So because very narrow-minded and unimaginative people love to rent Hollywood as a piñata, filmmaker Fernando Meirelles' Blindness — which imagines a mysterious epidemic that causes people to see nothing but fuzzy white light, resulting in a collapse of social order in an unnamed American city — is being protested by blind people. "The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie," said Marc Maurer, president of the Baltimore-based National Federation of the Blind. "Blindness doesn't turn decent people into monsters."

The organization plans to protest the movie — based on the 1995 novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, and starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover, among others — at 75 theaters around the country when it's released Friday by Miramax Films. Blind people and their advocates will hand out fliers and carry signs. Among the slogans: "I'm not an actor. But I play a blind person in real life."



Stupid blind people... protesting the movie without even seeing it. Sigh...