Blindness

Last night I had the pleasure of watching a strong but brilliant movie: Blindness, inspired on José Saramago's book and directed by Brazilian Fernando Meirelles. In the movie, people suddenly start to get blind. Suspecting the disease is contagious, the government sends all the new blinds to an ex insane asylum. As it fills up, issues like governance, lack of food and relationships start to arrise.

The whole situation made me thing about how oddly we are organised as a society, based on money, concentration of people, security systems and lack of trust, when everybody knows small cells of organisation based on care is always better.

Another thought persisting in my mind is what extreme situations do to human beings. I guess we often see dignity and values going down the drain. But we also witness love arising in the most unexpected moments.

And, finally, someone might ask: in a society where most of us is blind, what is the role of the few ones who see?