When you have talented people behind a movie like 'Blindness' it really makes you want to see the film, after all the director of the film, Fernando Meirelles, also made the captivating yet strangely boring 'The Constant Gardener.' Meirelles knows how to shoot a movie and make it visually appealing for the audience, yet the dude still hasn't quite figured out how to make a full-length feature. Anytime you have Julianne Moore (think Todd Haynes 'Safe') you know she'll deliver. However, Meirelles doesn't deliver her a story worthy of her acting chops.
The opening of the film is by far and away some of the best 20-30 minutes ever shot on film in the last 10 years. You are in the hands of a director who's grasping all the thriller elements as people everywhere start to slowly go blind. Then the movie turns into a prison flick of blind people as a small select few are held against their will and try to figure out survival in captivity amongst crooks. Yet the second and third acts of 'Blindness' are more an excuse for Meirelles to use a form of masturbatory exposition as we wait for something...anything to happen.
The conclusion of the flick is equally disappointing as there really is no closure to this film and after taking the 2 + hour journey thru some cool visually whited out sequences, it ends up more of a rip-off than a nifty open-to-interpretation sci-fi ending Meirelles was intending.
Final Thought:
I like nudity along with interesting concepts, yet not even those two enticing elements can keep this film afloat as the picture struggles to find a tone.
Dobler Rating: C-
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1 comments:
Blindness is a nice refreshment in the niche of apocalyptic movies. Plot is intriguing, characters are well developed. We see how people can turn into the different persons in special situation.
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