Blindness movie

May 07, 2008 11:57

Blindness, a science fiction novel by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, is now a movie. It stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and it's due out in September.  The story is about a plague of blindness and its effects on the victims and the rest of  society trying to shield themselves from it.

We read this book in the FACT Reading Group, and I wrote up a report on the discussion. The book was careful to not to tie its events to any particular time or place, and none of the characters have a name or a physical description. A film will have a hard if not impossible time to get across this quality.

Here's a trailer for the film: link
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