The player card is just an opportunity. Amirah could have stayed with the bottom..Amanda was good at selling her idea of changing to the easier pussy path ..
I can't recall the players complaining about the darkness. Actually the actual vision is not as dramatic as it appears on the screen. It might sound too technical, but the human eye is able to process a much wider range of lightness-darkness spectrum than the camera.
When we stand innthe set, we are able to see the black walls for example, while on the camera those walls often vanish in the void.