Darkness Falls

General: Theme (DF)

1. Theme: Proverbs 16:18, KJV, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." Pride is often the result of fear of failure. Fear of not being the best when one actually is the best as Rally Witts is as a painter takes the fear to a whole new level. The theme of Darkness Falls will no doubt have some emotional cross-overs with the movie, Henry, starring Harrison Ford. Being a control freak can make those, who are nearest you to be terribly afraid. When giftedness has been destroyed and rebuilt from scratch, then a greater giftedness with a loving personality can make the hero much greater and better than he originally was.

Unlike Harrison Ford's character, Rally does not start out mean and controlling, he is simply a world-class painter, who actually is better than everybody else, but he is unaware of how much better he is, and with his mind, that remains somewhat concrete even into adulthood, he doesn't understand why everyone can't paint like he does. "It's so simple!" he says, "Just do it!" Rally is truly a natural. He doesn't realize how natural he was as a painter, until his sight is taken away, and he has to learn how to paint without sight from scratch.

2. Resolution: Proverbs 18:24, KJV, “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” Many things are found in this theme. Physical blindness can lead to spiritual sight. Not needing others gives way to great improvement through needing others. The sin of premarital sex can be redeemed through Salvation and marriage to the one you love. The one, who knows how topain greatly with his sight can become a grace-filled people, who improves his own skills through teaching his wife many of these skills, while allowing her to give to him through her sight and guidance of his skills. Pride and fear die in the loss of the original skill of painting, while an entirely new skill of painting is learned by Rally & Jessie, both separately and corporately.