Posts Tagged ‘Alice Braga’

Royce, a mercenary, reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet… as prey. With the notable exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers — mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members — human “predators” that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.

In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men, humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you dont pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its propertywith no concern for your comfort or survival.

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

‘Usually when I make a film, I can get started by going to Google, doing research,” Fernando Meirelles said a little nervously, a few hours before a screening in Montreal of his ambitious new movie “Blindness.” “But this is a film based on nothing,” he said. “It’s all invented – a generic city with characters who have no names and no past, who get a disease that doesn’t exist. After I got involved in the film, I realized, wow, this is like a trap.” That’s one possible metaphor. Here’s another: To make this movie in a spirit faithful to its source, a 1995 novel (of the same name) by the Portuguese Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago, Meirelles had to resign himself to flying blind.

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