Showing posts with label Michael Redgrave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Redgrave. Show all posts

Friday, September 30, 2011

Nuanced Terror: Jack Clayton's The Innocents


Light and shadow flicker across the screen. Sobs are heard as a pair of praying hands, clasping and unclasping, appear. The sobbing continues.

A woman’s suffering face appears above the tortured hands. Birds twitter…her distraught voice whispers…

All I want to do is save the children not destroy them. More than anything I love children. More than anything they need affection, love, someone who will belong to them and to whom they will belong.