Don't Breathe (aka Cinema Hate Crimes)
We've seen plenty of dumb movies on this show, but this may be the first that actively tried to make us hate it.
Fear Level: Existentially disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: RAPE, assault, sexual assault, ableism, dog related violence
Trigger Warnings: RAPE, assault, sexual assault, ableism, dog related violence
Y'all, this is a tough one. Let's put it out there - the third act twist is RAPE. For two acts this movie walks a fine line along the edge of abielism, then it very intentionally throws itself off of a horrible and disgusting cliff.
- Director: Fede Alvarez
- Writers: Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues
- Stars: Stephen Lang (Avatar, Freddy Lounds in Manhunter), Jane Levy (Evil Dead, Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist), Dylan Minnette (Let Me In, Lost), Daniel Zovatto (Greg from It Follows)
- What’s it about?
- Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems.
Topics of Discussion:
- Chekov's everything
- What the fuck is up with Money?
- Tyler Perry melodrama
- Ableism
- A good movie wrapped in a trashbag full of bricks and dumped in the river
- Third act rape twists: a thesis.
- Disabled people as monsters
- Veterans as monsters
- Happy dogs pretending to be scary dogs
- These very dead protagonists
Recommendations:
- Center for Disabilty Rights article by Dominick Evans called “Don’t Breathe Uses Blindness as a Plot Device while Casting a Seeing Actor”
- Laura Kremmel - http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/disability-in-dont-breathe/
- John Wiswell - Evil Isn’t a Disability - https://firesidefiction.com/evil-isnt-a-disability
- Jordan Phillips - http://thebigpicturemagazine.com/thousand-words-the-horrors-of-sensory-disability-the-actualisation-of-disabled-power-in-hush-and-dont-breathe/
- Being Seen - Elsa Sjunneson https://www.snarkbat.com/being-seen
- Hush
- Silver Bullet
- A Quiet Place
- Wait Until Dark
- “Granny”
- Mad Max: Fury Road,
- Monkey Shines
- Deafula
- Netflix's "Daredevil"
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