I wanted to like this film and had great expectations, yet by the end of the movie I was annoyed at the entire production. Plot holes of some degree are to be expected in any movie, but the ones in Blindness were so gaping that they became major distractions.
The point is made at the start that Ward 1 would be the best to be in because they were closest to the supplies, yet despite that and despite the fact that they have the only sighted person in the building who can see the deliveries coming, they end up with nothing.
The Julianne Moore character leading the lambs to the slaughter so to speak (women exchanged for food) was absurd. Her walking up to the "dictator" with a metal pipe and smashing him in the head would have been the obvious move. He has a gun. So? And the idea that just because the "dictator" had a man who was already blind on his team, they had a great advantage, is absurd as well. I work with blind people daily. Their blindness does not give them magical powers. They have a degree of increased sensitivity with other senses, but still walk into walls and head the wrong way pretty often, so while they would have an advantage in that they had no adjustments to make when the affliction hit the world, that's about all.
In the end, I was reminded of "Children of Men", another film which had great promise but ultimately disappointed. At least that movie started out great however. "Blindness" just meandered around, and did so for a long, long time as well. "Day of the Triffids", an old sci-fi movie, gave a better take on the possibilities of such an epidemic.
The point is made at the start that Ward 1 would be the best to be in because they were closest to the supplies, yet despite that and despite the fact that they have the only sighted person in the building who can see the deliveries coming, they end up with nothing.
The Julianne Moore character leading the lambs to the slaughter so to speak (women exchanged for food) was absurd. Her walking up to the "dictator" with a metal pipe and smashing him in the head would have been the obvious move. He has a gun. So? And the idea that just because the "dictator" had a man who was already blind on his team, they had a great advantage, is absurd as well. I work with blind people daily. Their blindness does not give them magical powers. They have a degree of increased sensitivity with other senses, but still walk into walls and head the wrong way pretty often, so while they would have an advantage in that they had no adjustments to make when the affliction hit the world, that's about all.
In the end, I was reminded of "Children of Men", another film which had great promise but ultimately disappointed. At least that movie started out great however. "Blindness" just meandered around, and did so for a long, long time as well. "Day of the Triffids", an old sci-fi movie, gave a better take on the possibilities of such an epidemic.