If you're into reading books, I'd suggest picking José Saramago's novel and reading it instead of watching this. Blindness is a must-read in my book for any book-reading person, but this movie.... it isn't, forgive the pun, a must-see. It ain't bad but it ain't Saramago.

Fernando Meirelles is a great director, no doubt about it. Blindness is a philosophical masterpiece where the blind are those who see and those who see are blind. Unbelievable plot, outstanding actors.

From a novel of one of the best writer ever - José Saramago. Good movie, even if not so great as the novel, but it can be an impossible task.

I went into *Blindness* with fairly low expectations because of its general reputation, but I ended up liking it a lot. I think blindness works very well as the central idea of the story, and it did not need any further explanation. What really mattered was seeing how it affected society and how far people could go when rules, order, and basic security disappeared. The doctor’s wife was one of the strongest parts of the film for me because her decisions felt genuinely human. It is easy to say from the outside that she should have acted sooner, but she knew that crossing that line would change everything. I liked that the film did not portray her as someone who always knew what to do, but as a person facing an extremely difficult situation. The most disturbing part was the exchange of women for food. It was brutal and very effective without needing to exaggerate the horror. I also thought the emotional development of the characters worked well, and the fact that they had no names did not create any distance for me. The film could have been a little shorter, and some of the darker scenes could have been handled better visually. Even so, I really liked what it had to say about power, fear, and the collapse of society. I did not need an explanation for the blindness or a solution to every mystery, because the human consequences were always the real focus.

I’m here because I read a favorable review comparing this movie to Children of Men (2008) which also stars Julianne Moore and I’m a fan of contagion / pandemic / dystopian stories. This story is apolitical, it explores the frailty of humanity, its dark side and questions whether we have built the right thing.