Articles tagged "blindness"

Books Feature

PopMatters Best of Books 2008: Fiction

by PopMatters Staff

[5.Jan.09] :. Feeling anxious? Here are 23 masterful works of fiction from 2008 that will either underscore your anxiety or help alleviate it through escape into the past and the land of make-believe.

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Blindness by Jose Saramago

by Derek Beres

[3.Nov.08] :. The women have the strength to withstand the chaos; the men shirk at the responsibility, although they too eventually follow the women’s lead.

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Film Review

Blindness

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.08] :. If its political metaphor is plain, the aesthetic allusions are more intriguing, as Blindness works to show what can't be shown, to find a visual language for what's not visual.

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Column: The Screener

In the Land of the Blind

by Chris Barsanti

[3.Oct.08] :. Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness fails because the source material doesn’t easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth.

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Fable Feels ‘Blind’ to its Own Illogic

by Bill Gibron

[2.Oct.08] :. Before Star Wars, serious science fiction survived on the allegorical. Take a typical situation, instill it with some sort of out of this world premise, and watch as humanity races toward its...

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview