In the dark

I don’t watch that much TV or film, except for cookery programmes and crime dramas… Cookery shows always have brilliant lighting, but so often with crime shows everything is in the dark

people come home after a night out; they go into their house and wander around without putting the light on… I’ve never done that, and I don’t think I know anyone who has. You arrive home, go inside and switch the lights on… not in movies! Or a goody is chasing a baddy who goes into a building; it’s dark… does the goody wait to find the light switch, or to wait for reinforcements who have torches? No the, goody rushes into the building and chases around (without bumping into anything, or tripping over, or stubbing their toe) and however enormous the building is, whether they rush up the unlit stairs, or down the unlit stairs into the unlit cellars, they never get lost and they always seem to find who they’re looking for… I admit that sometimes they do get shot though! Another favourite dark place is an old ship at night, a vast, huge, massive old ship… no lights, and yet everyone goes rushing about.

I know it is supposed to make it exciting and increase the tension, but it just doesn’t seem realistic, either that all these places wouldn’t have lights, or that someone would go into it and into danger like that…
OK, moan over… now back to watching some Scandi-noir!