2008 · drama · mystery · sci-fi
Blindness
Directed by Fernando Meirelles2h 1m2008
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Our read: Blindness (2008) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · mystery · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- cold
Watching Blindness tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Blindness feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want brutal allegorical collapse testing how civilization survives mass blindness.”
Skip it tonight — You cannot stomach prolonged degradation, assault, or apocalyptic despair tonight.
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