Blindness: The Movie

My thoughts on the movie, Blindness, are that it really exposes you to the thought of "what if". What if we went all blind? What would happen? A particular scene in the movie really struck me as odd, where there was a Benz lying in the street, and a few other luxurious cars, just abandoned and left in the street. Stores were deserted, the supermarket was filled with people as everyone was trying to get food or other provisions. It really shows that people rely on their sight to judge and value different objects. Another example of this would be where the dogs, who are normally regarded as "Man's Best Friend", were eating a dead man, in broad daylight.

Also, since I've watched a similar movie like this, where men were paid to be prisoners and others were paid to be the warden/officers in a simulated prison where everyone felt like they were equals. It ended up going in a similar fashion. At the beginning, everything went smooth. Then, the nice/seemingly nice person started to take advantage and it just brings chaos into the fray. It shows and generalizes that the nature of people can change instantly and no one will just continuously remain the same. Full personalities will be revealed to everyone as there is no reason to hide it. Society today trumps the nature values of people, this is shown in cars, clothes, and other so called "valuable items". The movie and the book, Blindness, shows the theory of what would happen if people started going blind and if the "illness" was in fact contagious.

There were two shorthanded moves that both the movie and the book threw at readers, which are the doctor's wife never losing her sight and the already blind man being taken into the blind ward. I believe this was done to encase the foreign concepts one might not foresee to bring about more possible continuations of the movie/book. When you read or watch them entirely, your own concepts are disregarded as they've already been set but as I stated before, it really just adheres to the thought of "what if".