Hush And Don T Brea Film Analysis

Hush, a suspenseful thriller. Is where a young, deaf writer (Maddie) gets her home invaded by a killer with a crossbow. He hunts her down in a game of cat and mouse, where she is a prisoner in her own home. On the other hand, there is the film, Don’t Breathe, where three thieves decide to break into a blind war veteran’s home and steal three hundred thousand dollars that were left to him by his dead daughter, but they soon discover that he is not as vulnerable as they thought. In a fight for their life, they have to escape the house alive with the cash in hand. They are both films in which there are break in’s, but the roles are reversed between each other.
Firstly, the similarities in the films are that they both show physically-impaired people in a home invasion scenario. However, the deaf woman is shown as defenseless and vulnerable a “caged canary” in which the assailant is the cat trying to get in, whereas, in Don’t …show more content…
In Hush, the woman is a young adult whom writes and is generally antisocial. But, when terrorized, she eventually overcomes her fear and impairment, and kills the assailant. In Don’t Breathe, the Blind Man is very old and is a retired war veteran whose daughter dies in a horrific accident. So, twisted and overcome with grief, he kidnaps his daughter’s killer and attempts to force her to bear his children to replace his daughter’s life. Furthermore, both characters have mental health issues, Maddie hears voices in her head whom tell her all the ways she could die whilst trying to escape, and she even sees visual hallucinations of them. In Don’t Breathe, the Blind Man suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, this is shown as when he first captures the thief and he immediately shoots him though the jaw. He is also paranoid, this is most presently shown in how many padlocks he has on everything, front door, cellar door, basement door, keys, money, back door, and he has bars on the