Blindness (2016) User Reviews

The Weight Of Conscience

[dk777 · 8/10 · 12 June 2021]

A story that takes us through a complicated human consciousness.

The story is interesting and shows different people with different destinies and all the weight of human emotions.

A communist agent trying to find meaning in all this realizes that the world is much more complicated than she thought. She is slowly pressed by her own conscience, haunted by horrific images from the past and the ghosts of her victims.

Maria Mamona played her role well, she portrayed a person for whom it is really hard to have sympathy, but that may be the point of this film. You really need to have the strength to forgive someone for such things, it is extremely difficult.

The film tries to show us how complicated people are, capable of cruelty but also capable of kindness.

An interesting and complicated story about the search for meaning and redemption.

Eli Eli Lama Sabbachthani

[ulicknormanowen · 26 May 2021]

A film easy to admire but not easy to like : Julia is an elusive personality, ,and it's impossible to feel empathy for her ,which the excellent actress ,Maria Mamona, does nothing to rectify ; her childhood was not a happy one,nobody loved me she said ,but she had nonetheless the opportunity to study in La Sorbonne where she met christian philosopher Jacques Maritain (died 1973). A very educated woman ,she weighed up the pros and cons and refused Pascal's wager ;she became a criminal in the Staline years and tortured the prisoners with cruelty and sadicism :only a very small portion is given over to torture scenes ,anyway suggestion is always stronger; the best scene is perhaps the bedridden dying victim ,refusing to denounce his hangman , and oddly using the third person .In his "pensées" ,Pascal wrote that the martyrs were a positive proof of the existence of God.

The gist of the movie is the visit to the Institute for the blind , where the forty-nine -old woman ,where she wants to see the Primate of Poland to ask him his forgiveness ; she's afraid of death,of damnation , and she feels guilt : although the nun tells her they have no enemy , although she helps her with her young blind pupils ,she is blinder than them ; the Primate keeps her waiting ,and "she's not used to it" ; according to the film ,she has to spend a night on the place where flashbacks of her unthinkable past comes back to haunt her ; the interview with the Primate is the actress ' highlight : her harrowed face , in close shot,reflects agonies of remorse .

Faith is not a matter of culture ;Kant wrote :"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."Only the gospel according to Saint Matthews gives eyesight to the blind, in this metaphoric institute.