What is it about suspense that makes us all so jumpy at the sound of a creaking door or at the sight of an unidentified figure? Is it the darkness or is it the unknown? Suspense is simply a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. In the newly released film Don’t Breathe, director Fede Alvarez does a terrifyingly terrific job at placing his audience at the edge of their seats and holding them there. Don’t Breathe isn’t just a motion picture that’ll have you guessing what’s coming next but will also have you so utterly enthralled with the dark mysteriousness of a war veteran’s home. This film is one that has created characters an audience can’t help but to invest in, a perfect mixture of predictability and plot-twists,
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Without delay we meet Alex (Dylan Minnette), the home security installer’s son; Money (Daniel Zovatto), the man who calls the shots; and Rocky (Jane Levy), the one in search for a better life; robbing their first victims home of the film. You see the panic of young Alex as he anxiously tries to disarm the alarm system, you see the cockiness and confidence of the fearless Money as he raids the closets and bedrooms, then you see the composed Rocky in the room of the teenager, slowly picking through the numbered treasures. The most compelling thing about Minnette’s character is that he doesn’t look like the kind of guy to rob a home, he looks like the kind who has been issued a subscription to unrequited love. Without hesitation it is made known who and what Alex’s motivation is for the juvenile actions. His child-like face and misplaced demeanor automatically grabs at the heart strings of the audience and we easily figure out, he’s doing this for Rocky. Jane Levy’s character is caught right in the middle of this complicated love triangle involving herself, Alex and Money. A little further into the story line the audience is able to uncover who Rocky is and why she is the way she is. At home Rocky lives with a …show more content…
Simply defined cinematography is the art or technique of motion-picture photography and ambience is the character and atmosphere of a place using sound. Director Alvarez captures suspense in this element alone. If there was an absence of characters and words, the score and camerawork would be able to stand independently as an embodiment of suspense. Due to the setting of the film – a home invasion with a blind man who is solely dependent on sound - words aren’t necessarily needed to bring the story to life. The darkness of the moon-lit house when the young delinquents enter begins to hatch an unsettlement within the viewer’s stomach. That unsettlement is then turned into a pit in the stomach of the audience when they meet Rocky and Alex in the ink-stained basement no longer as the hunter but instead as the hunted. Witnessing the two lost characters blindly feel, stumble and struggle their way to somewhere they believe is safe creates a lip biting, edge-of-seat reaction – this reaction lasts for a course of fifteen minutes. While enduring the darkness of the basement the crew’s choice in how to show the characters is to be commended. When we think about watching a movie that takes place in the dark most of us anticipate the green tint to help us see the engagements of the movie. In Don’t Breathe that surely wasn’t the
Without delay we meet Alex (Dylan Minnette), the home security installer’s son; Money (Daniel Zovatto), the man who calls the shots; and Rocky (Jane Levy), the one in search for a better life; robbing their first victims home of the film. You see the panic of young Alex as he anxiously tries to disarm the alarm system, you see the cockiness and confidence of the fearless Money as he raids the closets and bedrooms, then you see the composed Rocky in the room of the teenager, slowly picking through the numbered treasures. The most compelling thing about Minnette’s character is that he doesn’t look like the kind of guy to rob a home, he looks like the kind who has been issued a subscription to unrequited love. Without hesitation it is made known who and what Alex’s motivation is for the juvenile actions. His child-like face and misplaced demeanor automatically grabs at the heart strings of the audience and we easily figure out, he’s doing this for Rocky. Jane Levy’s character is caught right in the middle of this complicated love triangle involving herself, Alex and Money. A little further into the story line the audience is able to uncover who Rocky is and why she is the way she is. At home Rocky lives with a …show more content…
Simply defined cinematography is the art or technique of motion-picture photography and ambience is the character and atmosphere of a place using sound. Director Alvarez captures suspense in this element alone. If there was an absence of characters and words, the score and camerawork would be able to stand independently as an embodiment of suspense. Due to the setting of the film – a home invasion with a blind man who is solely dependent on sound - words aren’t necessarily needed to bring the story to life. The darkness of the moon-lit house when the young delinquents enter begins to hatch an unsettlement within the viewer’s stomach. That unsettlement is then turned into a pit in the stomach of the audience when they meet Rocky and Alex in the ink-stained basement no longer as the hunter but instead as the hunted. Witnessing the two lost characters blindly feel, stumble and struggle their way to somewhere they believe is safe creates a lip biting, edge-of-seat reaction – this reaction lasts for a course of fifteen minutes. While enduring the darkness of the basement the crew’s choice in how to show the characters is to be commended. When we think about watching a movie that takes place in the dark most of us anticipate the green tint to help us see the engagements of the movie. In Don’t Breathe that surely wasn’t the