Blindness-Movie

The movie was very disturbing but I guess that is a good thing because we really get a feel of what it must be like being in the blind people's position. the effect of the white blankness really allows you to see what the blind people "see." To me the whiteness accompanied by the background sounds in the beginning of the movie gave me peaceful vibes even though they were all disturbed. They were a lot  of scenes taken out in the movie and some were changed as well. There was extra dialogue like when the girl with the dark glasses is talking to the doctor and makes him feel better which leads to sex. I remember in the book there was only sex. The doctor's wife finds food in the basement of the supermarket and people catch her and fight her for the food. That was not in the book, she safely came out with the food. The doctor accompanied her when in the book she went alone, got lost, found a map and then got to her destination. The scene where the man with the eye patch is bathing and the girl with the glasses helps him, shows that they both know who their talking to but in the book the man with the eye-patch didn't know who came and washed his back. The cause of the blindness was not known but I think from the church scene where the doctor's wife sees paintings and statues having their eyes covered gave the story a religious view point. It didn't seem like a disease. it was more of teaching people a lesson: valuing your eyesight, showing people how selfish we are, that there are some who are selfless, how weak we are without the blessing of sight.