Blindness is a very close to the book film. It is made from the Nobel Literature prize winning novel of the same name (original in Portugese) by Jose Saramago. It is brutal and at times, hard to watch however it is excellent and very thought provoking. The critics mostly did not like it much but didn't hate it. I believe the critics are wrong and didn't want to take the effort to see the depth in this film.   Story is set in a large city where people start to go blind one by one. Their blindness is strange in that rather than seeing nothing (all black) they see nothing but a bright white field. One person describes it as being immersed in milk. The film centers around an ophthalmologist who diagnoses the disease's first victim and his wife who  for some strange reason, never catches the blindness. He becomes one of the disease's first victims.   The government rounds up all the blind people and puts them into an old prison under "quarantine." No medicine, no services only food delivered under gunpoint by guards who shoot anyone who gets too close. Soon everyone has gone blind, services completely disappear and the quarantine prison turns into the worst possible imaginable "Lord of the Flies"   The doctor's wife (Julianne Moore) goes into the prison with her doctor husband by pretending that she is also blind. She is the only sighted person in the prison and keeps her sight a secret. But this gives her a tremendous advantage and she becomes the primary care giver for everyone in the lock-up. Her husband, a caring, gentle and giving man soon feels helpless. Their relationship changes dramatically as he has difficulty coping with the role change in their marriage.   The film is scary as one must observe society's decay into life controlled by the fittest and most brutal and the degrading depths people will succumb to just to survive.   See this one!