Power of Darkness 01/26 Blu-ray (Rental)
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Fernando Vidal, a formerly wealthy man now living in a tiny single room in Buenos Aires, is accosted one evening by someone who claims to be a childhood friend. Vidal denies ever having met him, but the stranger turns up at his threadbare apartment and begins asking about their childhood, reminding Fernando how he would catch birds and poke out their eyes just to see if they could fly without sight. The long-suppressed memories begin to haunt him, and he grows increasingly detached from reality: a seemingly drunk neighbour warns of a huge bird, blind men seem to be everywhere in the city, some following him through the night-time streets, and the 'friend' claims to have discovered a secret society of the blind plotting to take over the world. Following a series of clues into an old apartment building, Fernando becomes lost in a vast dark labyrinth where bizarre visions flash in and out of view. Part crazed conspiracy theory, part horror story and part philosophical inquiry, the film — based on Ernesto Sábato's novel On Heroes and Tombs — is a descent into madness, or a discovery of the truth.