Meirelles's Blindness not so visionary
Director Fernando Meirelles's portrayal of these scenes is compelling. But together, they pile on the desolation to the point of incredulity.
Halfway through the film, Meirelles introduces Danny Glover as Man with the Black Eye Patch to serve as a narrator. It is insulting to suggest that, now that Meirelles has provided us with so many moral conundrums, we need someone on-screen to think for us. Glover's performance is lackluster anyway, and the one possibility of depth - his romance with a young, sexy woman that seems to depend on their mutual blindness - is not resolved or explored by the film's end.
Although deserving of criticism, we will not go so far as to spoil the ending. However, in light of the bleakness of the film via a two-hour buildup of apocalypse, the Hollywood ending is so abrupt, unexpected and disappointing that one truly expects it to be a dream sequence.
Blindness makes an earnest effort to be a gut-wrenching film that will make us consider the demon within. Instead, it ends up just being gut wrenching, and makes us consider what exactly this otherwise acclaimed director was thinking.
Halfway through the film, Meirelles introduces Danny Glover as Man with the Black Eye Patch to serve as a narrator. It is insulting to suggest that, now that Meirelles has provided us with so many moral conundrums, we need someone on-screen to think for us. Glover's performance is lackluster anyway, and the one possibility of depth - his romance with a young, sexy woman that seems to depend on their mutual blindness - is not resolved or explored by the film's end.
Although deserving of criticism, we will not go so far as to spoil the ending. However, in light of the bleakness of the film via a two-hour buildup of apocalypse, the Hollywood ending is so abrupt, unexpected and disappointing that one truly expects it to be a dream sequence.
Blindness makes an earnest effort to be a gut-wrenching film that will make us consider the demon within. Instead, it ends up just being gut wrenching, and makes us consider what exactly this otherwise acclaimed director was thinking.
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