"Blindness" Controversy

I was genuinely surprised after seeing the trailor for the movie Blindness. Perhaps I am naieve to think that people (movie producers, well-known actors, people in general) are more aware of controversial topics than the creation of this movie would suggest. Maybe I'm crazy and these people never thought something controversial would come out of this movie, but I can't see how this could be true. After reading the first article posted on the TE448 blog, I looked at the comments posted beneath. 3 out of 4 people were saddened and surprised at the movie. One woman said, "being the mother of a blind child, I can say that when I first saw the previews on TV, I had a feeling of sadness. It makes my heart sad that a movie portraying blindness as an epidemic could be made. I fight the daily war to make people see not what my daughter CANNOT do, but what she CAN do!" Something that I think needs to be the forefront in the argument against this movie needs to be that there are real, hard-working, good people who happen to be blind and can successfully live in this world. Having not seen it myself, I can gather from the trailor and the articles that the movie portrays people who are blind as infantile, sick, and blindness as something that ruins lives. These stereotypes/misconceptions are hurtful and completely untrue. Something that is the most surprising to me is that people who are supposedly intelligent could write, direct, and act in a movie that is so insulting to group of people.