QWhy wasn't the doctor's wife affected by the blindness?
ANo matter the disease, virus, or bacterial infection that occurs, there will always be a few in the world who are immune to it. Even currently, there are a select number of people in the world who are immune to such deadly viruses such as HIV, Ebola, and typhoid. It's completely plausible that the doctor's wife was immune to the blindness.
QWhy did the doctor's wife not use her sight advantage sooner in overthrowing the vile king of ward 3?
AWard 3's advantage, outside of having a gun, was that one of its members was naturally blind. This made any attempt of a stealth attack of just walking up and killing them much more perilous since her presence was far more likely to be detected. There was also the issue of the natural inequality between the sexes, as any advantage she might gain from her sight (even with a weapon like the scissors) would be neutralized in prolonged close-quartered hand-to-hand combat by a man's naturally superior strength. She rightly determined that her best chance was utilizing the element of surprise in a first strike capacity while her adversary and his thugs were preoccupied. It was imperative that her initial blow be absolutely lethal since any subsequent combat put her at a distinct disadvantage, not to mention his ability to call out for assistance. In order to overcome these natural disadvantages, she determines that the circumstances surrounding the first forced rape encounter offer her the best environment for success as she's seen beforehand arming herself with the scissors and positions herself to be chosen by the "king" (Gael García Bernal) before abjectly refusing his order to fellate him. But her plan goes awry when he grabs the Asian woman by the hair and threatens to shoot both of them if she does not comply. When she realizes that her attack would almost certainly result in her friend's immediate death, she concedes to his demands, to his surprise and delight. She finally succeeds within the similarly favorable environment of the Ward 2 rape. She used the natural element of surprise while the ward was preoccupied with committing rape. She sneaks up to the king, takes careful aim knowing that, if she squanders her first strike initiative, she will likely die, and she plunges the scissors deep into his eye, piercing his brain. Even then she is barely able to escape the ensuing turmoil.
QWhat is 'Blindness' about?
AWhen residents of a large city start falling prey to a mysterious epidemic of 'white' blindness, one woman (Julianne Moore) seems to be immune to it. She follows her husband (Mark Ruffalo), an opthalmologist who is struck blind soon after treating the first victim, an upscale Japanese professional (Yûsuke Iseya), to an abandoned asylum where the government has set up a designated quarantine, not knowing that the government means to imprison and abandon them with little food and no supplies. When the wards begin filling up with more and more blind people, the woman feigns blindness in order to protect her assumed family -- the Japanese man, his wife (Yoshino Kimura), a young boy (Mitchell Nye), a man with a black eye patch (Danny Glover), and a woman with dark glasses (Alice Braga) -- as the asylum community disintegrates into chaos and disorder.
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