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One Of Our Spies Has Laid Eyes On Meirelles’s BLINDNESS!

zzzzzzzzzzzzz, first, and last probably by classyfredblassy	Feb 15th, 2008 06:47:59 AM
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Mark Ruffalo should get more by travis-dane	Feb 15th, 2008 06:48:22 AM
leading roles.Good actor.
Saramago by Stranamore	Feb 15th, 2008 06:53:09 AM
I don't think it was mentioned, but this is based on the novel by Jose Saramago, which is very powerful and which I recommend to all.
Fuck City of God, where's the Elite Squad review by Massa? by ricarleite	Feb 15th, 2008 07:19:45 AM
Did you know Meirelle's direction notes were stolen, and he had to make a sub-par movie (on his opinion) due to it? Who knows how this would turn out if it wasn't for this incident. This movie's gonna be very interesting, though, but I steel feel it should have been filmed in portuguese. I mean, a Portuguese book being filmed by a Brazilian director...
Concordo contigo ricarleite by thxMike	Feb 15th, 2008 07:59:08 AM
But then even less people would watch it.
Attack of The Danny Glover Narration Track! by Spandau Belly	Feb 15th, 2008 08:29:33 AM
Man, I hate narration. If you, as a filmmaker, have visuals, motion, sound, dialogue, and music but still require a guy point blank telling the audience what's going on, then you are not a good storyteller.
This is obviously an anti-mastibation movie by IAmMrMonkey!	Feb 15th, 2008 10:09:56 AM
"See? We told you that you'd all go blind if you kept doing that and...hey, look. You have."
thxMike by ricarleite	Feb 15th, 2008 10:31:31 AM
They could do it on both languages, like Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, which was filmed both in German and English. Massa, review Elite Squad NOW!
I'd give my right eye to see this by Knockout Ned	Feb 15th, 2008 10:58:11 AM
and my left eye too actually
A more accurate synopsis... (spoilers same as article) by aversiontherapy2	Feb 15th, 2008 11:14:34 AM
As people start to go blind for no reason the government panics and puts all the blind people and all the people who they know have come in contact with them in an old asylum and surround it with soldiers. At first the two sides are blind and not blind (inc the doctor's not blind wife), but everyone in the asylum goes blind and the government is putting more and more people into the building. As it becomes over-crowded and conditions degenerate, that's when a 'evil' side rises up and tries to control the food being given to them each day by the government. Eventually the food stops coming and the the Doctor's wife's group leave to find everyone in the city is blind.
might be one of the best books i've ever read. by occula	Feb 15th, 2008 11:35:10 AM
node is right, this book is brutal. kind of like mccarthy, you have to accept the narrative as being bewildering and unusual, but it is exquisite.
What the hell ever happened to Walter Salles? by Knuckleduster	Feb 15th, 2008 12:44:33 PM
Last movie of his I saw was Dark Water (ugh). Good to hear Meirelles is keeping up the good work. Hope he doesn't do that Jack Ryan movie.
Knuckleduster by ricarleite	Feb 15th, 2008 12:51:30 PM
He did The motorcycle diaries, and got some problems with his next productions, which were delayed.
Seems to be alright with the book by The Chosen	Feb 15th, 2008 01:39:04 PM
The Book by Saramago is a very sufocating tale of sorrow and suspense. And the movie, so far, seems to be very well adapted.
Yeah, loved The Motorcycle Diaries. by Knuckleduster	Feb 15th, 2008 01:40:49 PM
I think he did a segment for Paris, je t'aime as well. Just hope he stays away from Hollywood. Doesn't really seem like his kinda scene, judging by the way Dark Water turned out.
Nice plot description. by Tourist	Feb 15th, 2008 01:54:15 PM
Good book, Good Director, Good Cast and interesting premise. Cant wait.
It's Diary of... by rost	Feb 15th, 2008 03:48:13 PM
...the blind; come on men, some new ideas!
At what point do the Triffids attack? by The_Deathticle	Feb 15th, 2008 04:22:47 PM
Kidding. Sounds interesting. I love me that Twilight Zone kind of "What If" stuff.
Node32774 - oops by aversiontherapy2	Feb 15th, 2008 04:37:27 PM
Yeah :) I meant to put the parenthesize after the blind group not the not blind group.
Seeing by aversiontherapy2	Feb 15th, 2008 04:38:22 PM
Is also a great book btw. The two make a nice pair :)
Dark dark stuff by maxwell's hammer	Feb 15th, 2008 06:22:10 PM
The book goes to some very dark places, and I hope the movie doesn't water any of that down. The sequel, 'Seeing', utilizes some of the same characters and goes in a completely different direction, but is also disturbing in its own way. Someone should ask Sick Fixx if he's read these. I hear he's extraordinarily literate.
CAN'T WAIT by WhatsntheBox	Feb 15th, 2008 08:08:30 PM
Fernando Meirelles is in the top 5 working directors today, as far as I'm concerned... The guy is a genius.
BLINDNESS, the novel by LoneGun	Feb 16th, 2008 12:49:27 AM
Let me just echo the observations here that the book was very, very powerful. I am curious to see just how this has been adapted to the screen. The imagery detailed in the novel is grim to say the least.
Rape Scenes by a_loco	Feb 16th, 2008 11:00:58 AM
Some of my friends went to a test screening of this. Apparently like half the theatre walked out during a gang rape scene.
Re: Rape Scenes by kickpunchjump	Feb 17th, 2008 08:18:18 PM
I was at the screening. I tried counting people leaving, but was on the far left and a fair ways from the back. So from the front / left, about 15 people walked out. A lot of people were saying they only stayed to fill out the surveys afterward. It's safe to say 10-15% of the audience left. That said: I think part of it was that people didn't know what they were getting into. I'd read the book, and I invited two people who'd done the same. They both turned me down because they knew it would be too brutal / intense and weren't up for it that night. I thought the movie was most of the way there. My main problem was that the segment of the film that includes the rape scenes, the part that is genuinely horrifying (and that needs to be), goes on for so long that any redemption that comes after seemed too sudden. A full third of the book takes place after they leave the asylum and builds up to the ending. I wasn't timing it or anything, but it seemed to happen too quickly on film. So yeah, gut-wrenching to say the least. And the narration isn't great. (It's never clear why his character should be the narrative centre of the story.) I'll be curious to see how much changes between now and release.

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