More movie stuff

[sabotabby]

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I had grave reservations about an adaptation of Blindness, as it's one of my favourite books and I imagine that it's pretty near unadaptable. But—it's going to be directed by the guy who did City of God. And the trailer suggests that they're not losing any of the allegorical elements that made the book so powerful. So my expectations are high, oh yes.

We do not, however, need another film about the gorram Battle of Seattle. Especially one that looks like it's going to not just suck, but actually suck the entire universe into an epic ocean of its own fail.

Comments

[captainmushroom.livejournal.com]

I'm really curious about "Blindness." I really don't think a movie can match the horror I experienced reading it, nor capture the depth of depravity that Saramago presented to us. There's something uniquely disturbing about the inhumanity that he created, and taking it out of the novel and onto a screen, I think it would lose a lot. Also, I just have a hard time imagining a director being allowed to create scenes that would accurately convey the emotions. It would, perhaps, be possible to create the film, but to do it successfully, would it be a film that one could actually show?

My curiosity has certainly been piqued.

[sabotabby]

I think to be done well it has to evoke the horror in an entirely different way. One of the reasons I've been skeptical is that I can't see how anyone could convey Saramago's prose. But I've heard that he approves, so I think it'll be a good movie, at any rate.