A movie called Blindness that's about everyone in the world (or at least everyone in the movie) going blind sounds like it would be a low-budget, creepy, sci-fi thriller. But it's directed by Fernando Meirelles, which raises the bar more than a little. (After all, he brought us City of God and The Constant Gardener.) And he cast an amazingly talented group of actors, starting with Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore as the stars (Ruffalo is a doctor who goes blind, Julianne sticks by him and is taken to the prison camp where all of the blind people are herded), and expanding with Danny Glover, Sandra Oh, and the beautiful Gael García Bernal in another bad-guy, creepy role that still can't make him any less lovely. So, put that cast and that director together, and this silly concept (based on a novel) suddenly carries weight. It looks dark and gritty and seriously, seriously creepy. It's a psychological thriller about how we all might treat each other if and when things ever get truly bad. Am I the only one who likes to think that maybe there would be more people standing up for the down-trodden than these movies make it seem? I know I'm probably being naively optimistic, but until it actually happens, I'm choosing to ignore the signs of our terrible human nature.

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