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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Blindness can be found here.
Yes. Blindess is based on a 1995 novel of the same name by Portuguese novelist José Saramago. It was adapted for the screen by Canadian film-maker and novelist Don McKellar.
No. There are no ghouls or nefarious corporations. In fact, there is no clear enemy, no clear cause for the blindness affecting a whole city. The "horror" in the movie is not to show people being attacked by voracious zombies but to show the fragility of the social infrastructure that we have designed to keep ourselves safe.
As per José Saramago's wishes when he consented to the adaptation, the film is intentionally not set in any recognizable location. This is done to emphasize the universality of the film and that the outbreak could (and possibly did) occur anywhere. To this end, many aspects of the film's setting (cars, architecture, languages spoken, etc.) are taken from many different parts of the world and the government depicted appears to be a "one-world" government. The shots of the city skyline seen throughout, however, are the skyline of São Paulo, Brazil; that city and Toronto served as the primary filming locations.
No matter the disease, virus, or bacterial infection that occurs, there will always be a few in the world who are immune to it. Even currently, there are a select number of people in the world who are immune to such deadly viruses such as AIDS, Ebola, and typhoid. It's completely plausible that Julianne Moore's character was immune to the blindless.
It's the main theme from the movie "Sunshine", written by John Murphy. It is the track "Escaping the Icarus II" from the movie soundtrack released on iTunes.
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