Blindness...the movie.

I have not seen the movie Blindness, but I would like to just out of curiosity. The idea of portraying blindness as a disease, and as something to quarantine people for seems outrageous...but I have to think that perhaps that was the idea of the movie. I do not think it is an attempt to actually portray the lives of people who live with being blind so much as to present a strange situtation in a movie that people can have a lot of discussion about. When the people in the movie go blind, they become helpless, which is not true of people who are living with blindness, so I can see how that would be offensive. People have to realize though, that this movie is not meant for education, it is for entertainment purposes. Even so, people still have the right to be offended that something they deal with is being "Hollywoodized" in a way that is completely unreal.