Blindness

(2008)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 1,418 votes

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Year: 2008

Runtime: 121 мин

Country: Brazil, Canada

Director: Фернанду Мейреллиш

Cast: Джулианна Мур, Марк Руффало, Дэнни Гловер, Гаэль Гарсиа Берналь, Мори Чайкин, Алиси Брага, Дон МакКеллар, Сандра О, Юсукэ Исэя, Йошино Кимура

Plot

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is, however, one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble.