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.
- The already blind will manipulate the new blind.
- 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
- The government doesn’t care about you if you become inconvenient
- 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.
Which is worse – Grief or Guilt?
This film looks at this dilema in depth. Gritty looks at how grief can rip a family apart. The voyeuristic insight of watching a man become consumed by guilt and finally coming to the conclusion that he must pay for his crime.
This film is heavy, there isn’t a laugh in the entire 102 minutes. The story is good, the acting is great, the experience of watching is a bit exhausting.
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On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello – beautifully, as usual. His younger sister looks up to him, and his parents are proud of their son. On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road. There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from them forever. On a warm September evening, law associate Dwight Arno and his 11-year-old son Lucas are attending a baseball game. Their favorite team, the Red Sox, is playing – and, hopefully, heading for the World Series. Dwight cherishes his time spent with Lucas. Driving his son back to his ex-wife, Lucas’ mother Ruth Wheldon, Dwight heads towards his fateful encounter at Reservation Road. The accident happens so fast that Lucas is all but unaware, while Ethan – the only witness – is all too aware, as a panicked Dwight speeds away. The police are called, and an investigation begins. Haunted by the tragedy, both fathers react in unexpected ways, as do Grace and Emma. As a reckoning looms, the two fathers are forced to make the hardest choices of their lives.
Jake Gyllenhall plays a writer obsessed with the Zodiac Killer in California. The movie was good. Great cast. Full of “I know that guy” actors. It was just way too long. This movie was over 2.5 hours from opening to closing credits. It could have been 2 max.
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Robert Graysmith is a cartoonist who works for the San Francisco Chronicle. His quirky ways irritate Paul Avery, a reporter whose drinking gets in the way of doing his job. The two become friends thanks to a shared interest: the Zodiac killer. Graysmith steadily becomes obsessed with the case, as Avery’s life spirals into drunken oblivion. Graysmith’s amateur sleuthing puts him onto the path of David Toschi, a police inspector who has thus far failed to catch his man; Sherwood Morrill, a handwriting expert; Linda del Buono, a convict who knew one of the Zodiac’s victims; and others. Graysmith’s job, his wife and his children all become unimportant next to the one thing that really matters: catching the Zodiac.
Jude Law’s accent slips between southern, cajun, and something from the UK area of the world. Sean Penn dives in to the part. If someone gets shot point blank 5 times in the chest, is there really time for a pondering death scene?
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Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
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A young woman goes in search of her midlife crisis suffering husband who left her.
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Famous 70′s NYC nightclub seen and told through the eyes of a young employee.
Worst movie we watched in 2007.
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From a bland tract house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Simon Geist (with occasional help from his platonic girlfriend Darla) wages war against all of modern American popular culture. Geist starts up a magazine called “The Next Big Thing”, which he uses to confront and insult upcoming actors, comics, models and rock bands.
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Jennifer Aniston plays a woman who learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and film “The Graduate” — and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.
