Blindness Us

Original Title: Blindness
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Screenwriter: Don McKellar
Nationality : Canada, Brazil, Japan
Genre : Drama
Premiere : 26 September 2008
Runtime :118 mn
Official site: www.blindness-themovie.com
Festival: cannes Film Festival 2008

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Gael Garcia Bernal .......... King of Ward 3
Alice Braga .......... Girl with the dark glasses
Danny Glover .......... Old man with the black eye patch
Yusuke ISEYA .......... First blind man
Yoshino Kimura .......... First blind man's wife
Don MC Kellar .......... The thief
Julianne Moore .......... Doctor's Wife
Sandra Oh.......... Minister of health
Mark Ruffalo .......... Doctor

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