Book of eli who is blind

He was not born blind. He was blinded during armageddon, but after finding the Bible was given his sight back in order to complete the task given to him by God. Once his task was completed he once again lost his sight. He was given his sight back by God in order to complete the task he was given, only to lose it once again after it was completed.

Answer: Believe he is partially blind. You don't need to be completely blind to need to learn braille. He is not blind. He sees cars coming runs into the house and immediately checks the windows. Answer: He was blind before the flash. That's how he could read braille, and had a braille bible. Remember, he asked Solaris' mother when she lost her sight - she said before the flash. That's why she also could read braille. He was totally blind. God gave him the ability to do what he did.

Answer: I think everyone missed something that is completely obvious. He always reacts. He never starts at first.

During the gunfight he never once fired upon someone unless he was shot at first. During the bridge fight, he did not attack anyone until they screamed or were close enough to where he was feeling them. When he found the body hanging in the closet and he felt it with his hands from head to foot and felt the boots. Same thing with the car with the skeleton.

He felt all the way down and realised it did not have boots. Every fight scene and everything he did in this movie was a reaction to somebody else doing something first. Answer: It's clear from examining his eyes in various shots throughout the film that he is not blind for most of it.

He was almost certainly blind before his journey began, then is sight was restored so he could complete the task. There are several scenes where his eyes can be seen. They are brown and when he talks to people, he looks them in the eye. At the end of the film, his eyes go gray, showing he is blind again. If you disagree, then please present evidence to refute my theory, rather than simply stating an opinion. Do you disagree that his eyes are brown throughout the film, then go gray at the end?

Do you disagree that he looks people directly in the eye? Do you disagree that he is able to aim and shoot at distances a blind person wouldn't be able to?

The idea is that he was blind to begin with. The fact they didn't show his eyes grey is that it would reveal that fact and make the movie look stupid.

The way they approach it is the surprise at the end that it turns out he is blind, not that he had gone blind again. If wasn't blind during the movie there would have been no point in showing him blind at the end, nor would it be logical he has a braille bible that he knows by heart.

We'll just have to disagree. My take was that he was blind previously hence his ability to read braille and his use of his other senses but was given sight to complete his task, then lost his sight just before death. He only reacts to his senses, the scene where the man is hanging, Eli smells him; he does not see him. The scene with the hijackers, he goes under the bridge, soo he can hear their movement using echolocation.

The shootout scene if you listen very closely when Carnegie is speaking to him, Eli clicks his tongue using echolocation again. The scene with the couple as he is walking up to their home, he makes the clicking noises again and bangs of the door with the gun to listen to the sound. In the shootout scene, Eli only shoots at those who were firing at him; which was in the direction of the gunshot sounds.

The scene where he gives up the book and is shot, he stands up and looks around with confusion because he does not know who else is there, and he blindly swings his knife around to try to fight back. He was able to do what he did due to God's protection and guidance. Hence "Walk by Faith not by Sight".

Question : Throughout the movie at different times there were references to people's hands. Like when Eli takes off his gloves to show the engineer his hands and says I'm not one of them. Did anyone see an explanation for this in the movie? Answer: Kuru, a disease caused by cannibalism, causes victims to shake.

Answer: He was showing them he wasn't a cannibal. He didn't have the shakes they get. Question : Why, when he gets shot, does he put duct tape on his abdomen over his shirt? Shouldn't it be under? Answer: Not really, imagine how painful the duct tape would be to remove from the bare skin around a wound. Putting it over the shirt still applies the pressure needed but with out the adhesive skin contact which would cause more problems later on.

There are many signs that he's not in fact blind. For example, in the first house he finds, he wakes up just as the sun hits his face. He also knows his way around unfamiliar territory all too well for a blind man - well for a sighted man, in fact. He's able to follow the road without a cane. He's also able to tell the difference between day and night.

If he were completely blind he could travel at night and need less water, etc. Answer: No. Eli is not blind. There are moments where you could construe he was blind only after you decided he was.

In the first house Eli holes up in, he looks at the mouse, he roots through his bag, while moving his head to see better into the bag. He looks out the window the next day, moving his eyes to and fro to take in the situation. He can see the Pawn Shop owner's finger on the trigger. These exploiters would bend and twist the words of the Bible or other scriptures to their benefit and rallying people to their cause. Redridge fired one shot at Eli with his pistol and by the sounds of it, completely missed.

The second shot, he took his time, gripped his pistol properly, aimed, fired and if you notice he hit Eli in his backpack. If we are going with realism here, it could be said that improper maintenance caused the pistol to be significantly less accurate, so even if Redridge was aiming directly at Eli, if there was a significant amount of dirt or build-up in the barrel, it could cause the bullet to stray far off course.

This would explain why Redridge looked at the gun after he fired his first shot. Possibly one of his machetes, the bible, or something else. If you want to go with certain mystical qualities the film presents, it could be said that divine intervention stopped the bullets.

Alternatively, several scenes hint that Redridge may be a reluctant killer in a brutal world, hiding a good heart beneath a normally uncompromising exterior and that he found himself unable to kill Eli without flinching at the last second and missing.

His condition must have worsened while Solara was driving him to San Francisco and he must have been beyond the help that the Alcatraz people could have given him. Also he lures the rest of them in to a dark tunnel before fighting them. He has extraordinary hearing and sense of smell. In several scenes, sounds of babies, shooting guns, movement, and sometimes almost insignificant sounds are emphasized.

He searches the shelves of the first house he checks in the beginning of the movie, before he finds the dead body by running his hand over them. When he finds the dead body hanging, it is very clear that his shock is caused by the doors falling off the hinges, not the sight of the dead person.

Eli had one crucial mission which is to ensure the safety of the last copy of the Bible until it reaches its destination. He had been on this journey for the last 30 years, heading to the west where the mysterious voice had been leading him to. Along his long expedition, he was able to read and memorize the whole content of the book that was entrusted to him before it was taken by the antagonist named Carnegie who was a selfish and greedy ruler of a town. Regardless of the hindrance and other obstacles he had to overcome, he managed to reach the western part of North America where he found a group of people who had the objective of preserving the remaining pieces of literature.

At that place, he recited the New King James version of the Bible all from his memory. Eli succeeded in his mission and eventually died with dignity. Meanwhile, Carnegie took back the stolen Bible to his place. He soon found out that the whole book was written in Braille and all this time, Eli was reading it through this way. He knew nothing about Braille and his blind wife, Claudia, lied to him about not knowing how to read it. In the end, despair and defeat were the only things he was left with.

At the end of the movie, it was revealed that the main character, Eli, has some kind of fogginess in his eyes. It gives the allusion that he was blind all throughout the movie or perhaps he suffered from an eye complication such as cataracts. Some theories tell that he was only partially blind and was still capable of detecting movements, especially in broad daylight.

It is still not certain what caused this since it was not noted in the movie. However, there are some speculations going around. One of them is that the cause of Eli becoming almost blind is the effect of the nuclear war that took place 30 years ago. As you all know, the aftermath of nuclear bombs and explosions are not to be taken lightly. Post-war effects can range from severe to critical and in some unfortunate instances could even result in death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also known as CDC, direct exposure to nuclear blasts result in serious injuries and health issues.

People who looked directly at the explosion could suffer burns on their retina, temporary blindness, and permanent damage to the eyes. Some could eventually lose their vision if exposed sufficiently to the blast. With that said, it is safe to assume that Eli may have survived the nuclear war but he did not totally dodge the grave repercussions of the war causing him to be partially blind. During the entire movie, it can be seen that Eli and everyone else wore sunglasses especially when they are outside during the day.

A lot of people have wondered what caused them to do so and the reason was never mentioned in the movie.