@deanduncan63Saw #WaitUntilDark. Impressively gender-inappropriate, to the point of gender-obliviousness. Ms. Hepburn’s character wants to be useful …
… Make soufflés. Pick ties. Choose wallpaper. Which is worse, objectification or infantilization?
#WaitUntilDark. Susy’s blindness is a stunt, or a gambit. It makes for some effective suspense …
… which is the best thing the play/film has to offer. Susy’s blindness is also a symbol of female limitation …
… à la Tom Robinson’s withered arm. Harper Lee’s idea had great power, & may now reveal serious limitations …
… Frederick Knott’s idea can’t really be much more or better than condescending.
#WaitUntilDark establishes Jack Weston’s character by having him be fat & raid the fridge.
#WaitUntilDark. Gotta admit though. That Alan Arkin really is something. No good reason or explanation for that leap …
… except that it works, which is probably reason & explanation enough.
#WaitUntilDark. Ms. Hepburn talks kinda like the offspring of Bjork and Barry Gibb.