Blindness

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Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. Two different police officers escort the car-thief and the girl with the dark glasses back to their respective homes.

Reluctant to let "a violent book about social degradation, rape" fall into the wrong hands, he refused many offers. The foundation's director is Saramago's wife of 20 years, Pilar del Rio, a journalist who is now his Spanish translator. average out of 4, placing the film on the lower-tier of all the films screened at competition in 2008. She seemingly contracted the “white-blindness” while visiting the doctor due to conjunctivitis (hence the dark glasses). The car-thief starts groping the girl with the glasses, who indignantly kicks him in the leg with her high heels.The car-thief’s wound is badly infected, and the doctor and his wife beg the soldiers for medicine, but they refuse. The doctor and his wife invite their new "family" to their apartment, where they establish a mutually supportive long-term home. Saramago explained, "I always resisted because it's a violent book about social degradation, rape, and I didn't want it to fall into the wrong hands. The rumbling sound design by Ben and Max Ringham – the brothers behind last year’s creepy Berberian Sound Studio – creates a constant, aching tension.

Meirelles ascribed the problem to a rape scene that takes place partway through the film, and edited the scene to be much shorter in the final cut.Blindness ( Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. Weaving together memories of his Portuguese childhood, Nobel Prize–winner Saramago (1922–2010) presents a lyrical portrait of the artist as a young man. There's something charming about his desperation because, after a point, you meet the King of Ward Three and learn what real desperation is. The scenes that follow are extremely unpleasant to read, but at the same time they’re so realistic that you I did feel like this character was very much like Saramago because he is completely unapologetic—he is who he is and he accepts who he is.

She now closed [the door] carefully behind her only to find herself plunged into total darkness, as sightless as those blind people out there, the only difference was in the colour, if black and white can, strictly speaking, be thought of as colours. More patients arrive, including the first blind man’s wife and various minor characters who have briefly interacted with the protagonists (like the taxi-driver who drove the first blind man and his wife to the doctor).

Saramago emphasizes that narratives can function as survival mechanisms and help people achieve freedom from oppression.