good

Loved the book, and it tried to capture the viciousness and mean spirtedness of the human race. For the most part it works.

Aplicando ao máximo seu tino para experimentos com fotografia e edição (burilando agora com o som), Meirelles ousou. Falhou em arrebanhar o público e a crítica pelo exato motivo que faz desta colérica adaptação um corpo estranho em meio a um mercado saturado de narrativas comodamente condescendentes para com ao público: o compromisso em manter intacta a natureza amarga do material adaptado.

Premise was interesting, acting was great, but somewhere in the middle I seem to have lost my willingness to think of this film was one of the best I have seen. Starts off strong, no explanation mass confusion. Slowly is becomes a film about sticking together, about relying on each other. Then even slower it becomes a film about divided moral, a fight for survival and learning to find yourself. And in the end it all reverts back to what it was. Ending was horrible, stop it with 10 minutes left.

I officially hate everything julianne moore now because of this movie. (spoilers) She has ALL the ability to do what noone else can, she can see amongst dozens of blind people and yet she never does anything until she has already led a bunch of women to get raped, herself included and one got killed, then when she does retaliate SHE LEAVES THE FUCKING GUN WITH THE BAD GUYS. fuck this movie. I hate julianne moore.

"It's too easy a joke to say that Blindness lacks vision; more accurate to say that it lacks control, lucidity and humanity, the last being a particularly calamitous absence in a film about civilization in crisis." - Fernando F. Croce

other face of the humanity, a real drama...

In a kingdom of blind it is too long.

Interesting concept, but poorly executed. There is *very* little tension early on in the movie, and while there is conflict later in the film, it consists not of the afflicted trying to deal with their blindness but of one group of quarantined trying to dominate the others through force and intimidation. Much of the early dialogue is sloppily expository, the last 30 minutes are all anticlimax, and the tacked-on happy ending is a complete ass-pull.

Most interesting.

Gael Garcia Bernal is wasted. Also, incredibly stupid writing and bad directing. The blind characters actually acted deaf at times :|

Fernando Meirelles did a longshot and I'm still not sure if he achieved his goal. I had low expectations and it was interesting and sometimes entertaining watching something I had read coming alive. But that's basically it... It has its value for not going for a much different approach than the book, though

Not sure what was the point of the whole thing. Interesting, and even gripping at time, but without point