![]() Later when the police visit and he has convinced them that nothing is awry in the house, he cannot shake the sound of the man’s beating heart. As the shard falls upon the eye that eighth night, the young man sees that it is open and, unable to live with the sight of the pale blue filmy thing, he kills the older man who had otherwise never caused him upset. ![]() Each night he finds the eye closed – until the eighth night. For seven nights at midnight he gradually opens the old man’s bedroom door and shines a shard of lantern light upon the man’s offensive eye. In Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story, adapted by Barrie Kosky, a man describes his obsession with the disconcerting milky raven-like eye of the old man with whom he lives. The first ten minutes of The Tell-Tale Heart are delivered in stillness. The song ‘I could have danced all night’ pumps out, but with a rumba beat. ![]() And with a strain of the eyes his body becomes just visible. There is silence as the nameless man’s face appears, a spectre – floating almost. There is silence as the house lights dim, and the blood red drapes become illuminated before opening in darkness. ![]()
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