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Film would have been much better with a little explanation

posted 12 years ago by turkeyprophet
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I enjoyed this film quite a lot especially the style and story but I was left scratching my head throughout the whole thing.

But I just couldn't understand a few things, firstly why they were quarantined in a run down building without any help? It didn't even look like someone was being tested on to work out a cure. They just threw a bunch of blind people in to a building as though it were the last option and didn't even give them enough food, canes or anything that could help them. I can't understand why they would try and impoverish them in such a way or why they weren't allowed contact with the outside world.

Secondly, why were they just pooping and urinating on the floor? I know they are blind but they are not dogs. Surely the place had a toilet they could use. For that matter why were they just throwing litter everywhere and why did the kid piss himself?

Thirdly, why did the soldiers continue to guard a small group of infected when clearly most of the world was becoming infected and how did their blindness prevent them from opening the gate and going "hey, we are all blind now. You can leave".

[–] zephyr-123 12 years ago

First, the building wasn't run down when the epidemic started. It was a nice normal hospital. Maybe you missed that part. The reason it became dirty and run down and people were doing their business on the floor and things were just thrown everywhere has to do with the breakdown of society. In fact much of what you are asking has to do with that. The people in the hospital/prison started out probably with some hope until everything became hopeless and when a person is put in that situation, they stop caring about their hygiene and cleanliness. Ever see a homeless person who hasn't bathed in months? They also couldn't see to put things away and keep things clean plus they had become frightened and depressed which would affect their ability to keep things in order. Being blind would be frightening but knowing that not only are you blind, but so is everyone else, would be much worse.

Eventually, everyone became blind (except for the doctor's wife). No one running the water company (hence no functioning toilets), no electricity, no hospital staff (they are somewhere blind also), no food being produced (farmers and factory workers are blind), no truckers to ship food (blind), no government eventually so no food being brought, no policing of anything, no one to take care of the people there. All the fixtures of society that people have set up have fallen apart because of everyone becoming blind. I think the reason they didn't just up and leave was because things progressed a certain way--first they are quarantined and being cared for, then the hospital staff goes blind and they don't have that so the government tightens it's hold over the quarantine and it becomes like a concentration camp. The guards become more and more apathetic as the government they work for also falls apart with members of government also becoming blind. They have less and less leaders to answer to. They become overwhelmed with the responsibility to police the place and can't supply what the patients need. They fall into anarchy and start just picking off the patients if they step one foot out of line. The guards themselves either give up and leave or go blind themselves and leave.

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[–] I_Created_U 11 years ago

Secondly, why were they just pooping and urinating on the floor? I know they are blind but they are not dogs. Surely the place had a toilet they could use.

If that's one of your questions, u missed the point of the movie... Big time!

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