)
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 The movie revolved around Julianne Moore's character. She symbolizes civlility in the movie.
She is promoting civilization and ad hoc authority in a vacuum of authority.
The movie revolves around her.
The King of Ward 3 is the symbol of chaos in society.
He symbolizes what society will do.
capie44 10 months ago
@capie44 The movie is about what society will do.
The movie is about The King more. The movies theme is more about The King than about JM's character. She should have been a secondary character. She should have been the antagonist (bad guy) to The King; not the other way around.
Helps?
And "No one is a douche bag who asks to learn." The best teachers learn from their students...even when YOU, shayorshayorshayor, are the teacher.
capie44 10 months ago
great book from Saramago .
great movie from Meirelles :]
CandyLivi 1 year ago 4
there is an eye infection that can cause rapid blindness...not too common here in the US. When I had an eye infection the doctor scared me when she told me about it. Any eye infection you have should be treated right away to prevent this from happening.
whiskeyify 1 year ago
@whiskeyify My wife, being a doctor, says the same thing. "Eye infections are serious. There are no eye-infections that are not, when left to a layman. Hit the urgent-care or E.R. immediately."
capie44 10 months ago
To sum up. The storyline was decent; the book may have been a lot better but I am not going to bother reading it, for fear that it will be as mind fuckingly frusterating to read as the movie was to watch.
To sum up:
The only blind person alive decides to sacrifice her freedom to take care of her blind husband. This part is fine; she seems courageous. WAIT WHY IS SHE LETTING HERSELF GET RAPED BY A SMALL GROUP OF BLIND PEOPLE. OMG SHE'S LETTING OTHERS GET RAPED AS WELL.
cyclonehunter87 1 year ago
@cyclonehunter87 Starvation. Starvation makes people do things they'd never do if they had food.
JerrBear81 1 year ago
@cyclonehunter87 Yeah, you have the story-lines' moral point perfectly.
capie44 10 months ago
@cyclonehunter87 Yeah, you have the story-lines' moral point perfectly except it is "...only sighted person...". Her husband is a Doctor, but doesn't use her to find a cure as she (like those in the Black Plague) was immune to the disease/effects. He doesn't help her either. She was the cure, but the writer killed to birds with one stone; he let the disease kill itself (with equally no explaination), and saved the film budget by not explaining its cure.
capie44 10 months ago
@Blacklash2k4
I watched the movie, and what you said makes zero sense. Perhaps she reacted differently to the situation in the book than the movie, but she chose to be there taking care of everyone. Her husband cheated on her while she was doing it, and she still stayed.
She "couldn't stand taking care of the group of blind people" so much that when they escaped from the asylum, she continued taking care of a large group of them.
cyclonehunter87 1 year ago
@cyclonehunter87 This movie depicted Julianne's character as a '60's female...stands in the corner screaming/watching the hero getting his azz kicked all the while the hero is screaming at her to "use the crowbar!! Use the crowbar in your hand!!!"
This movie would not have been tolerated in the PC era (1979-1998) when "weakling, emotional, vunerable, helpless depictions of females would have had the femi-nazi's burning the studio and crucifying of cast and crew! (of just the men, of course),
capie44 10 months ago
This was an AMAZING movie...it accurately depicts what would happen if such an epidemic were to occur... really shows how animalistic the human race really is...
There are SO many themes in this movie. i'd recommend this for anyone. especially sociologists, psychologists, fuck it everyone
iig0tem 1 year ago 3
@Pinface34 Read the book.
JBiscaia33 1 year ago
00:05 - 00:08
"SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!"
I hate alarm clocks, lol.
ProtectorProductions 1 year ago
my favorite movie
randomsnapple 1 year ago
Reminds me of Day of the Triffids.
cybersphere 1 year ago
Great Concept, Could have been better.......
baldblackman06 1 year ago
beautiful film... beautiful novel... big Saramago!
ursulamaranta 1 year ago
this moviee was soo efin bad .. i freakin watched the whole thing and i was like who the hell invented this shit?
yelie1 1 year ago
@yelie1 read the book
Esperu2008 1 year ago
@yelie1 agreed
capie44 10 months ago
@vVupfunky Correction: If you like AWESOMENESS then this is the movie for you. Haven't seen it yet, but I don't care if it's the worst movie ever made (which I highly doubt as regardless of the screenplay the concept IS good!), the book ammends in every way possible, it is the best I have EVER read. Go read it now!
tarkinfish 1 year ago
So. Person A can see. Person A is a 55 years old woman.
Person B doesn't exist, it's a CROWD of men.
Get real.
Barbabapan 1 year ago
@Barbabapan
Where in the movie did it say that the character was 55 years old?
cyclonehunter87 1 year ago
@cyclonehunter87
Nowhere. If ya ain't blind then look at her. Maybe she's 50. Maybe 45. Maybe 60. But she definetly ain't no Angelina-Jolie-character. But since you ARE blind, there's no point in discussing this film with you.
Barbabapan 1 year ago
@Barbabapan Person A? I believe you mean the Doctor's Wife, owner of the Dog of Tears.
tarkinfish 1 year ago
@tarkinfish
exactly
Barbabapan 1 year ago
@tarkinfish
Probably. Was referring to the other guy goin' Person A and B and stuff.
Barbabapan 1 year ago
@Barbabapan Hmmm... Person B would be the Doctor really, not any crowd of men. Are you talking about the group from the first ward?
tarkinfish 1 year ago
@tarkinfish
yep. Why would she have to kill the doctor? He doesn't have the gun, he's no threat. Ok, I don't remember what kind of profession the guy with the gun has. Doctor?
Barbabapan 1 year ago
@Barbabapan Ah. I am mistaken. I thought you were talking with reference to the crowd of men in the First ward! The blind man who uses the gun in the end to hurt several people is dubbed simply as the Blind clerk, for having been blind for many years before the outbreak of the white evil he knows how to write brail, and so proves to be an important asset for the pirate/thug who starts all of this gratuitous, and very blind conflict (in more ways than one!) She wouldn't have to kill the doctor xD
tarkinfish 1 year ago
How is being the only one that can see worse than being blind? How fucking retarded.
cyclonehunter87 1 year ago 13
@cyclonehunter87
lol
jesscutiehott 1 year ago
@cyclonehunter87 Agreed!
baldblackman06 1 year ago
@cyclonehunter87 it's not easy for everyone to get that but sometimes knowing and "seeing" more and deeper that others could be so painful that u just want to be "blind' like others
Esperu2008 1 year ago 4
@cyclonehunter87 not enough seeing-eye dogs for everyone maybe
HeWhoChills 11 months ago
@cyclonehunter87 Because she could see what blindness did to them, and what they did to each other. Read the book.
XxXLadyDarkXx 10 months ago
@cyclonehunter87 because you can see everyone else's struggle, but you can't do anything about it.
tiaraajackson 10 months ago 21
@cyclonehunter87 If you read the book it's actually terrible if you can see, I'd wish to be blind as well if I were here.
seabury 10 months ago
@cyclonehunter87 Seeing allows for more information. To a sensitive, empathetic person, the suffering around her would be devastating (as depicted in the movie), but I think if she was THAT empathetic, it should have been (at least!) more motivating for her empathy to maintain some civility in her own ward. She was their leader by function, and she (through the script writers) dropped the ball.
capie44 10 months ago
The book was better.
sonatakrump 1 year ago
horseshit movie.
The movie needed a strong female lead but they wrote a weak character who has the power to stop atrocities but makes no action to do so. Lot of holes in this one.
jesscutiehott 1 year ago
@jesscutiehott
So, a blind person also loses muscular powers and stuff? An older, not very strong lady has the power to stop blind men from raping? You're laughing yourself now, aren't you?
Barbabapan 1 year ago
@Barbabapan
You think you just got me dont you? She had all the power, in the world of the blind you moron. He was shooting wildly because he couldnt see and she just sidestepped, its not hard to do. And then when she finally does kill him, after allowing the women to be raped (herself inculded very weird) and 1 killed, he has no idea shes about to stab him until hes been stabbed. Why you ask? Because hes BLIND.
jesscutiehott 1 year ago
@jesscutiehott
How does not-being-blind give you "all the power in the world"? Just sidestepped... NOW you're laughing, right? Sure, she also has all the space in the world to sidestep a dozen enraged men. And no, I don't think "I got you", I just think you should use your brain more effectively.
Barbabapan 1 year ago
@jesscutiehott
I meant: "Sure, she also has all the space in the world to sidestep a dozen enraged men, especially in a confined, overcrowded sanatarium with narrow corridors and trigger happy soldiers guarding it."
Maybe "I got you", but you're the kind who'd never admit it. So, keep playing dumb, I've had my coffee break now.
Barbabapan 1 year ago
@Barbabapan
If you cant understand the advantages that having sight in the world of the blind would give you, than you are more inept and incompetant than julainne moore in blindness.
What a simple concept.
Person A can see
Person B cannot
Person B cant even be sure that theyre wiping their asses with toilet paper, how the fuck dont you understand that she had all the power? God youre dumb.
jesscutiehott 1 year ago 2