Procrastination Movie Review

May 19, 2009 17:42

I'm procrastinating, and I watched a great movie last night, SO this can only mean one thing:
PROCRASTINATION MOVIE REVIEW!!!

Last night my suite mate rented the dvd Blindness. I had never heard of it before, and all I knew was that it was a thriller/drama. It starts out, a view of a busy street. All of a sudden this Japanese guy (Yoshino Kimura) starts freaking out in his car. His car is stopped in the middle of the road, and the people behind him are total dicks and continue to honk at him, despite the fact that there's obviously something wrong. He's gone blind! Some people finally figure out there's a problem. One guy offers to drive him home, and Yoshino tries to explain to the guy that all he can see is white, like everything is covered in milk. The guy drops Yoshino off at his apartment, then steals his car. Yoshino's wife brings him to the eye doctor, but the doctor says there's nothing wrong that he can see. (Yoshino and his wife are speaking Japanese and there are subtitles, but this is only intermittent. It's not a foreign movie).
The focus shifts to the man who stole the car. He also goes blind!
The movie then shows other people going blind.
Then the main focus becomes the eye doctor. He's at home with his wife. He wakes up the next morning, and he too has become blind. His wife goes with him to the quarantine, and she claims that she's blind in order to do so.
The people are all brought to a quarantine for those with the "white sickness".
It's run by the government, but it soon becomes obvious how abusive the system is. The blind basically have to fend for themselves.
Thankfully, the eye doctor's wife (Julianne Moore) is not afflicted by the blindness. She attempts to take care of the ward she is in.
A lot of injustice goes down. If you're big on social justice, this will probably make you cringe. A lot of adult situations, definitely not for those with a weak stomach. Not too gross visually, but it has it's parts.

A really fantastic thriller. At a certain point, it reaches it's peak, and after that it gradually comes down- alluding at one part to the reason for the blindness, but it never quite explains it. My suite mate tells me that the book really explains it, and that the movie ends a little prematurely, but the ending is not unsatisfying, just unexplained. I felt a lot of sympathy for the characters by the end, and felt a sort of attachment to them all. The characters were all fantastically played. Julianne Moore is amazing in this one. There are celebrities in this movie, but none of them are spotlighted. Everyone plays their part without stealing the spotlight. It's actors doing their job! Amazing! haha

The cinematography is phenomenal, reflecting the theme of the movie.

An all around great movie, it kept me engaged and on my toes- I'll give it 4 out of 5 sturrs!
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