2008 (Fernando Meirelles) 18A, 118 min
Starring: Danny Glover, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo

An epidemic of blindness strikes the citizens of an unnamed city, including an unnamed ophthalmologist (Ruffalo). The plague spreads rapidly and its cause is unknown. Freaked-out government officials imprison the afflicted, as the increasingly sightless society falls apart. Like the popular José Saramago source novel, Blindness forces the audience to piece things together by selectively removing identifying details. Director Meirelles (City of God) concocts a ghostly world, punctuated by seeping white light when a character loses sight. The doctor’s wife (Moore) retains her vision and, pretending to be blind, accompanies her husband into quarantine, where inmates band together into Lord of the Flies-style tribes and attempt to survive and maybe escape. A stylish allegory, partly filmed in Guelph and Toronto, to ponder long after the movie fades.