The Movie "Blindness"

After viewing the trailer for the movie "Blindness" I was completely uninterested and shocked that this was an anticipated movie. The movie treats blindness like a fatal epidemic that has to be immediately solved in order for people to live. Quarantining people because of their sudden blindness, only to be saved by the lone non-blind person who helps this out of this "awful" position they've been thrown into. Of course no one wishes to be blind, but to treat it as if it is despicable or contagious is rude and demeaning. I feel that this movie wouldn't have even survived or even been thought of if it were concerning race or religion. Maybe in a movie about the past, but not a futuristic movie such as "Blindness". This movie reminds me of movies such as 28 Days Later and I Am Legend, where people catch some horrible disease that turns them into villains in which case they need to be quarantined. The person who saves the day is always the person who somehow avoids the plague. Comparing blindness to these awful diseases that are depicted in those villain movies is appalling. I could possibly see this coming out years ago during much more ignorant times, but to see this movie in 2008 is sad...