Blindness

Today for class we finished watching the movie Blindness. The film adaptation of the book blindness both includes and excludes some aspects of the novel. One change that occurred in the movie was that the women who set her self on fire was an associate of the Doctor's wife.. In the novel the women who sets herself one fire was from a different ward and had no association with the Doctor's wife. This change was a positive in my book because it wasn't necessary to introduce another character only to have to kill her off. However one change that I didn't particularly like was when the film excluded the crazy neighbor who resides at the girl with the brown glasses home. This change takes away some of the cruelty of the situation. The crazy lady is also one of the few people we get to witness closely after the group leaves the mental hospital. Also I felt that the relationship between the one eyed old man and the girl with the brown glasses wasn't as developed in the film version.