A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is however one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble. Their voyage is fraught with danger, yet their survival and ultimate redemption reflect the tenacity and depth of the human spirit. I love how the protagonist, Julianne Moore who plays the doctor's wife, the only one who did not go blind (she avoided to get infected with the disease for not sleeping for days) is portrayed. Her character's responsibility beginning is simply her husband. But her ability to see ultimately both isolates her and makes her into a leader. As time goes on, she feels isolated in being the only one with sight.
This movie portrays the metophorical meaning of blindness, social degradation and disorder, as well as the inevitable traits of greed and temptation in every human being. There's this scene where some idiotic dickhead with a gun appoints himself 'the King of Ward 3', a room in the prison which is made up of all men prisoners who take over the food rations. As people begin to starve the room of all men offer food in exchange for valuables. After no more valuables are to be had an orgy with the women and wives is wanted. 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 the 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". The fist moves and the sound of the skull being hit as she is being raped with his loud voice "Move for me!" unsettles the other women who in the end of the scene bring out her dead body in their arms like pallbearer. Welcome to the cruel real world. Despite me revealing some spoilers, do catch the movie, it's really an eye-opener. (its M18)
This movie portrays the metophorical meaning of blindness, social degradation and disorder, as well as the inevitable traits of greed and temptation in every human being. There's this scene where some idiotic dickhead with a gun appoints himself 'the King of Ward 3', a room in the prison which is made up of all men prisoners who take over the food rations. As people begin to starve the room of all men offer food in exchange for valuables. After no more valuables are to be had an orgy with the women and wives is wanted. 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 the 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". The fist moves and the sound of the skull being hit as she is being raped with his loud voice "Move for me!" unsettles the other women who in the end of the scene bring out her dead body in their arms like pallbearer. Welcome to the cruel real world. Despite me revealing some spoilers, do catch the movie, it's really an eye-opener. (its M18)
Many loves to my groupmates (: Thank you for making PW a blast.
Baby, I must say that I loovvvveeee you so. Thank you for staying up with me when I have tons of work to do (even though you're up 'cause you're lepak-ing with your friends, but I do appreciate you for encouraging to complete my tasks when I don't feel like doing so)
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