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Outraged Activists Suggest ‘Full Blindness’ is the New ‘Full Retard’

8:10AM STV | You really can’t make this stuff up: If it’s not the developmentally disabled failing to grasp the point of Tropic Thunder’s “full-retard” satire, then it’s the blind protesting a movie they can’t even see. Or so says the president of the National Federation of the Blind, who sat in on a recent screening of the Julianne Moore/Mark Ruffalo film Blindness with a few sighted allies, only to emerge outraged over the depiction of townspeople reduced to madness and violence when struck by a blindness epidemic. Based on Nobel laureate Jose Saramago’s novel, the film actually reflects the author’s metaphor of sudden, corrupted social order; little did Saramago know he was actually composing the Simple Jack of modern literary allegories. More »

What’s Stopping Cannes From Embracing Bleak New Julianne Moore Film?

7:25AM Defamer Hollywood | The Cannes rumour mill is whirring at full speed again today as the trades pick up whispers that the Julianne Moore/Mark Ruffalo drama Blindness is likely to occupy the opening-night slot. The Toronto Star is saying it’s a done deal, but it’s not official, and we’re not so sure; with barely two weeks remaining before the May 14th opener, word over the Defamer transom suggests that Blindness is bad enough to make festival programmers wait — and make distributor Miramax stall — before committing the plum spot to a stinker. More »