'Blindness' provokes blind activists nationwide
Miramax’s latest film Blindness, starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, has created a controversy amongst the blind community. The film depicts blind people “quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food.”
The film is based off a novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, that originally depicted “a mysterious epidemic that causes people to see nothing but fuzzy white light — resulting in a collapse of the social order in an unnamed city.”
Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, says “The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie.”
Members of the National Federation for the Blind plan to protest outside theaters.
Do you think this is justified anger?
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- 10.09.08
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