Blindness

Aroview: Psychological thriller set in a big city where a sudden epidemic of 'white blindness' strikes half the population, and those affected set up their own hierarchical society.

This sits firmly in the 'bleak post-apocalypse' genre, and for the most part is a relentless assault on your senses, a cold reminder that things are most definitely NOT going to be ok. It's gritty, uber-reality has much in common with fellow sci-fi parable CHILDREN OF MEN, although, crucially, lacks the glimmer of hope – and heart - which uplifted that film's cautionary tale. Oppression notwithstanding, the sci-fi story here is mostly gripping, at its best when within the walls of a chaotic hospital, where a blind Gael Garcia Bernal calls himself 'the King'