Boycotting "Blindness"
If you venture to a movie theater today, you might see a picket line.
Demonstrations are planned outside the Century Cinemas 16 in South Salt Lake City or the Cinemark 16 in Provo, part of a nationwide effort by the National Federation for the Blind to protest the new movie "Blindness."
"Blind people in this film are portrayed as incompetent, filthy, vicious, and depraved. They are unable to do even the simplest things like dressing, bathing, and finding the bathroom," Dr. Mark Maurer, NFB's president, said in a statement. "The truth is that blind people regularly do all of the same things that sighted people do."
The movie, based on a novel by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, depicts an epidemic of blindness that suddenly strikes a large city. Fearing a contagious disease is causing the blindness, the government quarantines the newly blind in a deserted sanitarium - where mob rule, violence, sexual assault and all-around depravity run rampant.
In addition to protesting the movie's depiction of the blind, the NFB also objects to the lead character - portrayed by Julianne Moore - who still has her eyesight. "She is portrayed as physically, mentally, and morally superior to the others because she still has her sight," the NFB's release says.
Another movie opening today is sparking some activism - the Disney kiddie comedy "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" is stirring animal-protection groups to speak out against the overbreeding of Chihuahua's at inhumane and unsanitary puppy mills.
Three of the human stars of the movie - Jamie Lee Curtis, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis - appear in a YouTube ad from the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. The stars urge people who love the breed to adopt a Chihuahua from an animal shelter, instead of buying one from a pet store or online breeder.
The ad points out that one of the movie's four-footed stars, Papi (the romantic male lead, voiced in the film by George Lopez), was rescued from a shelter only a day before he was scheduled to be euthanized.
Here's the ad:
Demonstrations are planned outside the Century Cinemas 16 in South Salt Lake City or the Cinemark 16 in Provo, part of a nationwide effort by the National Federation for the Blind to protest the new movie "Blindness."
"Blind people in this film are portrayed as incompetent, filthy, vicious, and depraved. They are unable to do even the simplest things like dressing, bathing, and finding the bathroom," Dr. Mark Maurer, NFB's president, said in a statement. "The truth is that blind people regularly do all of the same things that sighted people do."The movie, based on a novel by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, depicts an epidemic of blindness that suddenly strikes a large city. Fearing a contagious disease is causing the blindness, the government quarantines the newly blind in a deserted sanitarium - where mob rule, violence, sexual assault and all-around depravity run rampant.
In addition to protesting the movie's depiction of the blind, the NFB also objects to the lead character - portrayed by Julianne Moore - who still has her eyesight. "She is portrayed as physically, mentally, and morally superior to the others because she still has her sight," the NFB's release says.
Another movie opening today is sparking some activism - the Disney kiddie comedy "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" is stirring animal-protection groups to speak out against the overbreeding of Chihuahua's at inhumane and unsanitary puppy mills.Three of the human stars of the movie - Jamie Lee Curtis, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis - appear in a YouTube ad from the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. The stars urge people who love the breed to adopt a Chihuahua from an animal shelter, instead of buying one from a pet store or online breeder.
The ad points out that one of the movie's four-footed stars, Papi (the romantic male lead, voiced in the film by George Lopez), was rescued from a shelter only a day before he was scheduled to be euthanized.
Here's the ad:
Labels: Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
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