tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4923963305814308874.post4399256162569669328..comments2012-01-18T10:37:05.893-08:00Comments on Dying on the Outside: She Blinded Me with BlindnessBenny Profanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08147001300357268552noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4923963305814308874.post-85747436005642545702009-07-14T19:02:12.686-07:002009-07-14T19:02:12.686-07:00love this review. it's rare to find others who...love this review. it's rare to find others who genuinely love this film. I'm as mystified as you regarding the overwhelmingly negative critical response. I actually think the film is Meirelles' best film and considering the hateful reaction perhaps the most radical film of the year (I wrote a lengthy analysis here: http://daveguzman.blogspot.com/2009/06/underrated-film-1-blindness.html).David Marin-Guzmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06696488378134775986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4923963305814308874.post-56491812376673954422008-11-07T18:09:00.000-08:002008-11-07T18:09:00.000-08:00And it might be predictable coming from you but I ...And it might be predictable coming from you but I really think that the perception/being stuff is what the film is actually about. Also, its pretty interesting to think of vision--at least in its role as collaborator with and agent of mediation and spatial/temporal abstraction--as a kind of prosthesis.Benny Profanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08147001300357268552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4923963305814308874.post-17554951153325122162008-11-07T16:36:00.000-08:002008-11-07T16:36:00.000-08:00I love that choir.I love that choir.Benny Profanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08147001300357268552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4923963305814308874.post-66399998282490653892008-11-01T09:29:00.000-07:002008-11-01T09:29:00.000-07:00Ditto, bravo, worthy of a salvo. I think the (I k...Ditto, bravo, worthy of a salvo. I think the (I know, totally predictable coming from me) phenomenological underpinnings of the film inherently link ideas of perception and being. So, you're exactly right, the metaphor is no metaphor at all, at least not at its initiation. The film is actually about not seeing. The political and epistemological reflections are easily seen, but the primary effect is on the level of being. Are we still humans if none of us can see? Are we more human in the sense that humanity has been lurching toward a sort of post-human state of constant prosthesis and abstraction? I think the critics were pissed off by being subjected to the film, which is clearly a state of protesting too much, no? Anyway, the choir agrees with you wholeheartedly.Chris Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10411785339442645648noreply@blogger.com