"Blindness" --the movie

I had seen this preview before it was shown in class, and I thought it looked like an awful movie. I didn't give very much thought, though, as to people who were legally blind.
The second time it came up was on one of my favorite shows, "Chelsea Lately". The show features Chelsea Handler, a comedian. Clearly, when she mentioned the movie and the controversy behind it, she did not support the NFB. She's a comedian and made jokes about it. I have to admit, seeing it being made fun of on "Chelsea Lately" made me want to know more about it.
So when a couple days later, we saw the full trailor in class, I finally could see what the controversy was about.

I am a very hard movie critic, for numerous reasons. But without even seeing this movie, I can tell it would be terrible. If suddenly a massive amount of people went blind, there would be panic, as portrayed. However, I do not like the message of blindness being a completely handicapping condition. I did not like seeing the newly blind turn into animals. It was rude and inaccurately depicted. As we discussed in class, it's only worse to make the hero of the movie unaffected by the blindness that is spreading around. It further demotes those who are blind, and makes them look like a helpless, pitiful group. I was really surprised to see actors in it that I knew.

I will do my part to neither buy the book nor see the movie.