Blindness

As some of you may know, a moovie called Blindness came out a few years ago. It was based on a book written by Jose Saramago, and the plot was based on everyone in the world catching this disease that made them go completely blind. In the moovie, the military put all the people who caught the disease in isolated compounds to keep the disease from spreading. However, the wife of one of the men in the compound somehow never got the disease even though she claimed she did in order to be able to stay with her husband. Throughout the moovie, the people went to the bathroom in whatever place they happened to be at the time, and "made love" with whoever was handy no matter the location. They also thought over food and attacked each other like savages, and the one sighted woman was in charge of taking care of everyone. Basically, the moovie made these people out to be involids who had less self control than most animals.When this moovie first came out, the National Federation of the Blind staged a protest. I didn't see what the big deal was untill I decided to watch the moovie last week just ton get an idea of what it was about. I was planning to read the book as well, but the moovie had me too disgusted to do so. How are we supposed to show the general public that blind people are exactly like everyone else when Hollywood is allowing stuff like this to be released. Furthermore, why blindness? Out of all the disabilities out there what makes ours so diserving of the horrible things shown on this film? I hate to break it to ignorant people who don't know any better, but blindness is not a random contageous disease, and blind people are just as able to care for themselves and others as anyone else. Why people think it's amusing to make it look otherwise is something I will never be able to understand.