Blindness

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Watching this movie trailer in class was completely disturbing. I looked around the room and people were shaking their heads during it showing complete disgust with the idea of this movie. The way they show blindness as an epidemic to be contained was appalling. It's terrible that the "hero" in this film is the wife of a husband with blindness that leads them and saves them. She is not blind and is the only one shown who can save these people and make a difference. I feel as though this showed that the blind people in this movie were incompetent and is completely offensive to people who are blind in real life. I would absolutely not support this movie by going to see it and it makes me sick that someone would actually think it was okay to produce this movie. No one would ever choose race as an epidemic so why would we think it's okay to choose blindness as an epidemic that needs to be contained?