Unraveling the Shadows: How Blackout’s Screenplay Keeps You Guessing Until the Final Frame
This script didn’t give us anything like that. There’s one vague monologue early on that warns of terrible things that happen during a city-wide blackout. But, again, it’s not specific enough for us to understand the stakes. In a power outage, things get worse and worse the more time the power is down. But, how long before you have serious deaths? Cause I think, based on my own experiences, we’re talking weeks. Well then what’s the rush? It seems the rush is to prevent the inconvenient type of power outage. The kind where you’re mad your wireless is out for a few hours. Not the killer type. So, again, I ask: What are the stakes here? Cause they don’t seem that bad.