gwax's rumblings

I recently came across a trailer for the movie Land of the Blind at the begin­ning of some DVD or other. Strangely, prior to the trailer, I hadn’t heard hide nor hair of Land of the Blind. Anyway, work­ing on the premise that the pre­view seemed mighty neat, I set about find­ing an oppor­tu­nity to watch it. Having now watched this film, I have to say that I can’t under­stand why it didn’t show up on the radar. Land of the Blind flew so low that there are only 17 reviews of it aggre­gated on Rotten Tomatoes (as opposed to the more com­mon 200ish).

Anyway, Land of the Blind fol­lows a polit­i­cal rev­o­lu­tion in a total­i­tar­ian state, from the stand­point of a mil­i­tary under­ling that befriends the head of the rev­o­lu­tion. The movie starts out kind of nor­mal and polit­i­cal but then descends into bizarre and polit­i­cal before finally descend­ing into crazy and con­fus­ing. Basically, I feel Land of the Blind has been done a ter­ri­ble injus­tice and in order to rec­tify the mat­ter I am rec­om­mend­ing it to you folks. If you’re my friend, you’ll prob­a­bly like it (Sherv, Riad, it’s right up your alleys).