Movies We Watch

The world is struck by an epidemic that causes almost everyone to go blind when they come into contact with someone suffering from blindness.

This was obviously trying to make some deep political statement, but I am not sure what it was.

1. The already blind will manipulate the new blind.
2. If you are immune it is better to lie about it to the government that possibly be the source of a cure as long as you are helping 10 random people and your husband
3. The government doesn’t care about you if you become inconvenient
4. All problems are temporary and will just go away on their own

This film was ok, but too preachy and disconnected for me to enjoy the chaos that ensues.

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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, hording 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.