![]() Around the city, more citizens are struck blind, causing widespread panic, and the government organizes a quarantine for the blind in a derelict asylum. The next day, the doctor goes blind, and recognizes that the blindness must be caused by a communicable disease. ![]() When the blind man's wife returns home, she takes him to an ophthalmologist who can identify nothing wrong and refers him for further evaluation. However, he then steals the blind man's car. A seemingly kind passerby offers to drive him home. The film begins with a young professional suddenly going blind in his car while at an intersection, with his field of vision turning white. Blindness premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008, and was released in Canada as part of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2008. ![]() Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation, but the producers were able to acquire it with the condition that the film would be set in an unnamed and unrecognizable city. ![]() The film was written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles, starring Julianne Moore as the doctor's wife and Mark Ruffalo as the doctor. ![]() The film is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by the Portuguese author José Saramago. Blindness is a 2008 English-language thriller film about a society that suffers an epidemic of blindness. ![]()
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