Epidemic renders characters blind in apocalyptic film It seems as though Fernando Meirelles lost his creative sight making the lack-luster film "Blindness.""Blindness",/a> The director, whose most famous works include "City of God" and "The Constant Gardener," guided this interesting take on a new type of epidemic into a film that needed more then what was delivered. The movie, an adaptation of the novel written by Portuguese Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, is a close match to an apocalyptic-type world. However, instead of movies such as "I Am Legend" or "28 Days Later," the message does not come across clear. The movie begins with an epidemic of blindness, which leaves its victims seeing only white. This results in the people in the unnamed city breaking into a state of panic. The infected are quickly quarantined into an...
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