Saturday, January 1, 2000

R

Not rated

Drama

Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Laura Fraser, Lara Flynn Boyle, Mark Dymond, Henry Breitrose, Ron Cook, Robert Daws

Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards

Land of the Blind is a satiric and timely political drama about terrorism, revolution, and the power of memory. In an unnamed place and time, an idealistic soldier named Joe (Ralph Fiennes) strikes up an illicit friendship with a political prisoner named Thorne (Donald Sutherland), who eventually recruits him into a bloody coup d'etat. But in the post-revolutionary world, what Thorne asks of Joe leads the two men into bitter conflict, spiraling downward into madness until Joe's co-conspirators conclude that they must erase him from history.