I saw Blindness last night and I thought it was pretty good. The forced orgy scene was agreeably very disturbing to me also but I'm sure thats how Fernando Meirelles wanted it to be. Just like City of God and Constant Gardener he makes the viewer feel the exact emotions of the characters on the screen. He wanted everyone to be freaked out and disgusted because that how everyone one of the 1st Ward felt, men and women both. When they demanded everyone's jewelry for food I thought to myself right then that it would run out sooner or later and the only thing they would have left to demand would be the women. There was even a group of people behind me who got up and left when they were carrying the woman back. Honestly I respect someone who can pull that off! All that means is he did his job right to effect people that way. I did find the ending a little dull but I'm sure thats how the book went so I can respect that.

MY GRADE: B

Blindness is a classical (post) apocalyptic vision unrolled in the only possible way to describe an apocalypse – as disturbing.

This is Don McKellar's second try at it. The first one was Last Night, from 1998, a tremendous and not widely known movie really worth finding and watching. It is an Earth-level extinction as played on Broadway, and in Canada.

For Blindness, the fact that Don used "some guy's book" to make the screenplay, and not Day of the Triffids, 1951, is probably just the matter of convenience. Day of the Triffids is THE movie on apocalypse-after-mass-blindness and i am numbed how few connections are made on the net between it and Blindness.

Don McKellar is a person who understands artistic anarchy. And so it seems is the gorgeous Alice Braga who played a similar role in I am Legend. She had a well-behaved kid there as well if your recall. I'd say, even the actor-kids are probably better kids after hanging out with her on the set. And she is THE apocalyptic darling. For want of a better analogy in the world of pop, she is one queen MILF in Distress.

The rest of cast did an excellent job too. The prison scences were realistic materialization of a blind Dogsville, with just a little less cinematic scrutiny. it did risk to display, however, much more understading for the ruthless scavanger-economy that the 'innocent' von Trier flick wouldn't try to carve in chalk, what with all self-sufficient Dogme American agriculture there.

Come to think of it, the only big negative remark i have about Blindness is the intro. The first man going blind was an event not well played. People who want to describe such extraordinary and unnatural changes in a human being, need to do a better job. There was no close-up, no BSG-style camera-shaking of a man screaming in terror after he had just lost 95% of his sensory input during rush hours.

Please watch Blindness and don't decry it just because it is terrifying.

Save your money and stay away. If you go you will leave the thearte long before the end anyway.

I just rented this movie and what I equate this with more than a post apocalyptic story is it reminded me very much of Lord of the Flies which I hated reading in school because of it's sick and disturbing imagery. Also I am befuddled by peoples comments that everyone in the movie did a good job acting as people who were supposed to be blind were constantly looking around and making eye contact with others. I would think the director should have said ..that was good but lets do another take and this time, DON'T LOOK AT WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO!..

Blindness is a nice refreshment in the niche of apocalyptic movies. Plot is intriguing, characters are well developed. We see how people can turn into the different persons in special situation.