Blindness DVD Review

What if people started going inexplicably blind? That is the question posed in the film Blindness, and lets just say the answer is disturbing, frightening and, quite possibly, true.

The first person struck by the blindness is a Japanese man (Yusuke Iseya), who says its “like all the lights have been switched on at once, creating an expanse of white where the world used to be – like swimming in milk.” He is patient zero, and from there, the infection spreads to the people that were at the optometrist’s office he visited, and so on, and so on. The optometrist (Mark Ruffalo) is struck blind and taken into a government quarantine, and his wife (Julianne Moore) goes with him, even though she can still see (she pretends to be blind as well when she picks up on the fact that if she doesn’t, the government wont let her stay with him).

The doctors patients are soon brought in as well, including a prostitute (Alice Braga of I Am Legend), a little boy (Mitchell Nye), and a man with an eye patch (Danny Glover of Be Kind Rewind, and Dreamgirls). Doctor tries to maintain order, and at first they forge a decent existence under the circumstances.
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