I would like to think I do this with film. We can change the man that she loves for a child that she loves. I made a cynical little synopsis. But this about the blindness came much later, after I wrote the first script. I was thinking in more opera terms.
Opera is more like melodrama.
And the good thing about opera is that if you can accept that people sing instead of talk, then you don't have to go in and out of it. And that means you can have your emotions with you. Whereas in on opera, they play all the time. But a more honorable way to do it, the way I have done, is to use her imagination to go in and out of it. Dreyer, yes, he was a terrific filmmaker.