21/11/2008 (selected cinemas)

Fernando Meirelles

Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Maury Chaykin, Don McKellar

Morality tale imagining the breakdown of society when almost the entire population is robbed of its sight. The American government segregates the initial cases of "White Sickness" in an abandoned mental asylum, including a doctor and his wife, who feigns blindness to remain by her husband's side. As food supplies dwindle, a bartender in ward three exploits the situation to his advantage, forcing other patients to trade their personal belongings for sustenance. The trinkets invariably run out so the bartender and his pernicious sidekick propose a shocking new barter system: "Women for food".

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