Continuing on with my Summer’s End post, the movie Blindness caught my eye (oh the jokes just keep on coming at Dead Robot Heavy Industries).

I have to admit that Julianne Moore has been on my “oh my god I hope her career is tremendous and full of really great work!” radar since I first saw her in Safe, but in the last 5 years she’s made some questionable decisions (koff koff Next koff koff The Forgotten koff Laws of Attraction keff kuff hek) only to be replaced with amazing parts, like The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (god who thought of that memorable title?) or like Julia in Children of Men (blink during the really fake ping pong ball trick just before her death – such a crappy cgi gimmick should not have been in there to distract from her death).

Curiously enough, the screenplay is by Canadian Don McKellar, mostly know for hipster projects like Road Kill, Childstar, and the Tony award winning The Drowsy Chaperone . I’m curious to see how he’s handled José Saramago’s novel since he’s been in apocalyptic territory before with his 1998 Sandra Oh sci-drama Last Night. Oh and he was in TV’s Robocop for an episode, but so was my brother so I won’t mention that one, but it’s nice to know he’s dabbled in respected science fiction, so there’s some promise there.

Combine all that with the director, Fernando Meirelles (City of Men, The Constant Gardener), I have a feeling it’s going to be a smart movie. Like Gattica, but without the nice clothes.