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It checks all the boxes of great horror masks. And I would have loved it all the more if I wasn’t thinking about how much blood the neighbor had in her. Which is kind of a shame because that black comedy scene where the killer (and his character’s name is literally just fucking “Man”), is trying to get Maddie to notice him and then starting to put together that she’s deaf is top notch.
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Jack: I’m not sure if that bothered me as much as it did you, but I can’t say that I didn’t notice it. Because of that there was at least a three second sequence where I was forced to believe she was actually an alien or some shit and our masked elf-man is heroically saving the planet from utter annihilation. I’m no med student, but I’m guessing if someone was stabbed that many times, there would at least be enough blood to soak her shirt. He notices that the girl inside appears to gives zero fucks about all his hard-earned scariness so he just keeps stabbing away. Then she takes an arrow to the back out of nowhere, and a masked dude scurries up and proceeds to stab her at least thirteen times.
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Her neighbor comes running back to the house bloody and screaming and starts banging on the windows causing a whole scene. Anyway, when her neighbor leaves, Maddie goes back to cooking and what do we get? We get a Legolas. Jake: I just don’t think there’s any science supporting that theory. And look, both women’s acting is quite good, and I’m trying to say it’s the worst exposition ever or anything, but it still got to me.
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If the filmmakers had just done that for all the necessary exposition, then Maddie and her neighbor could have had a normal conversation that didn’t pick apart the immersion the movie was already starting to establish. That felt totally normal, as those things are expositional in real life, and repeated some of the information we just learned from the forced dialog with the neighbor. Jack: I didn’t get that at all, but who am I to say what the hell was going on in that twisted brain of yours? In any case, the exposition wouldn’t have been quite as frustrating if it hadn’t immediately cut to a much more adept way of handling it: the neighbor gives Maddie’s book back and the camera lingers on the “About the Author” fold on the inside of the cover. The way this whole sequence of the film was shot, with them texting and joking before she came over just seemed flirtatious. Jake: I’m not really sure why, but at first, I thought the girl next door was her girlfriend or potential love interest. We also get exposure to Chekhov’s fucking fire alarm. Don’t worry about it, that'll make sense later. Although it’s not all bad unlike some scenes of exposition in other movies, the neighbor character doesn’t feel unnecessary, and how long it takes her to walk over to Maddie’s actually does start to instill a little nagging feeling of isolation. We also get some stuff about how Maddie’s working on her new book, how she can read lips, and how she lost her hearing. Maddie’s neighbor has come over to tell her about how good her newly published book was. I put next door in quotes there because they’re in the middle of the dang woods, so it’s not really next door, but it’s clear that she’s only a few hundred yards down the road. Unfortunately, that refreshing gem of non-exposition fades all too quickly as Maddie’s “next door” neighbor comes over to say hi. I agree that it felt like a very original way to establish her deafness. When the direction flipped a switch and made it silent/muffled, you immediately understand she is deaf. Jake: It was pretty intense, and I found it was an effective way to convey what Maddie’s issues are without having to break into a ton of exposition to explain it.