Blindness

Characters Who Learn to See by Falling Into a World Without Sight

In “Blindness,”Fernando Meirelles’s adaptation of the novel by the Nobel laureate José Saramago, human civilization is threatened by a sudden and virulent outbreak of metaphor. As people go about their daily lives in an unidentified city (a brilliantly shot, digitally tweaked composite of Toronto, Tokyo and São Paulo), they begin, one by one, to lose their sight. No organic cause can be found for this condition, which manifests itself not as a descent into darkness but as a whiteout, as if the world had become a blank page, an empty screen or a puddle of milk. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (6049 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 3 Ottobre 2008