Review of Blindness

Blindness (2008)
1/10
Atrocious
14 October 2008
Warning: Spoilers
I wish I could give this movie 0 stars. I don't even know where to begin to describe the horrible experience that was paying to see this movie, although I suspect I would have felt the same way if I had pirated it from the Internet.

The "heroine" had the sole advantage over the rest of the population, being sighted and all, and rarely uses it. When she does, it boggles the mind as to why she waited so long.

The "villain" possesses a gun, but HE IS BLIND. The rest are afraid anyway. He also demands currency in exchange for food, and no one thinks to bring up the fact that they are confined to an unstaffed quarantined building, and that the collection of material possessions is futile and useless. Or more importantly, that they could easily fight back, being on a level playing field...oh, no, wait- one of them CAN SEE.

But they wait until the antihero and his disgusting cohorts rape the women of the other wards (albeit they are "voluntary" victims), including their farcical "heroine", before she decides to use against him the weapon she has been hoarding from the beginning.

And NOT ONE man objects to the women giving themselves to the repugnant legion in exchange for food (though they really don't have to- see above), aside from the husband who is merely afraid of his own loss of dignity as a result. I guess chivalry really is dead. So is common sense.

The premise is ridiculous, and it is laughable to suppose that this dreck represents a coherent diatribe on human behavior as it gives way to indifference and chaos. I have had to suspend disbelief for movies before, but my psyche was ready to implode from all the lingering I did during this stupendously dreadful flick.

What a waste of good actors, too. For shame that they (presumably) saw this finished product and did not subsequently withdraw themselves from public life for all eternity. I don't give way to labels flippantly, nor do I tend to exaggerate, but this is easily the worst movie I have ever seen.
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