What to say about Blind­ness? I went and saw it with Theresa when It came out in Canada (Octo­ber 3rd, if anyone is won­der­ing). We had seen pre­views for it months ago, and the idea intregued us both. At that point it fell off the map to anyone who wasn’t actively trying to follow it.

Appar­ently it was shown at the Cannes film fes­ti­val to mixed recep­tion. Read­ing reviews online does little to ease ones trep­i­da­tion towards the film. It seems that Blind­ness is a movie that has those who love it, and others that feel that it was “like look­ing into the sky and having sand poured into your eyes.” I’ve had to think long and hard about what I really felt about it.

It had all the mak­ings for a great film: a good premise, a fairly strong cast call­ing, some impres­sive cin­e­matog­ra­phy, an excel­lent musi­cal score, and a fair amount of detail. So what happened?