Blindness is a 2008 dramatic thriller film that is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by José Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. The film is written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo as the stars. The novel's author originally refused to sell rights for a film adaptation, not wanting it to fall into the wrong hands. Meirelles was able to acquire rights with the condition that the film would be set in an unrecognizable city. Blindness premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008, and the film was released in the United States on October 3, 2008.
Story Based on acclaimed Portuguese author Jose Saramago’s bestseller, a dark fable that saw an epidemic of blindness take over the entire globe, the story now has a more linear interpretation on screen. A city is slowly enveloped with a virus that causes white blindness. The early victims are then quarantined in a hellhole that fosters degrading acts and power plays by one group over the other.
All rules of society break down as the blind don’t lead the blind--they take advantage of each other, including a gang rape perpetrated on the women by a male faction led by Gael Garcia Bernal. There is one woman (Julianne Moore), married to a doctor (Mark Ruffalo), who actually is the only one who has still retained her sight but she doesn’t let on to that fact for most in the facility. She puts a small band of people together and proceeds to lead them out of the darkness of the snake pit they have been thrown into and back to life in the ravaged city.
Fact Sheet on acting of "Blindness" film
All rules of society break down as the blind don’t lead the blind--they take advantage of each other, including a gang rape perpetrated on the women by a male faction led by Gael Garcia Bernal. There is one woman (Julianne Moore), married to a doctor (Mark Ruffalo), who actually is the only one who has still retained her sight but she doesn’t let on to that fact for most in the facility. She puts a small band of people together and proceeds to lead them out of the darkness of the snake pit they have been thrown into and back to life in the ravaged city.
Fact Sheet on acting of "Blindness" film Despite the grim nature of the story and the somewhat stereotyped nature of many characters in it, Blindness can be thankful to have the luminous presence of Julianne Moore, perhaps the gutsiest actress working in film today. 
There doesn’t seem to be anything she can’t--or won’t--do for the sake of a movie, and once again she’s a strong, centered heroine trying to rise above the most dire circumstances and help others in distress. 
She’s also gone blonde for the role of the Doctor’s Wife whose ordered existence is turned upside down when she is suddenly thrust into the most harrowing situation imaginable.
Ruffalo does well as the Doctor (none of the characters have been given names, just descriptions) and makes his blindness completely credible.
So do the other principals, including Danny Glover as the Man with the Black Eye Patch and Alicia Braga as the Woman with Dark Glasses. Bernal is properly grimy and despicable as the self titled King of Ward Three.
The rape act he leads is disturbing and may be a difficult sit for squeamish members of the audience.
There doesn’t seem to be anything she can’t--or won’t--do for the sake of a movie, and once again she’s a strong, centered heroine trying to rise above the most dire circumstances and help others in distress. 
She’s also gone blonde for the role of the Doctor’s Wife whose ordered existence is turned upside down when she is suddenly thrust into the most harrowing situation imaginable.
Ruffalo does well as the Doctor (none of the characters have been given names, just descriptions) and makes his blindness completely credible.
So do the other principals, including Danny Glover as the Man with the Black Eye Patch and Alicia Braga as the Woman with Dark Glasses. Bernal is properly grimy and despicable as the self titled King of Ward Three.
The rape act he leads is disturbing and may be a difficult sit for squeamish members of the audience.
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