Yeah… maybe you don’t know the storie, but it’s totally true! A long long time ago, of course
A Brazilian periodic found the “girl”, and…well, see with your bare eyes the “before and later”:
Time is our worse enemy, for sure…But the best is the headtitle, which in English, we could translate into something like this: “He was a hunk, sweet and romantic”
This movie is adapted from a Jose Saramago’s Essays on Blindness. About that book, wow, it’s great, awesome, it’s so good that I have no words to explain! The story is about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness – it’s a terrifying epidemic of “white blindness” – the sufferers seeing only milky white light – that posters have showed up as well (congratulations CG guys!).
When I read the book at first time, sometimes I almost threw up. Rapes, murders, rapes, human degradation, rapes, death (have I mentioned ‘rapes’ already?). But, believe it or not, that book is great!
I have no shadow of doubt that the movie is as good as the book. Indeed, Jose Saramago don’t let me lie. Watch below an exciting little video on Youtube whereby himself talk about the movie.
Translated:
Saramago says:
- Fernando…
Meirelles, sensing that maybe the writer is feeling obligated to say something, interrupts him:
- You don’t need to…
But Saramago doesn’t stop:
- I’m as happy after watching this film…
He pauses… And then he completes the sentence:
- … as I was when I finished writing the book.
Fernando:
“Really? You don’t know how happy this makes me.”
And then he leans forward and kisses Saramago’s forehead.
As a Brazilian, I’m going to debuts a campaign called “DON’T MAKE ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS OF BLINDNESS MOVIE“. Perhaps it’s hypocrisy, I know, once the softwares I most use are E-mule and uTorrent. I say that because that movies seems so good that it’s almost a sin watch it illegaly – unlike Speed Racer, of course.
Ah, I almost forgot to tell you: At the end of the movie, everybody starts to see again. And not, the little boy doens’t find his mother. Never more.
PS: A comment from YouTube brings an interesting point: “I guess that video is unfair and invasive. After all, that’s a private moment between Mr. Saramago and Mr. Meirelles and it doensn’t matter to Blogosphere guys”.
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