Class Discussion on Blindness: The Movie

I really enjoyed this movie. It helped me put bits and pieces together to understand parts of the novel I was questionable about. I noticed the different strategies the director used when producing the film. For example, when people began to go blind a bell would ring. When the fist blind man went blind a bell rang. When all the government officials at the conference went blind a bell rang continuously to represent the bunch of people being plagued with this sea of whiteness. I also noticed how in the end of the movie, when the first blind man regained his eyesight, the camera was in his point of view. The camera started off with a blurry whiteness that began to fade and produce a clearer picture to represent him regaining his eyesight. But in certain parts of the film, scenes would open up with a blurry whiteness. Some scenes would stay blurry depending on whose point of view it is in. In scenes where it was in the wife's point of view, it would begin blurry but it would become clearer. To me, I feel like most of the movie was in the wife's point of view because she was the only who could see. Most scenes couldn't be in one of the blind characters point o f view because they couldn't see and there wouldn't be much of a story to tell. In the end, I interpreted that the dog symbolized a hope for life. Everyone and everything was hanging by a thread but once the dog came around, everything changed and things became better. Like the first blind man regaining their eyesight, the group finding food and shelter.