Oct 3 2008L@@K: It's Five Minutes of 'Blindness'
For those still deciding whether to see Blindness or protest it this weekend, here's the first five minutes to help you decide. Personally, I'll see you guys from the picket line. I just won't tolerate the way the blind man in this clip is portrayed: having a normal conversation, stumbling on the steps he can't see, logically thinking the weird guy who offers to drive him home might be trying to steal his car. HE'S A MONSTER!
Reader Comments
1. scrilla - October 3, 2008 2:42 PM
thats not how people would react to that situation
2. fdsfdsfr4d - October 3, 2008 3:12 PM
they were a bit quick to help yea... if tht happened in london noone would do anything for about 20mins.
also, i wouldnt call myself blind if i just saw white...i d say im dazzled or something. e.g. from an overexposure to light...
3. STFUP - October 3, 2008 3:16 PM
The blind people protesting this movie are idiots.
4. ali - October 3, 2008 4:46 PM
did they really have to translate the blindness into a visual aesthetic. i suppose hollywood assumes, no one has an imagination anymore...sheesh.
5. Elmo - October 3, 2008 8:52 PM
Ahh, I'm not gonna watch it
If I really want to see it, I'll stay away from all the clips....
or sell pencils on a sidewalk
6. Frank - October 4, 2008 4:37 PM
This will most likely be better than The Happening
7. mugs - October 4, 2008 5:59 PM
This movie was decent..... Jose Saramago's novel is amazing in itself.... this movie did a decent job portraying everything the novel represents... minus a few couple details..
8. mild - October 4, 2008 9:56 PM
I thought it was a good highly tense movie. The movie was much more serious business than i thought it was going to be and it does torture its audience with very little tension relief, but i found the experience satisfying.
The people protesting this movie are under the assumption that a society in mass suddenly being blinded would be able to behave in a civilized way instead of panicking... Or are we to believe that the 500,000 or so blind people in any given country would be able to take care of the millions of newly blind?
9. lulu - October 6, 2008 1:14 PM
how do blind people even think its offensive? they obviously haven't seen the movie. do they some how get a hold of a braille transcript of the movie? or a book?
10. Malicious Lingerer - October 7, 2008 11:02 PM
If they'd actually read the book (Nobel prize winner), they'd realize it's not really about blind people