What else happened this year? A referendum to leave the EU for the UK, and Trump getting elected in the US. Not a great year to be a lib-tard, all told.
What is the plot - in one sentence? A deaf-mute woman who lives both alone and remotely is besieged by a sadistic criminal.
I don't have time, just spoil it for me? The killer kills both of her neighbours, but she eventually outsmarts him by deafening him with an alarm and blinding him with mace. He's dead while the police arrive and she's still kinda alive.
What is the meaning of the title? She's mute, and thus hushed? That's pretty lame.
Anything that's not aged well? Does a woman get slapped around? It's 2016, so it's not that recent, but a woman gets choked; the villain is shown to be evil by having neck tattoos, which is different now, as having neck tattoos is proof that you're 20. How's that going to age, I wonder? Also of note, it appears that the actor portraying a deaf woman is merely pretending to be deaf-mute ('acting' if you will), and I think that wouldn't be allowed to fly today. Weird.
Any thoughts? All
through this I thought of that joke 'did you hear the one about the
deaf girl? Neither did she' - which had me rolling my eyes, as did
some of the decision making of her character: She's trapped in her
house for essentially the entire movie. The killer arrives at minute
20 - and she doesn't go upstairs before minute 35. Despite it being a better defensible position, she
ruins her chance to really get the guy by knocking him off the window
shortly after that. The killer is also able to kill a much larger man
(the neighbour) who is too stupid to snap the neck of the little
wretch as he slowly bleeds out. He's also hinted at having killed many more people than here, but goes about it like an amateur. Just dumb stuff all round.
Also, did she call the police by Skype? Good luck getting that to happen in real life.
Would you recommend this? It was passable, a woman-in-peril home invasion movie with the hook of the woman being deaf, which is pretty tense, and which has the good grace to be over quickly, so I can't fault it for that. Fine.
Final thoughts? The fire alarm which her non-deaf friend hears and complains about at the beginning (Chekov's fire alarm) was always going to make an appearance by the end, and killing the main character would have been a bit grim, so I'm kind of glad it was predictable and that even the cat survived. I also don't need to see this or think of it again, so... onwards and upwards!
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