“Blindness” may be in danger, as the National Federation of the Blind in the United States has announced that it intends to protest at theatres all around the country over the upcoming big-screen production “Blindness.”

Based on the 1995 eponymous novel by José Saramago, the movie depicts the decline of a society suffering from an epidemic of sightlessness.

Members of the Baltimore-based National Federation of the Blind found the film both offensive and cruel.

“The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie,” said Marc Maurer, president of the NFB. “Blindness doesn’t turn decent people into monsters.”

The picture directed by Fernando Meirelles is due for release on October 3 and stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Gael Garcia Bernal.

The NFB intends to organize a demonstration against the film at over 70 theatres in at least 21 states when the film is scheduled to debut.

According to Marc Maurer, “Blindness” would cause damage to those who are unable to see, as blind people in the movie are depicted as useless, dirty, brutal and immoral.

“The truth is that blind people regularly do all of the same things that sighted people do,” he explained.

José Saramago’s novel won critical acclaim for its employment of blindness as a figure of speech for the lack of communication and deference for individual stateliness in nowadays society.

Miramax Films explained that it was “saddened” to hear about the protest.

Marc Maurer said that the planned protest would be the most important in the history of the NFB, which has approximately 50,000 members.