Blindness

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Category: 16
All Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: Canada, Brazil, Japan
Runtime: 120
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, Japanese
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital
Taglines:

Lust is blind.

In a world gone blind, what if you were the only person who could see?

Hope is blind.

Love is blind.

Your vision of the world will change forever.

This fall, our vision of the world will change forever.

Faith is blind.

Trust is blind.

You'll never see it coming

Writing by: José Saramago - (novel "Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira")
Don McKellar - (screenplay)

Produced by: Nicolas Aznarez - service producer
Andrea Barata Ribeiro - producer
Bel Berlinck - co-producer
Claudia Büschel - associate producer
Simon Channing Williams - executive producer
Gail Egan - executive producer
Niv Fichman - producer
Sari Friedland - co-producer
Akira Ishii - executive producer
Victor Loewy - executive producer
Aeschylus Poulos - associate producer
Chris Romano - service producer
Sonoko Sakai - producer
Austin Wong - associate producer
Tom Yoda - executive producer

Cast: Julianne Moore - Doctor's Wife
Mark Ruffalo - Doctor
Alice Braga - Woman with the Dark Glasses
Yusuke Iseya - First Blind Man
Yoshino Kimura - First Blind Man's Wife
Don McKellar - Thief
Jason Bermingham - Driver #1
Maury Chaykin - Accountant
Mitchell Nye - Boy
Eduardo Semerjian - Concerned Pedestrian #1
Danny Glover - Man with the Black Eye Patch

Music: Marco Antônio Guimarães
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Plot Outline: A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined...
Plot: 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.

Movie Quotes: [from trailer]
Doctor's Wife: The only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
No penis was harmed in the making of this motion picture.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
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.

Trivia: There are 8 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Producer Niv Fichman became interested in the project back in 1999 when he and Don McKellar, who would write the script, flew to the Canary Islands to talk to the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago about giving them the film rights to his book. One of Saramago's conditions was that the film must not be set in any recognizable countries.
Selected as the opening film at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
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.