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Wait Until Dark

Audrey Hepburn made most of her career playing flighty, slightly naïve, child-women who posses a strong sense of grace. Think of her gamine features and coyness in roles such as Sabrina or Holly Golightly. In Wait Until Dark none of that is evident. Hepburn is playing a real woman, a woman who is smart, resourceful, independent and trying to come to terms with her recent blindness. Her husband (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is trying to get her to cope, and since he is a in-demand photographer he’s off-screen most of the time. Into her tiny world, which mostly consists of her apartment, the grocery store or her blind school, come three gangsters, two are pathetic thugs with some brawn and no brains and the last is a horrid monster strung out on more drugs than humanly imaginable (Alan Arkin). Inside of a doll, which wound up in their apartment through faintly ludicrous circumstances, are several small bags of heroin, the thugs want them. We’ve treated to an impossibly tense and claustrophobic film in which poor little Audrey Hepburn gets terrorized by the thugs.

With the lone exception of an intro that takes place outside of the apartment and in multiple locations, the main thrust of the film is in the cavernous basement apartment. She is so attuned to the layout and nature of her apartment that even the opening and closing of the blinds is noticed by her. Once she realizes that the reoccurring people in her apartment are actually the same group just playing dress up, she decides that if they’re going to storm into her sealed-off world then they’re going to do it on her own terms. Hurriedly going through the apartment smashing light bulbs and unplugging anything that might give off a light; she knows that she’ll give herself the upper hand when the playing field has been evened out. By the time that briefly burning matches give us the only light in the scene, the tension and terror are enough to strain and clench your jaw and muscles.
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13 years ago on 20 November 2010 02:37

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