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situation. And this is where the normal niceties of life and the movie part company. What follows is something distinctly un-Hollywood, fights over food lead to those that have money or jewellery being the only ones who can eat, and when this runs out the only form of cash available for starving inhabitants is the oldest trade in the book, women sold for sex.

Blindness is by far the darkest sinister and generally uncomfortable big budget movie to come out of Hollywood for years. It has a distinctly gritty European feel about it; corridors covered in urine and excrement, women traded like they are nothing and some generally unpleasant sex scenes follow that despite the inability for the viewer to actually see anything, leads them to believe they have just seen something so harsh they were one step away from pornography. But all these terrible things make up the "charm", (for want of a better word) of the movie. If the world came to an end through virus, it would not be pink soft shades, and a beautiful vision of returning to a back to basics existence, it would be hard, bloody and life ending not life changing.

Blindness has some incredibly driven performances, with Moore making all the sacrifices and Ruffalo looking on quite literally blind to the world, almost losing all comprehension of what life was like before he lost his vision. The storytelling will make you very angry from the offset, but this is not a negative aspect more one that will burn the movie into your brain like no other. If you like your movie tastes a little more light hearted then this is no movie for you, however if your prepared to watch a movie that will stay with you for life, then this is the one.

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