Blindness
How to fail at common sense. Or how to fail at plot? I have not read the portuegese original, which I hope is more sensible or believable or just greater in any sense than the film.
I can't suspend disbelief that someone who can see when all else are blind will continue to act blind while she and others get raped, taken advantage of, starved to death and gunned down like prairie dogs.
And then when she does declare she can see, and always has been able to see, nobody gets pissed off at her. Oh thanks babe, for letting us get raped.
And the fucking gun. Gabriel Garcia does the best performance in the flick, which is amazing since his character is born out of absurdity. He shows up, a total ass, and magically has a gun. Were these people not searched? Wouldn't you think they'd search for firearms? Why does he have a gun? He's a bartender at a classy hotel. How does he have so many bullets as to be firing off random rounds willy nilly as to scare people?
Speaking of the treatment of the patients, its unbelievably ignorant and cruel. I guess Governments really are evil and yet dumb. Stormtroopers United is the republic where this takes place I guess.
And after commiting atrocities of common sense inside a rundown quarantine for hours, the movie finally breaks out into the open daylight and public. And once they get there, you can tell the writer has run out of anywhere to go with a plot that has not neared a decent ending yet. So you think "What the hell can this writer do to end this bitch? Oh thats right, the only way to go is to make them see again." And boom, next scene and they start to regain their ability to see, roll credits.
Now to the benefit of the film, the last bit before the writer runs out of avenues to go, makes the ending say quite a bit. Here, the people, void of sight, finally unite and create a family with no prejudice. They need each other, absolutely, to survive. But once they regain their sight, they no longer need each other and you can feel that they'll all split apart again, independent and distant.
Unfortunately, the plot is unbelievable and the characters as well. If the film had some development and truth to it on the way to that ending, then this could have been a fine movie. As it is, it's bullocks.
