Director fernando meirelles finally get his hands on the movie rights of blindness, the novel by nobel laureate jose saramago. Later come the girl with dark glasses, the boy with the squint, the old man. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers on the doctors wife, her husband, several of his patients, and assorted others, who. Blindness is a great idea for a story, an epidemic with a difference. When an epidemic of a disease known as the white sickness appears in her city, the wife julianne moore of a doctor is one of the few individuals left who still has sight. Boston globe a city is hit by an epidemic of white blindness which spares no one. Sent to a government asylum along with her now blind husband mark ruffalo, she sees conditions deteriorate until civilization itself is in jeopardy, prompting her breakout of the asylum to lead a.
Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created society of the blind quickly breaks down. Another film demonstrating similar issues is blindness 2008, fernando meirelles, which deals with a fictional disease that causes epidemic blindness, leading to collective hysteria. Jan 11, 2014 10 movies that will make you want to wash your hands. Jan 24, 2017 global epidemic of blindness on the horizon, experts warn. After an epidemic of white blindness strikes a city, survivors struggle to live while coping with sudden sightlessness. Social responses to epidemics depicted by cinema volume 26. Blindness is a 2008 englishlanguage thriller film and an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by portuguese author jose saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. Only one among them can see, a woman as unnamed as anyone else in the story, but we come to know her as the doctors wife. Mindblindness, a disability to be aware of mental states.
A stunningly powerful novel of humanitys will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the nobel prize for literature. Its a white blindness that obliterates all vision immediately and is assumed to be highly contagious. They all wind up quarantined inside a kind of dormitory, with armed guards. The film is starring julianne moore and mark ruffalo. Blindness 2008 film, a 2008 film adaptation of the 1995 novel. In an unknown city full of people who are never named, an inexplicable and incurable epidemic of blindness strikes without warning, causing all but one of. An international bestseller this is a shattering work by a literary master. As the contagion spreads, and paranoia sets in, the newly blind. Global epidemic of blindness on the horizon, study says. Imprisoning the afflicted in a disused mental hospital and treating them the way the authorities do is genius. Hours spent staring at screens will rob millions of their sight decades early high energy light from digital screens is damaging our.
The sudden blindness, known only as the white sickness, is now international, with hundreds of cases being reported every day. The film, released on march 10, 1995, was a boxoffice success and spacey won two awards for his performance. Best epidemic movies list best website for movie lists. While it is realistic in the sense that epidemic blindness would cause a great deal of chaos, it is hard to assess beyond that. Army medical research institute of infectious diseases, contends with. A reallife outbreak of the ebola virus was occurring in zaire when the film was released. Blindness is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films ive ever seen. Denatured, sometimes overexposed, sometimes too shadowy to see, it is an. Myla goldberg says saramago vividly illustrates disasters potential to bring out both the best and the worst in.
Tommy edison, the blind film critic, talks to luke buckmaster about american hustle, audio. The blindness of the novel operates in this same allegorical vein, using blindness as a metaphor for ignorance. Mind blindness, a disability to be aware of mental states. When the blindness epidemic first strikes, an ophthalmologist and his patients are the first people to be struck ill. An early band of affected citizens is sent to a mental ward, in the hopes of containing this sudden epidemic of blindness. Carriers film contagion 2011 film the crazies 2010 film the crazies 1973 film day of the dead. Silent epidemic the untold story of vaccines movie.
The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, scary and visually appealing films and tv shows about with plague, danger, deadly, survival, virus, death, dialogue, chaos, blood and catastrophe plots mostly in thriller, drama and scifi genres shot in usa, uk, canada and. Blindness yify subtitles subtitles for yify movies. The epidemic is over and even if she became blind though from the last passage i concluded she didnt, its a matter of a month or so to get better. Fernando meirelles protestation that his scifi scarer is an allegory cannot disguise the damage it will do published. Blindness never loses sight of its allegorical message. World war z, dawn of the dead, contagion, awakenings, 120 battements par minute, the painted veil, les temoins, outbreak, and more with aggragate ratings, trailers, stream links and other details. In blindness, a city is ravaged by, well, blindness. Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. One of the women, the always excellent julianne moore, who is immune to the blindness pretends to be blind so she can accompany her husband, mark ruffalo. The books structure juxtaposes scenes of survivors of the epidemic with the sudden end of the world as we know it, as the georgian flu wreaks havoc. In outbreak, dustin hoffmans colonel sam daniels, a virologist with the u. Blindness, the nobel prizewinning novel by jose saramengo. Directed by david gelb, quico meirelles, pedro morelli.
Evocative of the recent sars epidemic, or occurrences in the new orleans super dome during hurricane katrina, blindness takes place in a city which is ravaged by an epidemic. A collection of the endoftheworld type movies ive seen and enjoyed, varying from infection to devastation and postapocalyptia. Nov 14, 2016 as a city is ravaged by an epidemic of sudden blindness, its victims are quarantined in a derelict hospital where a woman fakes the illness to care for her beloved husband. Sep 18, 2008 a city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness. A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness. The andromeda strain film antisocial film biohazard 4dexecuter. So the movie blindness is going to be release in september 2008. What i learned about coronavirus from bingewatching 10. Virgil spent the whole movie dealing with people who wanted to cure his blindness instead of loving him the way he was, and the film succeeded in portraying that as an ugly way to be an ally. The 20 best pandemic books to read during coronavirus. Blindness, the nobel prizewinning novel by jose saramengo, in this happening is steeped in literary origins. Blindness dystopian fable becomes an overwrought movie. A provocative and comprehensive look into the creation of the major motion picture blindness.
She and a small group of quarantined internees must survive the nightmare. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, scary and visually appealing films and tv shows about with plague, danger, deadly, survival, virus, death, dialogue, chaos, blood and catastrophe plots mostly in thriller, drama and scifi genres shot in usa, uk. Sent to a government asylum along with her nowblind husband mark ruffalo, she sees conditions deteriorate until civilization itself is in jeopardy, prompting her breakout of the asylum to lead a small group to freedom. Now, moore plays a seeing woman in a sightless world in blindness, the film adaptation of jose saramagos apocalyptic novel about an epidemic. Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created society of the. In a nutshell, the movie follows a group of folks who fall victim to a blindness epidemic and get thrown into an abandoned facility by the military to be quarantined. Blindness novel, a 1995 novel by portuguese author jose saramago. Based on the novel by nobel prizewinning novelist jose saramago, blindness takes place in an unspecified modern city, where a small group of people are afflicted with a disease that takes away their vision and fills their eyes with nothing but a vast, featureless whiteness like im swimming in milk, as one character puts it. Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation. Fernando meirelles adaptation of nobel prizewinning author jose saramagos novel blindness begins when an epidemic of blindness strikes the world. As other comments mention, this movie leaves you somewhat disgusted at being human, because the consequences of a nonexplained epidemic of white blindness appear extremely realistic. Follow the movie on facebook plot summary when an epidemic of a disease known as the white sickness appears in her city, the wife julianne moore of a. Blindness, 2008 adapted from a pretty good book, blindness is a movie about an epidemic where everyone has gone white blind.
For this first blind man yusuke iseya, everything has gone white. It is an adaptation of the 1995 novel japanese film the flu is about the outbreak of a deadly strain of h5n1 that kills its victims within 36 hours. In an attempt to prevent the epidemic from growing out of control, those suffering this are taken away and. Society breaks down quickly, and only one woman has retained her sight. Blindness, a song by metric from the 2009 album fantasies. Follow the movie on facebook plot summary when an epidemic of a disease known as the white sickness appears in her city, the wife julianne moore of a doctor is one of the few individuals left. Led by a powerful allstar cast featuring julianne moore, mark ruffalo and danny glover, this unflinching story begins when a plague of. With julianne moore, mark ruffalo, gael garcia bernal, yusuke iseya. Dawn of the dead, carry on, constable, world war z, rabid, awakenings, zombi 2, outbreak, contagion, and more with aggragate ratings, trailers, stream links and other details. Julianne moore and mark ruffalo are playing a married couple in the midst of the epidemic, with one small plot twist, moores character is the only one that hasnt gone blind. Jose saramago tells the grim tale of a city devastated by an epidemic of blindness. He, along with other victims, is sent to a government detention center so that they can be quarantined. Silent epidemic, by award winning film director gary null, is the first documentary to investigate thoroughly the true medical record and the. With outbreak turning 25 this month, here are 15 of the most talked about movies on virus outbreaks and pandemics.
Evocative of the recent sars epidemic, or occurrences in the new orleans super dome during hurricane katrina, blindness takes. Overall, the film considers the human capacity for prejudice, indifference, selfishness, and an easy resort to aggression and violence. A in a nutshell, the movie follows a group of folks who fall victim to a blindness epidemic and get thrown into an abandoned facility by the military to be quarantined. With fernando meirelles, julianne moore, mark ruffalo, danny glover. The film was written by don mckellar and directed by fernando meirelles, with julianne moore and mark ruffalo as the main characters. It is an allegory about a group of people who survive under great stress, but frankly i would rather have seen them perish than sit through the final threequarters of the film. He, along with other victims, is sent to a government detention center so that. Victims of a mysterious epidemic of blindness sweeping through a city soon face. Desperate by this point, the totalitarian government resorts to increasingly ruthless measures to try to staunch the epidemic. The city in which this catastrophic epidemic of blindness breaks out is never identified. The blindness in the platonic allegory serves as a barrier to understanding just as the blindness in the novel is itself something incomprehensible the doctors are baffled as to its cause, how it spreads and what can stop it. Blindness 2008 is about the society in the face of an epidemic causing blindness.
In a dangerous postapocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea. Sep 22, 2016 virgils surgery doesnt fix him and his vision begins to deteriorate again. Nobody has a name in blindness, jose saramagos symphonic new novel. Blindness did the doctors wife actually go blind at the. Blindness movie groups jose saramago adaptations synopsis plot a city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.
Outbreak s plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease. In the novel blindness, which inspired a recently released movie by the same name, nobel laureate jose saramago uses blindness as a metaphor for moral depravity, filth, and social collapse. Watch blindness movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at. The pistol used in the movie appears to be a snubnosed revolver, typically holding between 5 to.