POINT/COUNTERPOINT: Does Blindness Turn People Into Monsters?

In the latest installment of people protesting some random movie and thus giving it way more publicity than it deserves, a group of blind people are protesting the upcoming film “Blindness,” saying it portrays the condition of blindness in an unfairly negative manner. Let’s check out both sides of the argument.

POINT: Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind

Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who’s blind, such a scenario — as shown in the movie “Blindness” — is not a clever allegory for a breakdown in society.

“The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie,” said Maurer, president of the Baltimore-based National Federation of the Blind. “Blindness doesn’t turn decent people into monsters.”

COUNTERPOINT: Dan Hopper, President of the “When Will People Learn That They’re Just Giving These Movies More Free Publicity” Club (formed one minute ago)

Then how do you explain THIS??????