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Release Date:
3 October 2008 (USA)
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Tagline:
Lust is blind. more
Plot:
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined...
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12 wins
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14 nominations
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Opens your eyes for something you don't want to see
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Yusuke Iseya | ... | First Blind Man | |
| Jason Bermingham | ... | Driver #1 | |
| Eduardo Semerjian | ... | Concerned Pedestrian #1 | |
| Don McKellar | ... | Thief | |
| Ciça Meirelles | ... | Driver #2 | |
| Antônio Fragoso | ... | Concerned Pedestrian #2 | |
| Lilian Blanc | ... | Concerned Pedestrian #3 | |
| Douglas Silva | ... | Onlooker #1 | |
| Daniel Zettel | ... | Onlooker #2 | |
| Yoshino Kimura | ... | First Blind Man's Wife | |
| Joe Pingue | ... | Taxi Driver | |
| Susan Coyne | ... | Receptionist | |
| Danny Glover | ... | Man with the Black Eye Patch | |
| Fabiana Guglielmetti | ... | Mother of the Boy (as Fabiana Gugli) | |
| Mitchell Nye | ... | Boy |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Blindness (Japan: English title)
Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira (Brazil)
L'aveuglement (Canada: French title)
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Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira (Brazil)
L'aveuglement (Canada: French title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity.
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Runtime:
121 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R |
Netherlands:16 |
Brazil:16 |
UK:18 |
Canada:14A |
Japan:PG-12 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
Ireland:15A |
Singapore:M18 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Germany:12 |
Chile:14 |
Argentina:16 |
South Korea:18 |
Finland:K-15 |
Peru:14 |
Taiwan:R-12 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
France:U (with warning) |
Mexico:B15 |
Australia:MA |
New Zealand:R18
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Portuguese Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the author of the novel upon which the film is based, wanted to attend the premiere of the film at the Cannes Film Festival. His doctors didn't allow him to travel, so the director flew to Lisbon to show him the film.
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Factual errors: When the first blind man arrives home, he says he lives on the 14th floor. After his wife arrives you can see some trees through the kitchen window. Those trees should not be there.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: (#8.30)" (2009)
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Why wasn't Julianne Moore's character affected by the blindness?Is this another of those "escaped virus" horror movies?
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The movie has its merits. It brings you into the story, making you feel all the emotions felt by the characters, and in my opinion this is why some people didn't like it; it opens your eyes for things that nobody wants to see. I'm not saying that a disease like this one could happen, but others may come, and that's a reality.
The movie makes you feel extremely uncomfortable; I caught myself thinking about leaving the room sometimes. The atmosphere that Fernando Meireles built is so heavy and dark (even thought the whole movie is full of bright colors) that it makes you feel something like depression, sadness, and you keep thinking in the movie after it has finished. The acting helped a lot in this aspect; all the actors did their best to give a perfect sense of reality.
If you want just to spend some time watching a good apocalyptic movie, this is not the one. It may be considered as "cult" in someway, by the fact that you don't watch it to get entertained, but to reflect about it.
If I had to grade this movie based on how I felt during it, I would give it a 0, but I have to say that, above everything, it is a great movie.
8/10