Movie Review: Blindness

The one common denominator wrecking havoc on this metropolitan population is the condition of blindness. Most of us know the value of sight and dread even the remotest possibly of losing vision. Trouble big time occurs in this city as one by one this infectious condition spreads. So worried are the authorities and the powers that be that they decide to “quarantine” all those infected.
Onlookers will care for the plight of a doctor and his wife who wind up inside this caged hellhole. Cut off from the outside by less than friendly guards this pair try to manoeuvre their way through the mess as mind games and dire straights set in. Both Julianne Moore (Hannibal) and Mark Ruffalo (Zodiac) are thoroughly convincing as the couple who take it onto themselves to try to “manage” what clearly is an intolerable situation. Man’s inhumanity to man comes to the fore as dark forces inside these cloistered walls strip whatever pretense of dignity remained.
Stark images of brutality and a sense of hope make Blindness a sad commentary on desperate people and a society that simply doesn’t seem to care. Gutsy performances push through the sometimes muddled script and the many hard to see night time shots that take away from the film’s impact.
During those 120 minutes you will feel at times uncomfortable and awkward sitting through the indignities that pollute the atmosphere of a jailed population whose only crime was to have caught a mystery bug. Let’s hope none of us sink to the depths these down on their luck folks resort to in this human jungle.
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