Movie Hush

Blog Post to Nick Toti

Nick Toti is a Truman State University graduate who is purchasing a career of film direction. His wife is a scriptwriter. Both of Nick and his wife lost direction after getting their bachelor’s degree, and both of them decided to gain a master's degree in Truman, where they found their new direction.

Hush is a horror movie similar to Don’t Breath. The reason why I decided to watch this movie was its rating was a little higher compared to other Netflix Original movies. Honestly, I don’t like Netflix original very much which was not as good as its original TV show. It is hard to connect to this horror movie to you Nick Toti, the positive young director, but I have to do it.

The protagonist was a deaf-mute writer Madison, who lived in an isolated house in a forest. After her friend and neighbor Sarah came to visit her and returned her books, Sarah was chased back to Madison house and killed by a masked man. The man took Madison’s phone, cut off the power in the house, and decided to kill Madison after he realized she was deaf-muted. Sarah’s boyfriend came to the house to look for her girlfriend, but was killed by the man too. Strangling by the man, Madison began to lose her conscious, however, before she became unconscious, she managed to grab a corkscrew and stabbed in the man’s throat.

Without screaming and crying, Hush was a very different movie compared to the normal horror movie. Even though the movie lack of sound effect, the director still set up a successful horrible atmosphere. This movie gave audiences a special experience of horror movie. Audience can feel the protagonist’s desperation via her facial expression and body language.

One thing interesting me was that, when Madison sat on the floor desperately, there was an inside voice talk to Madison. Madison talked to herself that she could not run because of her bleeding leg, she could not hide, and the one way to survive was to kill the man. Inner speech is important to our cognition to the outside world and ourselves. With my limited knowledge, I tend to hold a view that writers would have more inner speech compared to ordinary people because they always sit with silent and write their story down. I wonder if a script writer would have more inner speech compared to common people that are not writers?

In this film, the protagonist seemed to very enjoy her isolated life. I am interested in why the protagonist would like to live in an isolated house. It was easy to understand that a quiet environment contribute to the creation process, but is it necessary to live in an isolated place? Some people like to work at midnight in order to get an inspiration, but the protagonist was a deaf person which keeps her away from any noise. Living inside wood is a horrible thing. Maybe horror can inspire one’s creation.

In all, Hush was a great movie.