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Blindness is Don McKellar’s screenplay adaptation of Jose Saramago's science fiction novel with the same title. The movie, like the book, questions what would happen to society if a super bug that causes blindness were to suddenly infect a large urban center?

It starts like this: A man goes blind while waiting in his car at a stoplight on a sunny morning. The effect is bright instead of dark; the man sees only white light. He’s blind and holding up traffic. After some commotion, Thief (Don McKellar) offers to help the man and drive him to the hospital, and he becomes the next character to catch the disease.

The movie introduces more characters before settling on the heroes of story.

Mark Ruffalo plays The Doctor and is the first ophthalmologist to attempt to understand the affliction. The Doctor’s Wife, Julianne Moore soon becomes the vast exception to the rule, and indeed the premise on which this wonderful film hangs; Julianne Moore’s character does not go blind, and yet she suffers even greater pain as she tirelessly cares for the sick, and silently bears witness to the decomposition of society.

It could happen anywhere at anytime - people in Toronto will remember the fear that paralyzed the city during a sudden outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in North York General Hospital. Every American was shocked when they heard testimony of the bizarre and horrific occurrences in the New Orleans Super Dome during Hurricane Katrina. Blindness puts human characters in those same mental and moral conundrums where they hate themselves and the selfishness they need to survive.

Actually Blindness goes well beyond those scenarios and into the realm of genuine horror. Those who control the food rise above the others. Gael García Bernal, Sandra Oh, Danny Glover, Alice Braga, Martha Burns, and Maury Chaykin round out this amazing cast of characters. Each story offers a different perspective on the phenomenon.

Blindness reminds viewers of the fragility of modern civilization; this movie depicts the evolution of evil in an unknown, terrifying environment.

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Jerry (Jack Black) is a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. But when his plan goes awry, the magnetic field that he creates accidentally erases all of the videotapes in a local video store where his best friend Mike (Mos Def) works. Fearing that the mishap will cost Mike his job, the two friends team up to keep the store's only loyal customer,­ a little old lady with a tenuous grasp on reality ­(Mia Farrow) from realizing what has happened by recreating and re-filming every movie that she decides to rent. They are described as having come from Sweden as an excuse for higher rental fees and longer wait times. Jerry and Mike become the biggest stars in their neighborhood by starring in some of the biggest movies ever made, but soon get into trouble when it turns out their 20-minute duplicate films violate copyright law.

This movie looks terrific. I loved Jack Black in School of Rock and I'm a big fan of Moss Def's attempts to change America from the ground up...

I don't know much about Moss Def but I have learned that on September 7, 2007, Mos Def appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher where he spoke about racism against African Americans citing the government response to Hurricane Katrina, the Jena Six and the murder conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Somehow that makes him even funnier to me - to know that he has a serious side and is passionate about his beliefs... passionate enough to speak out against the Bush Administration and publicly accuse them of being behind the 2001 Terror Attacks. (His rap song "Bin Laden" in 2004 blamed the Reagan Doctrine and President George W. Bush for the September 11, 2001 attacks. A club remix song, featuring Eminem, was released the following year, in 2005.)

Monday I got Danny's number. We're partners for the test out tomorrow. Fun fun.

Last night I called him because we were planning on "studying" today (it didn't happen), and he didn't answer his phone. So I waited until four hours to call again because I didn't want to sound needy at all. He didn't answer again, so I used my friends phone and texted him because I know he texts all the fricken time...and he answered the text within thirty seconds. So we texted for a while. At like 10pm, he asked me what I thought of him. I asked why. He told me he was just asking. I said I didn't know what to say because I didn't know what I would be getting myself into. And all he could say to that was wow...and that he didn't think it was that hard to tell someone everything they thought about them. So, hesitantly, I just said that he was cute and very fun to flirt with....because I didn't want to tell him everything. Then I asked what he thought of me. He said he was getting in the shower and to hold on a sec. I asked why he would be texting while he was in the shower and he replied back with i'm in the shower. I said sexy...right? and he said you tell me. I told him it would be...and added a smiley. But then he didn't text back, so I'm thinking he fell asleep.

I will see him tomorrow morning...and I'm going to invite him to my friends "party" on the 21st. It shall be interesting to see his reaction to what kind of party it is haha. I'm excited.

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The dream keeps replaying in my head. When he put his arms around me--I actually felt the warmth...and it felt more than real. I hope more than anything right now that I can have that dream come at least a little true.

I long for the embrace from another person...for the simple cute things like holding hands, hugs from behind, being able to wear a sweatshirt that smells like them, and cuddling on the couch. I've never had cute things like that happen to me. I want a kiss on the forehead or the top of my head during a tight hug...a boy who will turn my face with his fingertips under my chin gently...a kiss that will leave me waiting for another one just like it. I love simple things...like a hand-made card with a heartfelt message, rather than something bought and just a name signed at the bottom...a surprise visit at my house and a huge hug...a movie night...a hug from behind...cuddling on the couch, talking and laughing for hours...and flirting like the first time we met.

Am I asking for too much by any of that?? Sometimes it seems like maybe I am. None of it involves money...only a little bit of time. And wouldn't you thik that if you maybe wanted something to work, that you would want to dedicate a little extra time? I would like to think so...

Tomorrow, I'm going to look extra cute....wear my hair how it was the day he said he really liked it, and wear a cute shirt. Maybe he'll pay a little more attention than he did on Friday....and maybe he won't practically avoid me.

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Yesterday was the first day we actually got to see each other for more than five minutes...and he hardly talked to me. I mean, how can you go from flirting and acting like you were dating, to not even talking?! I don't get it at all. I was going to get his number, but I'm not even sure I'm even going to attempt to get it now. I have to see what Monday brings, and that'll be the deciding point. I hope everything works out, because I'm sick of the false endings.

Last night I had a dream...an amazing dream...one that I never want to forget about--other than the part I dreamt right before I woke up and forgot the ending but that's okay, because I remember the most important part. It felt so real...like it was actually happening. But I know it wasn't.

So here's what I remember....

My parents let me stay over at his house, and we hadn't known each other for too long...I still called his parents Mr and Mrs, and I met his grandma the day this was. So we went upstairs and put my stuff in the room I'd be staying in, and then came back downstairs. I went to the bathroom, and came out to Danny on the phone. He was talking to some of his friends, and they were coming over later for a bonfire. For some reason, Ashley from my work ended up being there later also. It then skipped to later in the night, and we were hanging out upstairs, all of his friends had left, and Ashley was the only one there still. She was planning on leaving soon. I walked over to where Danny was leaning against the wall, and flirtatiously brushed up against him, and smiled. Then I was about to walk away, and he put his arms around me, and flopped me down onto the bed...meanwhile--ashley was sitting on the floor against the wall on the other side of the room. He whispered, "Everyone is telling me I should date you......" and I asked "Yeah?" and he whispered back, "Well, will you?" and I whispered, "I don't want this to pretty much force you into a relationship if you--" and he cut me off, saying "We'll talk about this a little later..." I asked Ashley to leave, and she said no. So I told her I would tell her if anything happened, and she said okay and walked downstairs to leave. So then I flipped us over since I was laying half on top of him, and we tangled our legs together...then he flipped us around so I was laying my head on his chest with my arm drapped across and holding his opposite hand, and he kissed the top of my head and said something but I don't remember because the lights turned low (in the dream), and then I woke up.

I wish I could've remembered what happened after that. But it felt sooooo real. Why couldn't something ever happen to me like that in real life? Because I don't deserve it...

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