Topic: Blind lobby to protest McKellar film in the U.S.
Agent 204
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posted 03 October 2008 04:55 AM
quote:Hundreds of supporters of the U.S. National Federation of the Blind are planning to protest the theatrical release tomorrow in the United States of the Canadian co-produced apocalyptic thriller Blindness, a film it has deemed "offensive" to the sight-challenged.
However, a spokesperson for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind said yesterday there are no plans to picket it here.
"CNIB is not planning any protest around the movie, Blindness," CNIB spokesperson Cathy Moore said yesterday. "In fact, we haven't even seen the film."
From here.
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Boom Boom
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posted 03 October 2008 06:58 PM
Quote:
"CNIB is not planning any protest around the movie, Blindness," CNIB spokesperson Cathy Moore said yesterday. "In fact, we haven't even seen the film."
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G. Pie
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posted 03 October 2008 07:58 PM
I was kind of interested in this film and saw a trailer for it yesterday. How on earth is it offensive to the blind?
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RevolutionPlease
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posted 03 October 2008 08:43 PM
Not having viewed it, in this era of fear-mongering, I'd be upset too.
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Agent 204
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posted 04 October 2008 01:16 PM
It seems this is the objection:
quote:Earlier in the week, Marc Maurer, president of the Baltimore-based National Federation of the Blind, told AP he fears the movie "could undermine efforts to integrate blind people into the mainstream.
"The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie," said Maurer. "Blindness doesn't turn decent people into monsters."
Now I haven't seen the movie yet either (though, as a McKellar fan, I probably will) but my understanding is that the "turning into monsters" is about how people often react in a catastrophe (which in the movie happens to be a blindness pandemic). Obviously Maurer doesn't see the distinction, though.
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