looks dope...director of City of Gods did this

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/

9/18/2008 10:35:32 PM

wait... its 2008? fuck time flies


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9/18/2008 10:43:28 PM

is this based on the Sarimago (sp?) novel??

sorry, didn't click

9/18/2008 11:13:24 PM

yes

9/18/2008 11:14:02 PM

will watch!

9/18/2008 11:18:47 PM

Saramago

and Galaxy should be getting it

[Edited on September 18, 2008 at 11:21 PM. Reason : good book, hopefully the movie will also be good]

9/18/2008 11:20:57 PM

i'm not aware of the book, but I did see City of Gods and its a great movie...its about street kids in Brazil...one kid is a photographer...great movie i dont want to give away too much, but same director as Blindness

9/18/2008 11:49:22 PM

we have a tentative date as of Oct 3rd for this film at Galaxy. I'll let everyone know when we get confirmation.

9/23/2008 8:16:46 AM

Book was fantastic

Doubt the movie can live up to it

9/25/2008 2:07:06 PM

The only movie I've liked Julianne Moore in is The Big Lebowski.

She was OK in parts of Magnolia I guess. Her overacting in that movie was comical.

Probably not going to see this.

[Edited on September 25, 2008 at 2:09 PM. Reason : fhsd]

9/25/2008 2:09:19 PM

Starts Friday at Galaxy Cinema in Cary.
Showtimes of 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35. Be there.

9/29/2008 10:39:55 PM

Quote :

" BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, says the movie is "just incorrect." Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, says the movie is "just incorrect." For Marc Maurer, who's blind, such a scenario -- as shown in the movie "Blindness" -- is not a clever allegory for a breakdown in society. Instead, it's an offensive and chilling depiction that Maurer fears could undermine efforts to integrate blind people into the mainstream. "The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie," said Maurer, president of the Baltimore, Maryland-based National Federation of the Blind. "Blindness doesn't turn decent people into monsters." The organization plans to protest the movie, released by Miramax Films, at 75 theaters around the country when it's released Friday. Blind people and their allies will hand out fliers and carry signs. Among the slogans: "I'm not an actor. But I play a blind person in real life." The movie reinforces inaccurate stereotypes, including that the blind cannot care for themselves and are perpetually disoriented, according to the NFB. "We face a 70 percent unemployment rate and other social problems because people don't think we can do anything, and this movie is not going to help -- at all," said Christopher Danielsen, a spokesman for the organization. "Blindness" director Fernando Meirelles, an Academy Award nominee for "City of God," was shooting on location Thursday and unavailable for comment, according to Miramax. The studio released a statement that read, in part, "We are saddened to learn that the National Federation of the Blind plans to protest the film `Blindness."' The NFB began planning the protests after seven staffers, including Danielsen, attended a screening of the movie in Baltimore, Maryland, last week. The group included three sighted employees. "Everybody was offended," Danielsen said. Based on the 1995 novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, "Blindness" imagines a mysterious epidemic that causes people to see nothing but fuzzy white light -- resulting in a collapse of the social order in an unnamed city. Julianne Moore stars as the wife of an eye doctor (Mark Ruffalo) who loses his sight; she feigns blindness to stay with her husband and eventually leads a revolt of the quarantined patients. The book was praised for its use of blindness as a metaphor for the lack of clear communication and respect for human dignity in modern society. Miramax said in its statement that Meirelles had "worked diligently to preserve the intent and resonance of the acclaimed book," which it described as "a courageous parable about the triumph of the human spirit when civilization breaks down." Maurer will have none of it. "I think that failing to understand each other is a significant problem," he said. "I think that portraying it as associated with blindness is just incorrect." The protest will include pickets at theaters in at least 21 states, some with dozens of participants, timed to coincide with evening showtimes. Maurer said it would be the largest protest in the 68-year history of the NFB, which has 50,000 members and works to improve blind people's lives through advocacy, education and other ways. The film was the opening-night entry at the Cannes Film Festival, where many critics were unimpressed. After Cannes, Meirelles retooled the film, removing a voice-over that some critics felt spelled out its themes too explicitly. Meirelles told The Associated Press at Cannes that the film draws parallels to such disasters as Hurricane Katrina, the global food shortage and the cyclone in Myanmar. "There are different kinds of blindness. There's 2 billion people that are starving in the world," Meirelles said. "This is happening. It doesn't need a catastrophe. It's happening, and because there isn't an event like Katrina, we don't see.""

Of course people are offended by it. Why shouldn't they be. You can't do anything anymore without offending someone.

10/1/2008 12:02:53 PM

I just read that story to and

Quote :

"The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie"

If he only he would pay attention to his own statement.

[Edited on October 1, 2008 at 12:08 PM. Reason : there]

10/1/2008 12:06:19 PM

"dope"?

10/1/2008 12:12:47 PM

it's not about blind people being monsters

it's about everyone becoming a monster when nobody can watch them, when society can no longer function the way it used to

some people really are willing to be offended by the dumbest things

10/1/2008 12:30:51 PM

^ exactly

10/3/2008 8:45:32 AM

they're offended because its using blind people as the example.

What he's forgetting is that real blind people would probably get along a bit better because they've had their whole life to adapt. People that pretty much have been able to see their entire lives and then suddenly go blind would behave different. That and naturally blind people aren't suddenly being thrown into an asylum and forgotten and treated like castaways. Its not like the movie says normal blind people are contagious. Fucking moron.

Anyway, I saw it, its pretty damn depressing and disgusting. Really does make you think about how society would degrade. Also made me wonder how I would react if that happened to me....ugh.

Ending was kind of disappointing, but I understand that's not the purpose of the movie.

10/14/2008 3:24:18 PM

I don't know if it carried over into the movie, but in the book there actually was a naturally blind guy that was thrown in with them, and he was able to cope much better than anyone else because he was used to it

I have a question about the ending


**spoiler**


























I won't be seeing this probably at all, but does it end the same way as the book? They are in an apartment, they all start getting their sight back, and then the woman loses her sight?
















































**end spoiler**

10/14/2008 3:57:13 PM

***SPOILER ANSWER****












In the movie at the end, the group goes back to the main woman's house and they hang for a bit there. They all start getting their vision back and she goes outside. You think that she has lost hers but it turns out she was just looking at the sky which happened to be overcast. She looks down a bit and sees trees and stuff.










***END SPOILER***

10/14/2008 4:38:16 PM

Quote :

"I don't know if it carried over into the movie, but in the book there actually was a naturally blind guy that was thrown in with them, and he was able to cope much better than anyone else because he was used to it"

that would be correct


****** revised spoiler answer******
















They hang for a bit, and the first guy to go blind gets his sight back (not everyone) and they're all happy. Unlike the book there is no 2 year gap or anything that shows everybody happily ever after with their sight back. It just ends with her standing out on the porch looking out over the city.


hence why I was kind of disappointed.























******* end spoiler answer *******

[Edited on October 14, 2008 at 11:20 PM. Reason : .]

10/14/2008 11:19:41 PM

I just saw this movie, and it was good.

If you liked Children of Men, or 28 Days Later for its story, then you'll like this movie.

Why didn't anyone tell me about this sooner...?

1/1/2009 4:37:06 AM