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Blindness (2008) -- This is the second trailer for Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles.
Blindness (2008) -- Clip: Acting like children, post
Blindness (2008) -- This is the teaser trailer for Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles.
Blindness (2008) -- A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down...
Blindness (2008) -- 90 percent of the world's population is inexplicably struck by Blindness

Overview

User Rating:
6.8/10   17,113 votes
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Director:
Fernando Meirelles
Writers:
José Saramago (novel)
Don McKellar (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
3 October 2008 (USA) more
Tagline:
Lust is blind. more
Plot:
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
12 wins & 13 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(118 articles)
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User Comments:
Personality Does Not Depend On Senses more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Yusuke Iseya ... First Blind Man
Jason Bermingham ... Driver #1

Eduardo Semerjian ... Concerned Pedestrian #1
Don McKellar ... Thief
Ciça Meirelles ... Driver #2
Antônio Fragoso ... Concerned Pedestrian #2
Lilian Blanc ... Concerned Pedestrian #3
Douglas Silva ... Onlooker #1
Daniel Zettel ... Onlooker #2
Yoshino Kimura ... First Blind Man's Wife

Joe Pingue ... Taxi Driver
Susan Coyne ... Receptionist

Danny Glover ... Man with the Black Eye Patch
Fabiana Guglielmetti ... Mother of the Boy (as Fabiana Gugli)
Mitchell Nye ... Boy
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Blindness (Japan: English title)
Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira (Brazil)
L'aveuglement (Canada: French title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity.
Runtime:
121 min
Country:
Canada | Brazil | Japan
Language:
English | Japanese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Guelph, Ontario, Canada more
Company:
Rhombus Media more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Yusuke Iseya wrote some of the Japanese dialogue. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When the first blind man arrives home, he says he lives on the 14th floor. After his wife arrives you can see some trees through the kitchen window. Those trees should not be there. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
First Blind Man: I'm blind.
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FAQ

Why wasn't Julianne Moore's character affected by the blindness?
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14 out of 25 people found the following comment useful:-
Personality Does Not Depend On Senses, 20 February 2009
10/10
Author: cabartha from Turkey

For some people, some of the movies are more expressive than the others. I could give this movie 8 or 9 stars, but this one is a definite expressive one for me. The story telling and the characters of the movie, which have been fit correctly to the playing actors/actresses, make this picture a MUST SEE. Well, what I started to think after watching this movie is : How would be my life if I was a blind or a deaf or a dumb person and would I be a different guy without the senses I have. I believe that people can give shape to their own personality, but the personality's origin comes from birth and nothing can change it's base and essence. Maybe most of the audiences are going to criticize this one in a different way but all of the people who watch this one will pick up a role and put him/herself to the character's place, that's for sure. Because this picture is telling who we are, what kind of a species we are and the sides of life that we hide from ourselves or the feelings what we don't want to accept/have. Highly recommended if you look for a stylish and "make me think about" movie!

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Enjoyable, but a big plot hole (Spoilers) Mugros
WORSE FILM EVER. NO EXAGGERATION p-gnicholas
Started out terrible and ended up...actually i don't know cause i couldn rivcogent
plot gngral23
Did Julianne Moore go blind at the end? And other thoughts aswearengen
Underrated -- very strong depiction (spoilers) b-loc
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