I don't think your supposed to think he is blind until the end. Then your like damn he's blind He walked by faith.....

I go blind everytime I complete a mission.

It sucks.

Spoiler alert??? Movie is damn old.

I've been waiting until I can see it for free. My father was a Scot, what can I say?

Why do people here keep saying there is no God?

Book of Eli threads are troll threads that troll for trolls and then get trolls to troll other trolls and then the trolls don't know who got trolled but all of the trolls feel like they trolled somebody so they are happy about trolling even though they got trolled into trolling in the first place and then all of the trolls forget that while they were busy trolling there is that one dude who really doesn't know that Denzel was FUCKING BLIND!!!

I think you missed the entire point of the entire movie, entirely.

He wouldn't have been in a hurry to kick her out of his room when we has staying over....  

Actor  did such a Fantastic job in that movie but he topped himself in The Fifth Element,  Shawshank Redemption , and Blazing Saddles. Tier one all the way.

Some douche bag mechanic ruined it when I was dropping off a LMTV after some training thing. Stupid mechanics . Still a good movie.

 

Tell that to Marcus Luttrell's face.  

The movie juxtaposes belief and religion.  Eli believes in God, heard his voice.  He is sincere, but the initial reaction is that he is imbalanced - just another religious crazy. Carnegie believes in Religion, but not God, and is seen as rational - evil, but rational.  The ending recasts those roles: Eli is shown to be sane, and God *was* guiding his steps.  Literally.  And Carnegie is shown to be metaphorically blind - he could not see that he was losing the power he already had while he was chasing something that only existed in his mind.

This is also where the viewer has a choice.  If Eli was blind, he could not have done all the things that he did without divine intervention or being literally super-human.  Since it really doesn't feel like a superhero movie (for one thing, he dies at the end), if the viewer cannot believe that there was divine intervention in the movie the only choice is that he could see.  There's no bridging the gap.  It is the same with more mundane miracles. If there is no rational explanation for something good happening, the believer says that God must have intervened, because it could not have happened any other way.  The non-believer says that, since God does not exist, there MUST be another explanation that we simply haven't found yet.

The filmmakers ended the movie right on the knife edge of faith.  Pretty good job, too.

it amazes me how the "walk by faith, not by sight" theme is lost on some people.

Sounds like the movie should have been called Book of Daredevil.

If he was blind, why did he wear sunglasses?

Because if he wasn't, it would be even easier to tell that he was blind, since blind people generally stare straight forward.  It would have ruined the story they were going for.

Nope



 

 

Shush your logic and mechanics of proper story telling. Shush it now.



 

Not to mention everyone else was wearing sunglasses due to the Event that fucked the Earth's mesophere...so he'd stand out like a sore thumb.

Just saw this in another thread, and thought it was a perfect response to those saying that he was not blind for the entire movie:

9mm vs 45
Beans vs no beans
Was Eli blind

My favorite kind of threads!

I agree, but I'm still going with the bionic eye theory.

1) Everyone in the movie wore sunglasses outside.  If he didn't he would stick out like a sore thumb.
2) Bright sun can still be painful to your eyes even if you can't "see."
3) It's customary for the blind to wear sunglasses.  He was old for the times; he would have remembered that custom.

Exactly! The blind don't wear sunglasses!