Li abbassa e vede la città. The screenwriter wrote out the "actions and circumstances" that would allow the wife to find her responsibility. McKellar explained the changes he intended to make from the novel and what the focus would be, and two days later he and Fichman left Saramago's home with the rights. McKellar knew he wanted a stylistically adept director and didn't want to be too prescriptive, preferring only to hint at an approach. Blind people do not behave like uncivilized, animalized creatures. Cecità (Italian Edition) – Kindle edition by José Saramago, Rita Desti. The novel defines its characters by little more than their present actions; doing the same for the adaptation became "an interesting exercise" for McKellar. You usually cut when someone looks over. He sought to have them question the humanity of how she observes but does not act in various situations, including a rape scene. With all the characters aside from Julianne Moore's character being blind, the cast was trained to simulate blindness. Director Fernando Meirelles had wanted to direct a film adaptation in 1997, perceiving it as "an allegory about the fragility of civilization". Anxiety over the availability of food undermines morale and introduces conflict between the prison's wards, as the soldiers who guard the camp become increasingly hostile. "[12] He also found that a New York City test screening expressed concern about a victim in the film failing to take revenge; Meirelles ascribed this as a reflection of what Americans have learned to expect in their cinema. Alcune scene sono poi state girate anche a Montevideo e a Guelph nell'Ontario, oltre che nella città di Osasco che fa parte dell'area metropolitana di San Paolo. She discovers a well-stocked basement storeroom beneath a grocery store, barely escaping with aid from her husband when the throng around her smell the fresh food she is carrying. The film per se is not amazing, but if confronted with the book it is taken from, Saramago's "ensaio sobre a cegueira", it is quite bad. The director began with an omniscient vantage point, transited to the intact viewpoint of the doctor's wife, and changed again to the Man with the Black Eye Patch, who connects the quarantined to the outside world with stories. One such saw him veer away from the novel by creating names and backstories for all the characters. The next day, just as suddenly as his sight had been lost, the driver recovers his sight. This is bold, masterly, film-making. [50] José Saramago has described his novel as allegorically depicting "a blindness of rationality". Blindness (novel), a 1995 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago Blindness (2008 film), a 2008 film adaptation of the 1995 novel Blindness (2016 film), a 2016 Polish film "Blindness", a song by Metric from the 2009 album Fantasies But it's a very subtle thing. Chang thought that Julianne Moore gave a strong performance but did not feel that the film captured the impact of Saramago's novel. I just think what my character wants. Click to read more about Editions: Blindness by José Saramago. She tends to be at her best when the world is at its worst. [15], McKellar attended a summer camp for the blind as part of his research. Some women were really angry with the film, and I thought, 'Wow, maybe I crossed the line.' [35] According to Rotten Tomatoes, 44% of 160 critics have given the film a positive review, and the average rating is 5.3/10. [46], Meirelles screened Blindness privately for Saramago. With Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yûsuke Iseya. [17], Meirelles originally envisioned doing the film in Portuguese similar to the novel's original language, but instead directed the film in English, saying, "If you do it in English you can sell it to the whole world and have a bigger audience. L'autore era restio a concederli temendo che i temi trattati, contenendo anche violenza, stupri e brutalità, potessero finire "nelle mani sbagliate". Bill White of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer named it the 5th best film of 2008,[46] and Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle named it the 8th best film of 2008. At this point, the "white sickness" has become international, with hundreds of cases reported every day. Blindness è stato presentato a Cannes come primo film in concorso il 14 maggio 2008. Uno di questi si offre di aiutarlo guidandogli la sua macchina fino a casa. Around the city, more citizens are struck blind, causing widespread panic, and the government organizes a quarantine for the blind in a derelict asylum. "[38] Justin Chang of Variety described the film: "Blindness emerges onscreen both overdressed and undermotivated, scrupulously hitting the novel's beats yet barely approximating, so to speak, its vision." Cecità (Italian Edition) – Kindle edition by José Saramago, Rita Desti. La cecità sta effettivamente dilagando e le autorità hanno deciso di isolare i contagiati in strutture sicure. Dopo aver audacemente trovato da mangiare e aver passato la prima notte in un negozio, i sette si dirigono a casa del medico. Cecità di José Saramago, scava nella profondità dell’ animo umano mettendo a nudo l’aspetto animalesco che dorme dentro ognuno di noi. The doctor's wife leads her husband and a few others from their ward in search of food and shelter. He dismissed the protests, stating that "stupidity doesn't choose between the blind and the non-blind. When you have two characters in a dialogue, emotion is expressed by the way people look at each other, through the eyes. Duurvoort not only taught the extras mannerisms, but also to convey the emotional and psychological states of blind people. "[9], With only one character's point of view available, Meirelles sought to switch the points-of-view throughout the film, seeing three distinct stylistic sections. He also toned down the visual cues in his screenplay, such as the "brilliant milky whiteness" of blindness described in the novel. The director concluded the switching with the combination of the perspective of the Doctor's Wife and the narrative of the Man with the Black Eye Patch. Un film ben fatto, soprattutto se teniamo conto che si basa su quel gran capolavoro del romanzo di Saramago, "Cecità". A screening of his first cut in Toronto resulted in ten percent of the audience, nearly 50 people, walking out of the film early. As more blinded people are crammed into what has become a concentration camp, overcrowding and lack of outside support cause hygiene and living conditions to quickly degrade. [33][34], Despite being on a number of critics top 10 lists for 2008, the film received "mixed or average" reviews on Metacritic, which sampled 31 critic reviews and calculated a weighted average score of 45 out of 100. E, come in una giungla, la pandemia rende gli esseri umani improvvisamente spietati. It has a real coil of horror at its centre, yet is lightened with gentleness and humour. [15] Conditions set by Saramago were for the film to be set in a country that would not be recognizable to audiences,[16] and that the canine in the novel, the Dog of Tears, should be a big dog. José Saramago was born on November 16, 1922 in Azinhaga, Golega, Portugal as José de Sousa Saramago. This is "Booktrailer: Cecità di Josè Saramago" by Margherita Sartor on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. The film, like the novel, directly addresses sight and point of view and asks you to see things from a different perspective." With Gael (García Bernal), he said, 'I never think about the past. Blindness - Cecità is currently available to stream, rent, and buy in the Stati Uniti. Costretti a fuggire, i ciechi scoprono che i cancelli sono aperti e le guardie non ci sono più. Saramago originally refused to sell the rights to Meirelles, Whoopi Goldberg, or Gael García Bernal. Un uomo, mentre è fermo a un semaforo alla guida della sua automobile, diventa improvvisamente cieco. The director also stylized the film to reflect the lack of point of view that the characters would experience. When you're blind, the response is much flatter. He wanted it cast in a way to represent all of humanity. Blindness - Cecità (Blindness) è un film del 2008 diretto da Fernando Meirelles. They celebrate and their hope is restored. [9] Saramago explained, "I always resisted because it's a violent book about social degradation, rape, and I didn't want it to fall into the wrong hands." It responds to the novel's notes of apocalypse and dystopia, and its disclosure of a spiritual desert within the modern city, but also to its persistent qualities of fable, paradox and even whimsy." Il soggetto è tratto dal romanzo del 1995 Cecità di José Saramago. [9] One technique was reacting to others as a blind person, whose reactions are usually different from those of a sighted person. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness. Meirelles chose an international cast. In the ensuing chaos, the building catches fire, with many inmates dying. [37] Of the film critics from the Screen International Cannes critics jury, Alberto Crespi of the Italian publication L'Unità, Michel Ciment of French film magazine Positif and Dohoon Kim of South Korean film publication Cine21, all gave the film zero points (out of four). Meirelles said several actors he talked to were intimidated by the concept of playing characters without names: "I offered the film to some actors who said, 'I can't play a character with no name, with no history, with no past. I ciechi si spostano in piccoli gruppi a caccia di quel poco cibo che ancora si può scovare in negozi o case abbandonate. From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. "[36], Screen International's Cannes screen jury which annually polls a panel of international film critics gave the film a 1.3 average out of 4, placing the film on the lower-tier of all the films screened at competition in 2008. Use features. A man with a handgun appoints himself "king" of his ward, and takes control of the food deliveries, first demanding the other wards' valuables, and then for the women to have sex with their men. "[44], The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris raved about the leading actress: "Julianne Moore is a star for these terrible times. "[47], The film has been strongly criticized by several organizations representing the blind community. Blindness debuttò come film d'apertura al Festival di Cannes del 2008 e uscì poi nelle sale negli Stati Uniti nell'ottobre dello stesso anno. It reminded me of George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead, and Peter Shaffer's absurdist stage-play Black Comedy. Blindness (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago.It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda.In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award. "[23] Similar to the book, blindness in the film serves as a metaphor for human nature's dark side: "prejudice, selfishness, violence and willful indifference. Tra queste sua moglie, la moglie del primo cieco e la ragazza dagli occhiali scuri.