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The episode examined the novel's depiction of an epidemic of sudden blindness that triggers societal breakdown, likening it to a zombie scenario and observing that both the book and its 2008 film adaptation portray blind people as monsters. The hosts presented this portrayal as a critique rather than a recommendation.
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The episode referenced the 2008 film adaptation of Jos Saramago's novel Blindness, noting that both the book and movie depict an epidemic of sudden blindness that leads to societal collapse and portray blind people as monsters.
In the Dark, most recently in 2008 with the release of Fernando Meireles' adaptation of Jos Saramago's novel Blindness. It argued that the film and the novel about an epidemic of sudden blindness that leads to a societal breakdown, which is in its broad strokes not unlike a zombie movie, portrayed blind people as monsters.