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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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HOLLYWOOD BLINDNESS
EDITOR'S PICK
Internationally renowned filmmaker and Academy Award-nominee Fernando
Meirelles (The Constant Gardener, City of God) brings to life Nobel Prize winner
José Saramago`s exhilarating tale of humanity under siege by an uncanny
epidemic.
Faced with a mysterious outbreak of blindness, governmental authorities
quarantine the affected individuals in an abandoned mental hospital. As more
patients arrive each day, the hospital cannot properly accommodate them, and
systems begin to break down-food is scarce, toilets are backed up, and the dead
lay unburied. The nightmare grows worse when a rebellious inmate (Gael García
Bernal) resorts to unspeakable violence to take control of the hospital and the
food rations for himself. Fortunately for the other victims, when a level headed
doctor (Mark Ruffalo) is sent to the hospital after losing his vision, his
devoted wife (Julianne Moore) refuses to leave his side and sneaks into the
facility despite still having her sight. Together, they lead the other in
fighting back with every ounce of strength they can muster to break free of this
hellish imprisonment and journey back into the world; a journey that leads them
away from mankind`s worst appetites and weaknesses into a world where they hope
to once again discover the spirit of human decency that has been lost for so
long
