Don’t Breathe (2016) – Ending Explained

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First published: 19 September 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Will It End There?

Rocky and Alex are now faced another terror, which is the blind man’s dog. The blind man’s dog is awake, and he chases Alex out of the room and onto the roof.

When Alex wakes up, the old man shoots at the skylight and tortures him.

Rocky tries to sneak into one vent but is chased by a vicious dog until she slips through. When she awakes, she finds herself tied to a chain and beaten up like Cindy.

He tells her that Cindy has to replace his daughter. He then forcefully tried to inseminate Rocky, but suddenly Alex appeared and arrested him.

Rocky and Alex escape by running outside the house through the front door and out the back window.

Blind man escapes from handcuffs and shoots Alex. Alex dies while the blind man’s dog runs after Rocky.

She hides inside a car and traps a big brown dog in the trunk.

Will They Be Safe?

Rocky escapes, but the old man catches and drags her down the street to his house. Rocky sets off a fire alarm in order to disorient the old man.

She also repeatedly attacks him with a crowbar. We hear a gunshot as Rocky pushes him into the basement.

Rocky escapes with the money. We see Rocky leaving the station with her younger sister Didy, and they board a train.

She finds a news report about the old man but realizes that he is still alive. She hears the report that says that there were only two people passed away in self-defense.

Rocky knows that the blind man knowingly did not report about her, but it makes her curious and scared about the veteran’s plans for her.

The Blind Man is very good at torturing people. Even when he is trying to induce Rocky to become pregnant, it is still very painful to watch.

It is that moment when the man defines himself as grim, and he said something like, ‘I am the one who has more grime in my soul than all the sewers in the world combined’, plunging our conscience into the deepest caverns of emotional filth.

Even if Rocky escapes, we get the feeling that the blind man has severely scarred her and that she will live a life where she will never spare her time to help disabled people or to help those who are lonely.

What Does the Ending Mean?

The blind man’s vicious whip, ornate and traumatizing, will forever latch on to Rocky after her misadventures.

She might lead a confident life and believe that things will go better tomorrow, but if she lives quietly, the sightless man’s eyes will always follow her everywhere.

The director of ‘Don’t Breathe’ is trying to create a new psychological test for people who are afraid to admit that they feel traumatized emotionally.

The film will have its gaze charging on us even if we try to bury it in the barrage of horror flicks released every year.

‘Don’t Breathe’s’ suggestion for the horror genre would be something like, ‘Do not wake a sleeping blind man’.

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