Blindness, the novel adapted into film, was originally written by Jose Saramago. The movie is rated "R" for mature content.
The plot is about modern society hit with an epidemic of blindness and how people react to it. Stars such as Julianne Moore & Mark Ruffalo play a couple that seemed to have an ordinary life until Mark Ruffalo comes down with an unusual case of blindness yet his wife stays with vision. Eventually, the disease begins to become a big problem and the government assigns all citizens with the disease into a quarantine until it subsides. Of course, chaos ensues.
Now getting to the main squeeze. The film opens with a Japanese man, played by Yusuke Iseya, finding out he is blind. Normally in most Western movies, the Asian character is only a temporary role in the film, but actually, he stayed in the whole movie along with his wife played by Yoshino Kimura. Both end up with disease and together, along with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, plus some other people, they end up in the quarantine and have to fight for their lives. In the end, Yusuke Iseya has the ability to see again, hinting that the blindness was only a temporary problem.
The film had a lot of morals, but the most important ones were that humans should ban together and material goods are basically worthless; (perhaps) what to expect when an epidemic hits; and human nature when shortages happen.
Overall this movie is a thumbs up. It seems so real that it's actually depressing. Plan your next visit to the theaters NOW!
