Three reasons to watch Blindness
I just saw this movie Blindness, and it's facinating. Here are three reasons to watch it instantly on your Netflixs cue...
1. There are some pretty risky directorial decisions, even though the movie is about blindness..
A lot of the movie is spent in either darkness, lightness, or harsh contrasts so the audience is kinda blind, like most of the actors.
2. Pretty amazing art direction
A lot of the movie is spent in either darkness, lightness, or harsh contrasts so the audience is kinda blind, like most of the actors.
2. Pretty amazing art direction
This one shot shows the wife going through a door to the kitchen, the door is on a center hinge---how cool is that! The pristine, post-modern feel to the beginning of the movie is only fitting, as a major theme involves how disgusting people are when they don't can't see themselves. lots of filth, nakedness, and trash make these first shots of perfect home decorations all the more fitting....leading me to point number three....
3. The 'Dawn of the Dead' third act, where children run ferral, dogs eat corpses, and all those other post-apocolyptic scenarios desperately come true. I thought I had this movie pegged as a 'moral' movie where they all teach us about blindness in society, etc, etc---but really this guy just wanted to make a follow up to 28 Days Later...the realism of all these shots freaked me out a whole lot more than any zombie movie i've seen in recent days...
3. The 'Dawn of the Dead' third act, where children run ferral, dogs eat corpses, and all those other post-apocolyptic scenarios desperately come true. I thought I had this movie pegged as a 'moral' movie where they all teach us about blindness in society, etc, etc---but really this guy just wanted to make a follow up to 28 Days Later...the realism of all these shots freaked me out a whole lot more than any zombie movie i've seen in recent days...
