Land of the Blind (2006)

Land of the Blind: Directed by Robert Edwards. With Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Lara Flynn Boyle. A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country’s authoritarian government.

“When I read the cast list for this film i thought u0026quot;hey with these people it should be great!u0026quot; well… itu0026#39;s not great, but it does do a good job at exposing the hypocrisy of power, and who is better suited to govern, a single person/regime or that amorphous element named u0026quot;The Peopleu0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDonald Sutherland and Rafe(donu0026#39;t call me Ralph!) Fiennes, give wonderful acting performances, and there are many great supporting roles too. Including the lovely Lara Flynn Boyle, (watch for the scene with her in a skin tight latex dress playing kinky sex games with her husband!,it made the rental price, for me anyway, worth paying ! Woo Hoo!).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere is a lot of interesting and intelligent dialog through out the film too , the director/writer is obviously a literate man.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMy problem, is that this film tries to hard to be too many things at once.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBTW, the poem that Sutherlandu0026#39;s and Fiennesu0026#39; characters quote is by William Butler Yeats and itu0026#39;s named u0026quot;The Second Comingu0026quot;, and the haunting piano music you hear, you might remember is also used in u0026quot;Barry Lyndonu0026quot; and I believe is written by Mozartu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s definitely worth a rental though.”