Recently I was able to view part of the movie Blindness and thought it would be beneficial to share some of the lines that were in the movie that I thought were interesting. In the first scene of the movie on individual becomes blind while driving in his car. He seems scared so he does not continue driving. Other people notice and thankfully a few men come over and ask him what is the matter. He replies that he has become blind. He says he just wants to go to his apartment and his wife can help him. The men's commentary is quite interesting. One volunteers to take him there. As the man who has just become blind is stepping out of his car he hits his head, one man says, "Careful, take care of him, watch him, he can't see." It is like he went from being a fully functioning adult to a child who is unable to do things like walk on the street alone. The man that is driving him asks him if he can still hear, and tells him to say something if he needs anything. I also thought it was interesting it shows what the blind man is seeing. He describes it as "swimming in milk". Then things go blurry, almost like the audience is also blind, but then they focus back in again. The "helper" of the blind man announces to bypassers "He is blind! He can't see" I thought this was also interesting. The blind man says to his wife that he would rather die than stay like this. He tells his wife that he can see nothing at all and she tells him to try harder. A doctor tells him they will try and fix this. There is a lot of the blurry effects and then the camera sees to come into focus.
Overall it seemed like blindness was this strange science fiction idea, like a strange plague coming over different people rather than something that individuals have and still continue to be fully functioning. In my opinion, it is interesting that when I see someone who is blind I know they do not want or expect me to feel sorry for them but this movie portrays that being blind is the worst thing that could happen, especially when the character says he would rather be dead than blind. Yet there is an entire community of blind individuals that are happy, healthy, and a part of our communities.
I didn't have time to watch the entire movie but thought I would share the part in which I did see and my reactions to that. I didn't really have much interest in watching the rest of this film.