Oh, the brave, brittle wit of these souls in jeopardy as darkness closes in! "Shadows," at least in this interpretation, feels distressingly like a waxworks tableau.
"If you've been a young British actor in the past 10 years, you'll have been up for it," says Redmayne, as darkness closes in outside and someone from the pub lights a fire behind us.
For a time, they carry her, with difficulty, down the slick, winding trail in a handy stretcher but, as darkness closes in and snowflakes begin to fall, they change their minds, put her down on the cold ground, and, smoking many Gitanes, debate their situation in their inscrutable language.
As the group began its descent, authorities said, the darkness closed in quickly and they decided to make a camp on a steep hillside.
Suddenly, it was as if he were in prison; melting to the floor, he twitched and writhed until darkness closed in.
As the darkness closes in, one light burns steady.
Yet what finally moves one is the way the two heroes, as the darkness closes in, cling to each other for comfort.
Jashin is once again sealed away, the Dark Sword then breaks apart, the Gate of Darkness closes and disappears, and Ryu flees with Irene out of the temple just as it collapses.
Darkness closes around us.
