Originally Posted by Ruby_Woo
So I was waaay curious as why people kept on adding "Blindness" to the list, so I ordered it last night On Demand. And well, it wasn't that bad. I honestly expected it to be absolutly horrifying and weird or just something way disturbing. It wasn't. I actually felt let down. I can see the disturbing point of your government not giving a damn and just quarantine everyone, thats scary. But it can, and has happened before. I think the scary part is thinking of YOURSELF as one of the patients being put in quarantine. If you think about it on the outside, for example, would you cut off a few bad apples to save a tree, or would you keep the apples and let the whole tree perish? It sounds messed up to think about it like that, but I've always thought "hard times call for hard decisions." Gael Garcia was such and a**hole in this movie! He gave a great performance I just wanted her to get rid of him already! lol anyway. I guess I hyped this movie way up in my head and didn't deliver the disturbance factor. Im gonna read the book now! I heard its way better
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| Originally Posted by CellyCell
I have to go with the original post and say Blindness was by far one of the most disturbing films I've seen. I remember talking about it to friends and they later watched and came back to me saying why I spoke about it because it just left them with a disgusted feeling and they felt it was too real. The scene with the Husband and other character is what got to me the worst. It just left this really sick feeling in my stomach - more than Holocaust films or whatever. It's just a situation where it happens to many and it was heart wrenching and sad. I think what made the film more disturbing was that not only did it feel like it could happen in our own real life but that there were no communication or talk about the occurrences that had happen between characters and in the end it left you thinking, "well, their lives will surely be f*cked up forever.'' It's a good film, it left you pondering about what our society is capable of... many good things yet many horrible things. I personally would never watch it again. It's too much. The Mist's ending was really a big ass, "wow, that sucks ass" moment. The remake of the Hills Have Eyes is probably the only horror film that really just made me go UGH NO MAS! I love horror films because they're pure entertainment and I can't take them seriously or to the heart. Pyschological thrillers... eh, sometimes they're too real. I end up getting pissed if I watch a movie that was just too disturbing (aka freakin' Blindness) . I'm like, some shit just should not be seen or made. LOL. I do want to watch Kids though. I hear so much about that film. |
| Originally Posted by Ruby_Woo
So I was waaay curious as why people kept on adding "Blindness" to the list, so I ordered it last night On Demand. And well, it wasn't that bad. I honestly expected it to be absolutly horrifying and weird or just something way disturbing. It wasn't. I actually felt let down. I can see the disturbing point of your government not giving a damn and just quarantine everyone, thats scary. But it can, and has happened before. I think the scary part is thinking of YOURSELF as one of the patients being put in quarantine. If you think about it on the outside, for example, would you cut off a few bad apples to save a tree, or would you keep the apples and let the whole tree perish? It sounds messed up to think about it like that, but I've always thought "hard times call for hard decisions." Gael Garcia was such and a**hole in this movie! He gave a great performance I just wanted her to get rid of him already! lol anyway. I guess I hyped this movie way up in my head and didn't deliver the disturbance factor. Im gonna read the book now! I heard its way better
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| Originally Posted by luvsic
That's EXACTLY how I felt about Blindness...it just felt too real to me. Disturbing, scary, sad and real. I feel like that's exactly what would happen (unfortunately) if something like that were to occur in the real world. It's profound, and I think it was a good movie (it got panned by critics, though) but for me it was just too much. I doubt I could ever watch it again. As for the husband scene, are you talking about the one where he was with the person with the dark glasses? (trying not to spoil for anyone..) |
| Originally Posted by CellyCell
I guess so? Forgot how that person look - but when the wife came in and didn't say nothing. Bleh, thinking about it makes my stomach turn because I know how that felt. |
| Originally Posted by kimberlane
I just wanted to comment on the Blindness movie. I found it very disturbing too. Not because it was scary. But because of how people acted in that situation, and how accurate it probably is. It disgusts me to think that humans can do those type of things to each and not so much as care. Like when they had to make there "payment" for the food. And people just expected them to go, and then what those people had to go through. It really pissed me off that she didn't get that guy sooner. If it had been me he would have been dead that first scene he was in. U could tell he was gonna be trouble. Then as one of you said about her walking in on them. And she just hugs the girl WTF? I don't care if girl is blind she gonna get hit. lol
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| Originally Posted by luvsic
SPOILERS highlight to read: MORE SPOILERS (in response to kimberlane):. |
