Me? Never.
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I never saw it coming...but to be fair it was a very far fetched twist. Still liked the movie though. I am willing to forgive a lot for the post apocalypse genre, but it was very hard to suspend my disbelief for that chestnut.
shareI am re-watching this movie again but I never recall it sticking to me that he was blind. There is one specific scene where he recognized a woman being blind although I cannot see any plausible explanation for that if he can't see where she looks at. Think it's just an uncalled for "twist"
shareWhen she brought him the food, she stood in the doorway for a few seconds as if she was uncertain about something. Then she told him he needed to say something so she would know where he was. That made him realize she was blind.
shareHe was not blind. I just watched the film on DVD and I am rewatching some scenes right now and I can tell you no blind man can move the eyes and direct the vision like Eli does. There are plenty of scenes you can clearly see him looking for the person he is talking to. He looks in the eyes of the others and blind people can't do that.
If he is really blind, well, that fact is poorly portrayed along the movie.
Just because he knows where there eyes are and looks in that general direction? He wasn't born blind my friend, he became blind. So it's only natural for him to focus in that direction as he has learned to do for many years before becoming blind. He was definitely blind and there are tells throughout the film that says so. For instance, when the grifter lady was telling him where the water was in the basket, he kicked around the basket until he felt it then he proceeded to pick up the water. When he finds that dead body, he touches the legs and goes down from there until he feels the shoes then he proceeds to take the shoes off the corpse. When the people are shooting at him, he doesn't shoot until he hears where the shooting is coming from first. When the cannibals were coming at him in the beginning, he only reacted to their actions, he never went first.
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Hmmm... Well I can accept it. But then it is badly depicted anyway, in spite of those hints. Even if one person is not born blind and become it later in life, the blind eyes will get some kind of "lazy" sooner or later, and will never move like Denzel's did. Blind people will direct their head to the sound source (voice) of his interlocutor, but their eyes won't move much (maybe some sluggish movement) since there is no longer that necessity, because all they can see is black. No direction, no focus, no pupillary light reflex. They seem to be looking to the infinity. So it's either bad acting or bad director's indications.
shareI think you're thinking too hard about it. They never said he was pitch black blind, like nothing there at all. He could be blind but can see shapes or see certain colors still. Blind doesn't always equate to darkness, you know? It was brilliantly handled actually, again, he wasn't really looking into their eyes it just seemed that way but, then again, Denzel isn't really blind so they can only fake it to a certain point.
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Well, from actors like him, earning money like he does, I demand perfection! 😁 That's what makes an "actor" an Actor.
shareMost legally blind people aren't completely blind. And he is not completely blind.
Solved.
He's either blind or he isn't. If he's not completely blind then he just has poor eyesight.
shareNo, he was completely blind. The whole idea is that he's indeed receiving divine guidance. He knew where people were standing and what they were doing because he had some kind of sixth sense, knew where to shoot without actually seeing, and never acted against anyone who wasn't about to harm him or someone else - because that's what a righteous man does.
This isn't like The Sixth Sense where once you know the twist, you can go back and see how cleverly you were misdirected into missing the obvious. Eli does things no blind person should be able to do. Stuff you can't explain away as better hearing in the absence of sight, etc. With this movie even the most observant viewers aren't meant to figure it out ahead of the reveal. You're supposed to have the same reaction as the villain, right along with him.
I agree. People are assuming he was blind because he had a braille Bible, but that is quite literally the only evidence for him being blind, and absolutely everything else is against it. A far likelier explanation is the he simply learned to read braille.
shareHoly shit, this post just blew my mind!
shareThere are other clues he is blind. He feels around for stuff quite a bit. When he is leaving the first place he slept in he trips on something on the ground. When he approaches the steps to the house he kicks the first step so he knows it is there and to step up. He only reacts to people after they make noise or he is close enough to smell them. When he almost walks off the collapsed bridge he only stops because he kicked some pebbles over the edge and heard them fall. Etc...
Many many clues if you pay attention. I had to rewtach it to notice them.
There are quite a few things he does that suggest he is not blind, but you can write that off as God guiding him, as he explains.
that way he can read it in the dark!
I never realized Eli was blind until near the end of the movie when Carnegie opened the book and found it was in braille.
I can accept he may have only been partially blind, but the message is clearly that Eli suffered blindness.
Carnegie said "He cant be, its impossible!"... and indeed it seemed impossible by the way Eli survived to the end.
But there is also a hint at Divine Intervention helping Eli overcome his disability, and complete the task against all odds.
I missed it completely...until insane a lost on FB by a friend mentioning that he was indeed blind. I was like wtf!?? How I'd I missed that?
shareMost people won't pick up on it in their first viewing. The clues are too subtle.
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Old movies spoilers are fair game.
Once it's dvd-released, cat's out of the bag, hell some consider even
sooner than that!
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shareWhen Eli entered the abandoned house and started running his fingers along the shelves was suspect.
There were times he seemed very indirect, but extremely aware.
His ability to fight exceptionally well in the blackened underpass stood out as significant.
I think I was convinced though about 6 months before I watched he movie when some douchebag told me.
I think it's a joke