Blindness (film) with Julianne Moore
Posted on January 10, 2009
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Blindness (film)- Julianne Moore
The movie begins when a few people gain sudden blindness. When the world is afraid it is contagious the government quarantines the group. Others follow in the government prison who are also blind and the movie follows the prison gang activities between three rooms of prisoners in their quest for survival. The outside is shut off and the characters are not shown what has become of the world during the movie.
One of the rooms in the prison, Ward 3, is made up of all men prisoners who take over the food rations. The King of Ward 3 has a gun. As people begin to starve the room of all men offer food in exchange for valuables. Women volunteer to save the rest of the prisoners from starvation. Half with bravery, half in tears they walk into the room of blind men reaching out in the air for them. The movie fades to black as you listen to grunts of the men and a flicker of a spotlight show a fist in air cracking down on the skull of a woman who has gone into shock and called by the blind men a “dead fish”. 
This encourages one woman who had entered with her husband who has her sight try to launch a gang war fare in the government makeshift prison. She walks into Ward 3, kills the King, the group of men dissolve into disarray. One blind woman sets fire to Ward 3 and it begins to burn down, the heroine leads the blind outside into the main yard only to find the guards are gone and they are free. Only to discover that the world outside is also fallen to the illness, they make their way through littered streets to find everyone is blind.
BLINDNESS premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on 14th May 2008 which was attended by Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and the film was released in the United States on 3rd October 2008. Director Fernando Meirelles chose an international cast for the movie including Americans Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover along with Mexico’s Gael Garcia Bernal and Japan’s Yoshino Kimura and Yusuke Iseya. Other ensemble cast includes Julianne Moore, Alice Braga, Don McKellar and Maury Chaykin.
Produced by Niv Fichman, Andrea Barata Ribeiro and Sonoko Sakai, BLINDNESS is an unflinching exploration of human nature, both bad and good–people’s selfishness, opportunism, and indifference, but also their capacity for empathy, love and sheer perseverance.
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