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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.
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.)
1. What is the strangest thing or who is the strangest famous person that for some reason or other turns you on?
I have to admit that Crispin Glover has sex appeal. There's just something about him that suggests sexiness to me, yet I look at him and he really isn't an average kind of guy that I would call a "hunk." The other thing that turns me on is lipgloss of all things! There's something really sensual about applying something slick and shiney on your lips...
2. What's the funniest, most embarassing moment you've ever had happen during sex?
I was going down on a guy and just before he came I took a deep breath and accidentally, literally inhaled his man-juice!!! We both start laughing so hard I could barely breathe. So, yeah, I can honestly say I not only suck and swallow, I've also INHALED! However, I don't recommend it. It stung the sinuses.
3. Pretend for a moment that you are a stand-up comedian. What funniest/weirdest aspect(s) of your life, family, home, or job that would harp on in your comedy routine?
Romantic and sexual relationships interspersed with extreme bouts of cussing. Mainly because I've had some pretty fucked up experiences and I'm no where near closer to understanding other people.
Like, for instance, why is it that for some reason I'm the girl who'll treat her guy like he's some kind of Prince -- I mean I'm giving the guy head every night and yet it's not enough to keep him interested. He goes for the anorexic chic next door who refuses to have sex with him. He feels the need to take care of her. Isn't she cute throwing up like that? Oh, yeah, but what about taking care of the woman who takes care of you, if you know what I mean? What is up with that? Take my ex-fiance for example, after we dump each other (I dumped him because he liked to order me around, he dumped me because he couldn't figure out why I should have a problem with that... "Gee, honey, all I did was tell you to have four kids for me!" Hey, it's my body and ain't no way I'm carrying some brat the size of a watermelon in my uterus four times, let alone once) he goes and joins several different dating services and then starts dating up to five women all at once. What was he thinking?! I think the fucker was playing "girlfriend lottery" -- thinking he's gonna up his chances at finding "the one" if he broadens the field!
4. What is your biggest pet peeve?
People who package bullshit in the wrapping of "truth." You know the types out there. They even buy into their own crap. In the small town I live in there's a group of supernatural enthusiasts and all of them claim to be a) abducted by aliens b) live in a haunted house or c) have convinced themselves that they get possessed by spirits they have contacted via Quija boards. I have worked as a professional psychic reader and have participated in scientific investigations of supposedly haunted places. I don't claim to know it all nor can I explain the mysteries of the universe and I'm as skeptical as you might not expect (considering my supplemental part time job as a reader). Yet I am so tired of ignorant people -- and that goes not just for the SP geeks, it goes for all stupid people. I hate switching on the news and listening to people's bullshit. I think everyone out there who wants to be on television should take a course on public speaking and brush up on reality.