why do they not speak????
from the way that samson pronounced his name it appears that he may not speak very good english, that said, why did they not communicate on a verbal level???
shareSamson has a very bad stutter and such people usually try to avoid speaking as much as possible because it's so hard. Delilah can speak but stays quiet to respect Samson's silence. I think also a lot of their silence is due to the fact that they just don't have much to say. Can you imagine how many boring hours and days they've lived in between the few dramatic scenes the film shows?
This is from the Samson and Delilah FAQ (http://samsonanddelilah.com.au/faqs.php):
Why don’t the characters talk much?
Warwick [the director] thinks it’s more realistic for them to not speak too much from his own experience. There is a lot of communication that happens between them – it’s just not necessarily verbal. They use a lot of hand signals, which is a common language in Central Australia to communicate over long distances and traditionally to keep quiet when you entered someone else’s land.