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Blindness [Blu-ray] (2012)

Danny Glover , Mark Ruffalo , Fernando Meirelles  |  R |  Blu-ray
2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Danny Glover, Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Sandra Oh
  • Directors: Fernando Meirelles
  • Format: Blu-ray, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: August 7, 2012
  • Run Time: 121 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B008D1RD4Y
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,784 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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From acclaimed director Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener) comes this extraordinarily intense and gritty thriller that will change your vision of the world forever.

Led by a powerful all-star cast featuring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover, this unflinching story begins when a plague of blindness strikes and threatens all of humanity. One woman (Moore) feigns the illness to share an uncertain fate in quarantine, where society is breaking down as fast as the crumbling surroundings. Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago—let Blindness lead you on a journey where the only thing more terrifying than being blind is being the only one who can see.

Special Feature(s): A Vision of Blindness: Making of Blindness Documentary; The Seeing Eye; Extra Scenes


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51 of 58 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome movie! October 31, 2009
Format:DVD
Wow, why does this have such a low rating on IMDB and why does so many people hate it? The only answer that I can come up with is that most of the people that hate it are teens that don't know the meaning of "plot hole". There's no plot hole in this movie. The fact that there's no explanation why people become blind is not a plot hole, it's just not an important detail. Saying that it's plot hole is just like saying that the fact there's no explanation why people become zombies in Dawn Of The Dead is a plot hole. It's not a plot hole, it's just not what the movie is about. It was intentionally not explained. Anyway, it's an awesome movie! It's not only entertaining, it's also sad, disturbing, powerful and I could go on and on and on! I'm pretty sure that it's the only movie that made me go from sad to disturbed to happy and to sad again!

Short review, I know, but I'm just not good at writting reviews. I just hope that it's atleast slightly helpful.
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Blind Bud July 29, 2009
By Vaun I.
Format:DVD
It is easy to understand why this film received such terrible reviews. "Blindness" is a very difficult film to swallow; it's largely unpleasant, cynical and even disgusting. But is this portrayal of humanity farfetched, a sloppy exaggeration of human beings' capacity for baseness? One need only look back in history to find the answer. In short, this is not a film which you emerge from feeling "warm and squishy", although if one makes it through the end that -may- be possible.

Many of the criticisms are aimed at the lack of plot development. But this would be like calling "The Ring" a terrible movie on the basis of its inadequacy in explaining how a girl can walk out of a television set. Or claiming that "Mrs. Doubtfire" was awful because Robin Williams' accent was actually Scottish and not English. There are films that are intended to petrify and others which amuse; the purpose of "Blindness" is neither. It is not a well-defined plot which drives this movie, but rather thematic elements and experimental imagery. With that in mind the cause of and solution to this epidemic blindness, the explanation behind the Doctor's Wife's immunity and answers to similar questions become irrelevant.

The realism of this film also comes into question, when it pertains to mass hysteria. The likelihood of these particular events seems as questionable as if nearly everyone adopted a code of altruism with the knowledge that blindness is now a highly contagious epidemic with no foreseeable cure. The sudden removal of sight does not promote calm. Which doctors and scientists would offer to conduct tests on the quarantined knowing that they could very well lose their sight as well and end up joining them? On speculation, the sudden loss of sight is not something easily and quickly adapted, and certainly not in the conditions portrayed in the movie.

There was also another controversy concerning several organizations for the blind having a negative view of this film. Again, this is understandable. However, the film was not merely about blindness as a physical disability, nor was its tagline: "All Blind People Are Evil". Instead blindness was used as a device with regards to mass hysteria and, of course, as a metaphor. Blindness as an affliction was inessential.

If we restrict films to only those which leave us immediately sated with contentment, then I think we have relegated film into a mere distraction and not also as a form of art. In doing so, our mirrors become unbalanced and realities warped.

We need the bitter to taste the sweet.
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Underrated and masterful July 31, 2009
Format:DVD
The Bottom Line:

Director Fernando Meirelles and his screenwriter Don McKellar actually improve on the source novel with this excellent and intelligent film that expertly portrays what Saramagos' "white blindness" might do to society and enlarges upon the allegorical themes of the book; inexplicably reviled by most critics and a film that some seem to find sordid, Blindness was one of the best and most thought-provoking movies of 2008.

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1.0 out of 5 stars This movie sucks
I should of seen the rating and looked up reviews. While the movie's intention is good there is a lot of nudity and so many more inappropriate things.
Published 1 month ago by Cynthia Garcia
5.0 out of 5 stars please
i was please with dvd,the picture was clear,sound good&the movie was great&you cant beat the price,so i am very please
Published 2 months ago by Duwana
1.0 out of 5 stars awful
THIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST NAUSEATING MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY AH AH AH A
Published 2 months ago by amanda
4.0 out of 5 stars Another movie with a very good cast, but...
Perhaps its just me, but I've had a streak lately of movie rentals that have had amazing casts but the movie fell short in my opinion. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Neal
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring
Yes I was bored. There are those who say the film is vile but I wasn't disgusted, it didn't leave me depressed, it did nothing but leave me feeling indifferent (the worse possible... Read more
Published 3 months ago by singer
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good movie.
This movie is extremely well directed and acted, and because of this the story is very believable. The movie, to me, is a very heart warming and believable depiction of people... Read more
Published 3 months ago by William R. Smith
1.0 out of 5 stars Blindness - depressing
The book was gory but kept my interest. The movie, however, was horrible. It was very much filled with violence, nakedness, despair, darkness. It was hard to see. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Elena M. Ghilani
5.0 out of 5 stars A must see!
I read all the negative reviews but decided to order anyway... I couldn't find the plot hole people were talking about. Read more
Published 5 months ago by souppa
3.0 out of 5 stars Meh,, could have done better
Wow, this movie started off pretty good, then ended getting worst and worst. I understand that the budget might have been low, but that doesn't excuse bad writing. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Richard J. Andrews Jr.
2.0 out of 5 stars In the kingdom of the blind....
I hated it for one reason, stated below. This may be a huge spoiler to anyone determined to watch it, however. Read more
Published 5 months ago by carol irvin
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