We have to have darkness: the movies don’t work without it. Even in our living room, we turn off the light to pretend.
But we know there is a greater Dark out there, the realm in which something wicked comes. Or the possibility of darkness persisting. Imagine, one day, it’s dawn and morning, but the light declines to come back. How long, then, before we start signing up for Panic 101 or living in Clickbait?
I want to talk about movies not just as attempts to get at our credit cards and our hearts, but as a cyclone system in which the dark and the Dark are bumping together.
Source: https://www.altaonline.com/culture/movies-tv-shows/a38405869/dark-screens-david-thomson/