Friday
04Jul2008
Get an Eyeful of the New 'Blindness' Posters
Friday, July 4, 2008 at 4:26PM
I've been tracking the progress of
Blindness since word first broke that
Fernando Meirelles would adapt the Jose
Saramago novel. I think in today's movie climate, we might look at this is as
somehow being similar to Children of Men or even The Happening
because of the imprint the natural world makes on its citizens, and in this
case, our fair city populated by the likes of
Mark Ruffalo,
Julianne Moore,
Gael Garcia Bernal,
Danny Glover, and
Alice Braga. We like to do that: "Oh, it's just
like (movie that came out four months ago)."
Of course, the novel goes back a dozen years or so,
which means that if you were making that leap, you'd probably be more justified
drawing a parallel between this story and, say, The Trigger Effect, about
a massive west coast blackout creating havoc for a world that doesn't know how
to function without electricity. The inciting occurrence in Blindness is
exactly that, an unexplained pandemic of "white blindness" and all of humanity
just goes nuts. That's not an unlikely effect for that cause.
Julianne Moore, though, doesn't lose her sight, so
without acknowledging that she can still see, she accompanies her husband, a
blinded Ruffalo, to the hospital where his kind is being quarantined. Then they
break out of the hospital to find that their city, as Chrissy Hynde once so
poignantly said in song, was gone.
So while I hope this is good and I really like the major
players, it could be a lot like The Happening, I guess. Let's hope not,
but there is that possibility. I think we'll see a lot of comparisons to Night
Shyamalan's latest if the general reaction to Blindness was as so-so as
the Cannes reaction.
We do have some new posters, a day after we had the new
trailer, and I just have to say, Photoshop is an amazing product. Look at the
black-and-white contrast here. That's very solid.
Reader Comments (1)
those posters are great. the titles representing each characters moral ambiguity.