blindness/dawn of the dead

 In the beginning of Dawn of the Dead, society is starting to break down. The people are trying to save their zombie relatives and hide them away while the government tries to contain the plague by any means necessary. While it seems like society is holding strong against the plague, eventually government contact ends leaving the protagonists on their own. Blindness is similar because the government in this story shares the same sentiment as the government in Dawn of the Dead. Both governments want to contain the plague as much as they can. In Dawn of the Dead and Blindness, they don't know how the plague started. The doctor's wife going along with her husband is similar to the way families kept their undead relatives in basements because they wanted to help them. Even the zombies kept in the basements mirror the blind because the zombies were kept isolated and their only interaction with people was when they were fed. The infected in Blindness only interacted with the soldiers when they wanted food or a spade to bury their dead.