WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for There's Someone Inside Your House, now streaming on Netflix.
In Netflix's There's Someone Inside Your House, it does seem like Makani (Sydney Park) is the biggest victim in the film. She was forced into a hazing at her old school, caused a scary accident, went on trial and then had to leave with a new identity to piece her life together. However, as the movie rolls on and we see Makani and her friends alienating a key character, by the time this person becomes part of the slasher's rampage, they're the biggest victim of the movie.
Now, this isn't to knock Makani's story as it's quite tragic. She burned a fellow athlete, Jasmine, by pushing her into a bonfire as she was drunk from the hazing session, which means she's been harboring this guilt in the small Nebraska town of Osborne. It's why the slasher tries to burn her alive, all because of the secret and two-faced side to her, but it's actually her crush, Ollie, who suffers most.
Firstly, Ollie's a recluse who's constantly denigrated by Makani's crew. They call him all sorts of names and bully him, whether at school or at parties, which is odd as they're supposed to be woke and accepting. Yet they buy into rumors he helped kill his parents, when in reality they died in a car crash.
It's sad to see Makani's inner circle, who tout up how they're outcasts, putting Ollie down without even knowing his history, berating him as a "sociopath" at all turns. The fact Makani doesn't defend him after knowing all this, or lets her crew know she's with Ollie and he's much more than these rumors suggest, are all messed up on her part. The sad thing is, Ollie keeps coming back to her as they're truly vulnerable with each other, and he thinks they're soulmates. Makani, though, doesn't seem to care for true love, letting him get heat.
Secondly, as he's vilified, he still looks out for her knowing a slasher is on the loose. It's a travesty because Makani ends up buying into the hype when she realizes he stole a taser -- a weapon used to help kill their buddy, Rodrigo -- mind you, she knows his brother's a cop and Ollie could have stolen it from him for protection. Makani, sadly, tells the cops she briefly unmasked her attacker and gets Ollie sent to jail by blaming him.
It's heartbreaking as there's no reason to do this, other than her friends' obnoxious and presumptuous words gaslit her. Ollie really deserves better than being ragged on, hidden and framed like this, just so Makani could feel good about herself and believe in her friends who are clearly the same as the superficial and judgmental people they preach against.
The icing on the cake comes in the finale when a freed Ollie still helps the squad out, confronting the killer with Makani. He gets stabbed for his troubles, though, only to tase the slasher, setting up Makani's kill. The fact the film glosses over everyone apologizing to him afterward sums it up, as it just shows him and Makani in a happy ending attending prom and graduation. It's not cool because Ollie feels more like a prop than a character, which sucks as he did so much heavy lifting to save a girl who never believed in his virtue.
See how Ollie suffers a massive injustice in There's Someone Inside Your House, now streaming on Netflix.
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