'Blindness' an unpleasant and conventional horror

Director: Fernando Meirelles

Cast: Julianne Moore, Danny Glover, Mark Ruffalo

Cert: 15

A futuristic horror story in which a city’s citizens are devastated by blindness and the first sufferers are isolated … there to lurch into factions, fighting, lawlessness and all the things society seems always on the brink of.

It’s an unpleasant film – even if there are glimpses of how good it might have been – with several scenes of rape and nudity seemingly thrown in merely for a bit of sex-on-screen deemed desirable by audiences.

While society fragments around her one woman (Moore) – who isn’t blind but keeps the secret to herself – leads a group back to the city, a city as equally blighted as the evil place of isolation.

The weakness of the film lies in the setting up of a possible look at where society is heading and just how twisted humans can get and the failure to follow through … leaving us with a tale of fairly conventional horror.

Star Rating: 3/5