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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.
my stock is not doing too bad...if you have money, buy GNBT
Generex Biotechnology Corporation.
They are working on non invasive drug delivery methods...primarily insulin, but guess what, they are working on the avian flu vaccine.
now this is good news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4396898.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3422839.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2005/bird_flu/default.stm
3 months ago most people could have bought in at .60
now it hovers around 1.25
not bad. I was gonna pick some pics to post here, but my damned photobucket is acting up...
Scientists have genetically engineered tomato and tobacco plants to produce a vaccine against the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS
I cannot have a firm opinion either way merely because I do not believe I have enough knowledge or information on genetic modification or engineering and i don't think anyone does to be honest.
We can't know the long term effects of splicing the genes of one plant into another plant or animal - this kind of thing for instance. The far reaching impacts that people with only good intentions just cannot fathom when they start down paths such as these.
Just because we can do something does not mean we should.
I am a strong advocate for not messing with our food in non organic ways. I believe in less refining and processing etc. Things are getting far more complicated than they need to be.
What I believe in most is choice and I do not think that the average everyday folk is offered enough information to make informed choices about what they consume. I find generally people are extrememly apathetic and willing to put their nutritional requirements in the hands of people who have a primary agenda of making money and have no interest or knowledge about nutrition, food or the environment. Some might suggest this is a trust issue - people are comsumed with the daily grind of their 'busy' lives themselves and just trust that if a store sells something it must be safe. I say it is apathy.
Where GM/GE is concerned I do not think enough information is provided in an accurate non biased form.
Speaking of organics - ODDBOY came up with this pure GEM of a video from some Star Wars Fans. With my current star wars passion I could not have dreamed up a more perfect method of advocating organic produce!
Check out Store Wars
OK, I know this is going to offend some people, get over it. It is none-the-less true and I want to speak my mind.
Health Warning
The World Health Organisation today issued a new warning against non-essential travel to the entire Western Hemisphere, following renewed concerns about the spread of Severe Loss Of Perspective Syndrome (SLOPS).
Officials are warning travellers not to visit the UK, the US, almost all of Western Europe, Canada and Australia, following outbreaks of the disease, which has led to mass panic among the media, thousands of ecstatic children being kept out of school by their credulous and moronic parents and increased profits for DIY stores as the idiot public rush to bulk-buy face masks and plastic condom suits.
A WHO spokesman said, "You’d be better off going to somewhere like Taiwan or China or Uganda, because all you’ve got to worry about there is SARS or Ebola and let’s face it, you’re about as likely to die from that as you are from getting kicked to death by a gang of zombie nuns."
The SARS and Ebola variant viruses have now claimed a staggering 750 lives in only 2 years which makes it considerably more deadly than, say, malaria which kills around 3000 people every single day and 500,000 children under 5, every year. Malaria, however, mainly affects darkies what speak foreign, whereas SARS has made at least one English person feel a bit iffy for a couple of days and is therefore considered much more serious.
The spread of SLOPS has now reached pandemic proportions, with any high level politicians seemingly affected by the disease. The rapid spread of SLOPS has been linked to the end of the war in Iraq and the need for Western leaders to give the public something else to worry about. Otherwise, they might start asking uncomfortable questions about domestic issues and that would not do.