Blindness Page #3

Synopsis: A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is, however, one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Fernando Meirelles
Production: Miramax
  15 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
R
Year:
2008
121 min
$3,073,392
Website
595 Views


please?

One

Must be joking.

Two.

This is crazy.

We want to talk to his superior.

That will not work.

Three. I will shoot you in hell!

Come on!

This is ridiculous.

Forget it.

I can not believe this is happening.

Each room has a phone to

communicate with the outside world.

The phone is only for cases of emergency.

Want to drink?

Coffee?

You have coffee here?

I do not know, we need a table.

I have a wringer of fruit.

Does anyone have a knife?

I have a knife.

Want to use my?

And you?

We can divide.

There was a girl who appeared to be in

raped because they screamed a lot.

I was naked, only with glasses.

Naked?

Yes, I leave a message.

My message is because there are a number

Emergency if no one answer.

We have a problem in the bedroom of the blind.

Obviously they were neglected

because we do not have enough food.

Also keep the request I made yesterday

to send us a first-aid kit.

I hope you receive this message

before dinner.

Number five, security guard

a hotel.

Number six, engineer.

I am a receptionist in ophthalmology.

I know his voice.

My God! Where are you?

Here, here.

I forgot to say "seven".

All right?

Need help?

No, I did.

First, we will welcome

for newly arrived.

You have some things I want to discuss.

Now we have an online guide to the

connect with all rooms ...

... through the intervention of my wife.

There is another question, the restrooms.

They are simply disgusting.

I need a group of people who

offer you clean them.

I like to feel the heat in the face.

The aroma as well.

I liked ...

Remember the New Year we were

the church?

There were many people waiting in line.

It was getting cold.

The ceremonial fire ...

... was well near the line.

When we approach ...

... if heated our bodies,

on the one hand ...

... was nice.

Neither knew the law ...

I do not want to hear.

I do not want to hear.

Why?

I can not pretend.

You do not have soap.

I believe it is better than nothing.

Did you hear that?

What?

Hi

Hi

Actually has an extra beer?

I have a radio.

There are so many stations as before.

But if Insite, do every day.

I tell how everything is out there.

Please.

In the first 24 Hotas had hundreds

Case, said a second woman.

All were equal and without pain.

A sea of white.

As I know, the government's response

was decisive.

He declared the country in quarantine.

But that has not prevented us from harness

an opportunity.

We did an international conference

several ophthalmologists and neurologists.

Not if we know that ...

And for days worried about people ...

... we have been subjected to seminars and

endless meetings ...

... with experts from around the world,

which confirmed the general impasse.

We must prevent that disease

become contagious globally.

It was too early to talk about cures

when they did ...

... so many investigations and

complete the work.

That conclusion pointed

the medical industry.

My God, I'm getting blind.

My God!

Help me, help me, please!

The weeks have passed and each time they

arose new victims ...

... the city unaware, omitting the

evidence ...

... in all places where the disease

was immune to bureaucracy.

And the streets and the traffic?

A chaos, as always.

But then came news of a

bus accident that caused 24 deaths.

That same day two planes collided.

I could not tell the truth, that this disease

had caused all these accidents.

But people were terrorized.

Any sign of panic, caused the blindness.

Or the blindness caused the panic.

The deaths have multiplied.

People decided not to leave their homes.

And the problems are resolved in transit.

Citizens, friends, as

many of you ...

... I was blind.

Maybe we need a bit of music.

Ladies and gentlemen, I need you

follow my voice.

Care.

No rush.

Number 12:

Anyone who try to flee the site,

will apply extreme measures.

No.

With licea sir.

Can you please guide?

Stay in line.

Stay in the queue boy.

Hello?

Excuse me sir,

we need a guide, please.

Attention, the man who asked is in the courtyard.

Choose a person to come

get it.

A person.

Where is she?

Once in front. Come here.

That, is doing fine.

Keep walking.

Warm, warm, still warm.

Cold. Stop!

Turn to your right.

Straight ahead.

Warm, warm. Cold. Stop.

Turn deireita again.

That's good, very good. Straight ahead.

Well warm, warm.

Cold, cold.

Stop, stop. Cold.

Did you see that?

Sergeant, saw that?

Will be completely blind or dead

soon.

Hello, quarter three.

Today collect the bodies that

are trees in the courtyard.

I think the best solution is that each

take a fourth body, are rotated ...

... the only man to us and bury

its own quota of deaths.

What do you mean by quota?

They are not ours.

Yes, but some probably came

for that quarter.

Once we have rejected his own.

Like me.

Our room is crowded.

Here too.

Okay, then we are all the same

position, no?

Listen, I do not want to discuss, I just want to

that burying them ...

... and I think that just grab each quarter

a body ...

... so work will be faster.

All right?

Great.

There is also the question of

rationing of food.

It seems that one of the rooms are getting

more than corresponds to them ...

so that we create a kind

the committee ...

... with representatives of each quarter e. ..

Who the hell are you?

Who the hell are you?

Excuse me?

Yes, anyone who thinks it is ...

... give as many orders?

I am the elected representative of a fourth.

And I suggest that you choose to

or choose ...

... to discuss it.

In other words, they want to talk to our leaders.

That's right.

As a diplomatic mission to negotiate.

Well, here we have a system

monarchic ...

... and I declare King's fourth three.

Long live King!

Any objections?

And before finishing the day, I declare that

everyone in the room three, eat ...

... before we start thinking about

bury dead.

So eat, eat, do not worry.

You can not sleep well. You are dirty.

Give me your clothes.

Tomorrow I wash.

Sleep.

How are you?

You know how it is.

You have to see to believe.

I can not do anything.

All right, all right.

Look a little sleep.

You're too hot.

I know that you can see.

No, not you. Why does it?

Believe me, you should tell the truth.

You can not trust a thief, right?

I have a secret:
I'm very smart.

And being blind makes me think better.

I do not know how to help.

Thank you.

Sorry to be a burden.

Do not stand that.

Come to sleep.

What time is it?

What? What?

You lost your vision?

I forgot to wind the clock.

That pain.

Hey.

Did you hear that?

I will take a look.

What the hell is that?

Damn!

You saw what it was?

Blood, blood there, come back.

The sergeant will kill me.

Is this direction?

Yes

He told me he knew why ...

I said and did nothing.

I could not do anything.

Would that count.

And then? Everything would be more difficult.

I can with it.

I'm not talking about you.

I speak of us, us.

What?

You get dressed, gives me bath, clean the

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Don McKellar

Don McKellar (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. more…

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