Tag: Alice Braga

  • A Disease Immune to Bureaucracy: Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness

    A Disease Immune to Bureaucracy: Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness

    Director Fernando Meirelles has examined desperate pressure cookers (City of God) and institutional corruption (The Constant Gardener) before. Blindness proves perfect to meld both themes, with a science fiction twist imagining the downfall of civilization itself. Blindness is part of a special subset of the horror/sci-fi/disaster genre: the dystopian end-of-civilization nightmare. Whereas the typical entry […]