Dancing became a metaphor for blindness and insight in "Eyes of the Soul," the choreographically inventive work by Ramón Oller that was the highlight of a sharply danced performance by Ballet Hispánico on Sunday afternoon.
I read Saramago's novel when I was writing "Five Days at Memorial," and I appreciated the metaphor of blindness for what often happens in a disaster, which is that we lose the ability to see the larger context of the events, something disaster nerds call "situational awareness".
Ondaatje's fascination with the metaphor of blindness (think of the burned Almasy, temporarily unable to see, in "The English Patient," or Ananda in "Anil's Ghost," who paints eyes on statues of Buddha and whose craft might restore the identity of one long dead) is once again in evidence here: Segura is half-blinded as a boy in a freak accident involving a dog bursting through a pane of glass.
I told my cinematographer, "Let's move this camera, which is getting the complementary angle, and make it completely frontal so it's up on his face for this first part of the scene where he's telling his stories, because this is a metaphor for blindness". These killings were partly the result of US's anticommunist influence.
The story is not about physical blindness, she added, but "a metaphor for our nearsighted existence".
This is another metaphor of attention blindness, 'cause we all think we know what school and work are.
And yes, both characters seem empty: the cigarette smoke in their eyes is a metaphor for individual blindness.
Curtis solution was happy and wistful at once: we laughed out loud at the literal fun of child's play, and pondered the metaphor for the colour blindness that exists before prejudice and xenophobic fear are learned.
Lithuanians don't do metaphor – Danny is wearing a blindfold to highlight the blindness of his love.
Blindness, which was filmed by Fernando Meirelles in 2008 was, Saramago said, a metaphor for the way in which the richer nations pursue ever greater wealth to the continuing impoverishment of the already poor.
