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Don’t Breathe
Blaine: I saw the trailer for “Don’t Breathe” and found out it was doing well and this was in May 2016. It has to be the most original horror feature I’ve seen in a while.
Plot (Spoiler Alert)A trio of thieving teenagers find out this blind man has a lot of dough and they intend to steal it from him. They try to rob him during the night, but what they don’t know is that they are in for a surprise. The blind man is veteran and once he is aware of the people inside his house they are trapped within the house. Two get killed…...one escapes.
Blaine: There are some horror movies like the classic slasher movies, “Friday the 13th”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Halloween” where you’re rooting for the maniac, the character who is dangerous and who is killing people and in “Don’t Breathe” I rooted for the blind man through almost the whole movie. Even though he is twisted inside by impregnating a woman with his child, still those kids should know better than to steal from him. They think they can get away with anything, but everyone meets their doom at some point. I wasn’t afraid they would get caught by him because I didn’t want them to escape. The blind man isn't completely useless even though his sight doesn’t work, but still his sense of smell and hearing still work. Plus he is physical and can strike with the fist. He was a loving husband and father, but he lost them both, but it’s the daughter he lost tragically because she was run over by a woman named Cindy. His daughter was everything to him and the rich girl won the case and went free when she should have done hard time. Cindy’s family gave the blind man the money as a forgiveness, but he wanted a child again so he took the person responsible, Cindy, and got her pregnant, but he doesn’t explain how he was able to kidnap her and have locked up in his basement without his sight. These three only rob from people who are wealthy and they are professionals by finding a way into the house and tripped the alarms, but they always leave a mark that they have been there by breaking a window and pissing on the floor. When they try to rob the blind man it’s almost like they are in a maze you’re having a hard time trying to make it though the exit because there is something in the way. Jane Levy described Rocky as both a bad guy and a good guy because the audience is supposed to be rooting for her to start a new life with her little sister who she is more of a mother to. I get that Rocky wants to do what is best for her little sister by giving her a better life, but what she is doing isn’t right and that’s the other half that is the bad guy. She doesn’t give up even when she feels all hope is lost, she’ll find a way to get out this tough situation both she and her friends have gotten herself into. And the blind man keeps coming back and back and back and cannot be easily defeated. She tries to escape him two or three times, but she never gives up. She has a lady bug tattoo that to her is a symbol of hope because it made her feel safe and company after her drunk mother had locked her up in the back of the truck once and it saved her life by Alex is someone who is sort of a nice guy, but the reason he steals is because he wants money so he can go to law school. He wants a future, he is not happy where he lives and he thinks stealing the money is the only option he has. His dad is a police officer and he steals his dad’s key that can get into anywhere and that’s how Alex, Rocky and Money break into the houses. Alex is also the sweet boy Rocky deserves and not a bastard like Money. Rocky is Alex’s only weakness because he’ll do whatever she says. There’s a deleted scene showing her kissing him after he saved her from getting pregnant by the blind man. Rocky demands to know what the blind man had done with her backpack with the money inside and Alex feels they should just leave and go to the police, so she stops him by kissing him and tells him let’s get the money first and leave together and he is ok with that. For me it’s saying she is just using him and the kiss is a way of seducing him. She probably does like him, but she is not leaving with out the money. Next to surviving and escaping the house, the money is the most important thing to Rocky because she is doing it for her sister and the dream of California and nothing will stop her from doing it. I almost thought both Alex and Rocky were going to get away with it after Alex saved Rocky from getting a seed into her egg, but then when you least suspect it, Alex gets shot dead by the blind man. And I was like “YES”. Rocky realizes she is to blame for Alex’s death because he didn’t feel it was a good idea to rob the blind man in the first place and he’s done so much for her and she just used him. I wasn’t disappointed that Rocky escaped and survived because she has to live with the fact that the blind man is still alive and she has live in fear because of that even though he can’t find her, but just the thought of knowing the nightmare isn’t over. It’s sort of a happy ending because Rocky has accomplished her goal of getting enough money for her and her sister to leave Detroit forever, but what she went through and knowing the person she probably fears the most in the world is still alive will haunt her. I’m very happy the blind man is alive and doesn’t get arrested. He was smart enough to hide the evidence that he had Cindy by hiding her in underneath the basement floors. My rating on “Don’t Breathe” is five out of five. |