Blindness

To be honest a movie like Blindness does not appeal to me which is why I have not seen it. It is not because the NFB is protesting it but that just gives me more reason not to see it. Depicting characters that have a physical disability in any way is hard to watch and not be offended however it is just a movie. It is hard for me to take a stand on the issue because I am not blind and do not know anyone that is. I completely understand how in any situation discrimination of a physical characteristic is upsetting and the fact that the characters in the movie are being portrayed as "incompetent, filthy, vicious, and depraved" (Mauro) make people even more disgusted by the whole premise. It is too coincidental that the one civilized person in the movie is not blind and she ends up saving the day. Miramax says how the film is "a courageous parable about the triumph of the human spirit when civilization breaks down," but the fact that being blind has everything to do with it is completely inappropriate. In her article, Terri Mauro uses the example about being blond and everyone becoming "vapid idiots". No one would ever make a movie about this because the whole idea is ridiculous, much to the whole idea that being blind is an epidemic. The NFB has every right to protest this movie and I applaud their courageous effort to try and get people to understand where there coming from.