There she encounters an old nursing school chum, Babs (a wonderful Emma Rigby), who’s just as snotty as the matron and is quite amused by the quiet, mousy Val. When the hospital goes dark, the creepiness sets in, and with nothing but a handheld lamplighter, Val has to make her way through long, sinister hallways to her assigned ward. As has been established, Val is still haunted by an incident involving darkness and strangers, but out of fear of making the matron cross with her, she agrees to stay on. When the doctor takes an instant liking to Val, this displeases the matron who then forces the young timid nurse to work the overnight shift during the blackout. Val also encounters a shy 13-year-old girl named Saba (Shakira Rahman) who understands the hospital has many secrets and will torment anybody who stays. Only when she encounters Doctor Franklin (Charlie Carrick) does she feel a bit more at ease. Right away, the director of nursing takes a disliking to Val. Val starts her job being dressed down by a stern hospital director of nursing (Diveen Henry), who could give Nurse Ratched a run for her money for enforcing the rules in a hospital. Now she lives with a stigma of making up falsities. We don’t learn what occurred in that space, but when she made others aware of it, they dismissed her claims as a figment of her imagination. Memories of an incident where she was trapped in a confined dark space with a much older man when she was younger torment Val. The movie opens with Val (a fearless Rose Williams), a timid nurse working in pediatrics, in a large foreboding hospital. The Power (a title we learn later can refer to electricity, to spirits consuming the living, and to authority attempting to silence women) takes place in London, 1974, where disputes between government and trade unions have forced citizens to conserve power at night. For a movie that on its surface looks like it might be a haunted hospital yarn, it goes deeper as it explores themes of trauma, workplace discomfort, and women not being believed when coming forth to document abuse. Night Shyamalan, part Ari Aster, and part Mike Leigh, yet originally hers. From that angle, she has made a movie part M. You wouldn’t want to even imagine that, but there’s no doubt that Corinna Faith, writer, and director of The Power, has. Imagine that feeling during a power blackout, and imagine it’s your first time in that area. Where every creak and scrape can come from who knows where or who knows from whom. Imagine long, lit paths where light from the outside world doesn’t reach. ![]() But try to wonder what the secret areas of hospitals might be like. ![]() Yes, the hallways we walk down to visit loved ones are often painted brightly with large windows where daylight streams through.
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