Blindness

In the first article that was on about.com, they say, "Blindness is no more an appropriate 'metaphor' than other physical characteristics, like hair color or ethnicity." I agree with this statement completely. I think that after seeing the trailor for the movie, it seems very offensive to portray blindness as an epidemic which needs to be contained. They also mention, "Blind people in this film are portrayed as incompetent, filthy, vicious, and depraved." This is exactly how I found them to be portrayed in the short movie trailor and therefore I can only imagine how poorly they would be portrayed in the movie as a whole. It is ignorance to think blind people live this way. Not only is it ignorance but it is also offensive and when something hurts a group of people something should be done to stop it. Although this movie seems like it would be suspensful and interesting, after reading the article I do not think I would watch the movie because it is supporting something that is hurting a group of people. That does not seem morally right to me. National Federation of the Blind Condemns and Deplores the Movie Blindness and therefore I think we should listen to this group and take their feelings and objectives to heart. This would not be allowed if we replaced blindness with black people or indians and therefore it should not be tolerated for this cultural group either.