Don't Breathe
Damn, this thriller has so many twists and turns, it alternates many times between “this sucks” and “this is awesome”. A very fine film for such limited budget and cast.
This is an home invasion meets monster movie, where the monster is the blind guy getting his home invaded (plus the rottweiler). There is a final girl, and damned if she doesn’t earn her happy ending, there’s like dozens of potential endings. The director also saw Panic Room, but the references are not so overt they ruin the experience.
There are so many endings, you can almost stop the film in any scene past the first half hour, and you get a self contained film.
The plot is barebones, but it fits the bill: a trio of burglars gets into bigwig homes and steal property, always below the 10k$ threshold for felony. They then fence the stuff, but they are getting robbed by that guy, there’s no honour among thieves.
The brute is just a regular white trash street smart. He’s the least important character, dies soon, the chick’s “boyfriend”, even though they don’t really talk much. He’s basically Raoul with the stupid Jared Leto hair, or Alien from Spring Breakers.
The smart guy is not so smart, he’s just a nerd whose father works in a security company, so he’s the man on the inside. He’s a legal nerd, always with the proper nomenclature, but he’s weak willed. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy to do these kind of things, he could as well steal people’s property legally by being an attorney, I think he just wants to hang out with the chick. He’s basically Jared Leto.
The chick is the heart of the team. She lives with her little sister and her even more white trash mother, with a bum stepfather who lives there, sucking on their resources. She is highly motivated to get some money so she can take her little sis and get out of there. She’s basically Forest Whitaker.
The monster is a old vet from Iraq (what, he enlisted in his 50s?), someone who only gets icky when entering into spoilers territory. His daughter died and he lives alone in South Detroit house, an absolute dump. Turns out the daughter in the pictures was killed in a car crash, but he kidnapped the driver that killer her and keeps her locked up in the basement, alive and kicking. She is kept there as a breeder, he wants a new child and keeping a woman locked up is one way to create them.
Shenanigans make him kill the breeder, so her replaces her with our chick. He says, and I quote, “I’m no rapist, I never forced himself on her”, while taking one of those big baking pipette filled with his own cum, liberally applies scissors to her underwear area, and prepares to jam that semen right in her vagina. Nu-uh, it’s not rape if I don’t use my dick! What’s this, Hide and Seek?
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