Rose Da Silva

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Do-Gooder
Full Name	Rose Da Silva
Alias(es)	None
Origin	Silent Hill (Film)
Occupation	Unknown
Powers / Skills	No information
Hobby	Being a loving mother
Goals	Found her daughter Sharon
Family	Christopher Da Silva (husband) Sharon Da Silva (adoptive daughter)
Friends / Allies	Cybil Bennett Dahlia Gillespie Dark Alessa
Enemies	Christabella Pyramid Head The Brethren
Type of Hero	Parent Heroine

“	Honey, the adoption people said Sharon comes from West Virginia, and Silent Hill is in West Virginia. I'm not giving up on her, Chris, I'm not!	„
	~ Rose discusses her reasoning for taking Sharon to Silent Hill.

Rose Da Silva is the main protagonist of the Silent Hill film. She is the wife of Christopher Da Silva and the adoptive mother of Sharon Da Silva.

Rose's role in the film is similar to that of Harry Mason from the first Silent Hill video game.

Biography 

Little is known about Rose's life before adopting Sharon, other than "she's a very rich woman who, until the film begins, has led an untroubled life." and she lives in Ohio.

When she and her husband Christopher adopted Sharon, they loved her with all their heart, but could not control her sleepwalking. They eventually put her on medication, hoping to calm these nightly activities. Despite this and constant visits to doctors, Sharon continued to sleepwalk and Rose was eventually forced to make a choice: she could either have Sharon institutionalized for the rest of her life, or run the risk that her daughter would eventually die in one of these sleepwalking episodes.

Desperate to avoid either of these outcomes, Rose decides to take Sharon to Silent Hill, West Virginia, the town Sharon would talk about in her sleep. Rose has researched Silent Hill on the Internet and it is likely that she only wanted to drive through Silent Hill with the car windows closed, aware of the toxic fumes. Hopefully, Sharon would remember something about Silent Hill and be cured.

Silent Hill

After narrowly stopping Sharon from throwing herself off the face of a cliff in a sleepwalking fugue, Rose takes her 9-year-old daughter and makes the trip to Silent Hill. In doing so, she defies her husband, who does not want Rose to find the town, and who believes Sharon should be institutionalized.

On the way to Silent Hill, Rose encounters a police officer named Cybil Bennett at a gas station, raising the officer's suspicions when Sharon begins to yell and cry about the destruction of her drawings, which Sharon herself had drawn over while in a trance. Later, Cybil pulls Rose over, but the worried mother speeds off and begins a high-speed chase to escape the curious cop and reach her destination.

After swerving her car to avoid hitting a girl on the road, Rose is transported to the Fog World, where she searches for her missing daughter. After chasing a child who she thinks is Sharon, Rose finds herself in the Fog World's darker side, the Otherworld. There, she becomes so frightened by the sudden appearance of childlike monsters that she blacks out, awakening once more in the Fog World. She then attempts to flee the bowling alley where she had encountered the monsters, but instead discovers that the road out of town mysteriously ends, falling off into nothingness.

There, she is confronted by Dahlia Gillespie, an old woman who claims Sharon is her child, not Rose's. Dahlia frightens Rose so much that Rose shoves her to the ground and runs off, returning to her car on the other side of town. In the car, she finds one of Sharon's drawings, depicting a child trapped in a school with several demons. Cybil finds Rose at the same time, and arrests her for speeding off, but her opinion of Rose is changed significantly when the pair are confronted by an armless monster. Rose flees Cybil and heads to Midwich Elementary School.

Inside, Rose finds the desk of someone named Alessa Gillespie with "witch" on it. She continuously chases the fleeing form of what she thinks is Sharon, and flees scary figures in mining gear who chase her with weapons and are potentially dangerous. Rose chases Sharon's figure into into a washroom; in one stall, she reaches into a dead man's mouth to obtain a clue. The Otherworld comes, and Rose tries to find a way out.Unable to handle the darkness of the Otherworld, Rose collapses on the floor, sobbing and feeling like she can't continue. Ironically, the one person Rose needs the most at that time, Chris, is standing right next to her, but the two cannot see each other, as they are in separate realities. She is saved by Cybil Bennett, who drags her into a janitor's closet, where the two women escape death at the giant blade of Pyramid Head. Suddenly, the Pyramid Head ceases his pursuit, and the Otherworld transforms into the Fog World.

From there, Rose and Cybil explore the Grand Hotel where they neet a local woman named Anna. They discover the way to a Sacrificial Chamber. While chasing Sharon's figure, Rose jumps across a dangerous hole. Rose asks the girl if she's Alessa, but the girl burns and appears. Rose reveals that she now believes that Alessa was the one who made her crash her car while driving into the town. The Otherworld returns, and the three women rush to a nearby church, where Rose is forced to watch as Anna is skinned alive by Pyramid Head. Rose and Cybil soon meet Christabella, the priestess of a fanatical cult. Christabella tells Rose that a "demon" is controlling the town, and that she must confront the "demon" to find Sharon. Rose takes on a clear dislike of Christabella immediately, demanding to know why the other woman's personal religious beliefs should define everyone else's truth. Regardless, Rose decides to trust Christabella. Christabella leads Rose and Cybil to Brookhaven Hospital, where she says a demon wearing the face of an innocent lies in wait.

Upon discovering Sharon's picture in Rose's locket, Christabella condemns both Rose and Cybil as witches, but Rose manages to escape the clutches of the cult by Cybil sacrificing her freedom. An elevator takes Rose into the Otherworld version of the hospital, where she confronts several dark nurses, before finding her way to the room Christabella said was the demon's lair. In the room, Dark Alessa, the manifestation of the dark part of Alessa, tells Rose the truth because she feels that she deserves it: Dark Alessa was the one who led all of the clues throughout the town in order to test Rose's love for Sharon and see if Rose is a worthy mother to be her new mother. Rose learns about the past of Silent Hill, and that Sharon is the manifestation of the remaining purity of a child named Alessa, who was burned alive as a witch by the fanatical cult 30 years before. Rose brokers a deal with Dark Alessa and agrees to help Alessa and Dark Alessa to take revenge on the cultists, in exchange for Sharon's safety. Rose then enters the church and tells the cultists the truth, causing Christabella to stab her with a dagger pulled from beneath her robes. As Rose's blood drips onto the floor, a portal into the Otherworld is opened and Alessa and Dark Alessa rise into the church to take their final revenge. Rose finds Sharon and tries to hide her from the carnage, telling her "It's only a dream." While Rose keeps her head turned away from Sharon, Dark Alessa approaches, causing the two sides of Alessa's soul to reunite into a single body.

When the massacre passes, Rose leaves the church with a recombined version of Alessa, though whether Rose realizes this or not is unclear. As they leave the church, Rose proves that she understands Alessa better than her own mother does, telling Dahlia that Alessa did not kill her because "Mother is God in the eyes of a child". Rose drives Alessa/Sharon back to their home; along the way, Rose calls Chris to let them know they are coming.

When Rose and Sharon/Alessa return, however, they are still trapped in the Fog World. Rose sits quietly and stares into space with a small smile on her face.

Silent Hill: Revelation 

Rose is only seen once in Silent Hill: Revelation, where she appears in a mirror to speak to Chris soon after she disappears in Silent Hill. She tells Chris that she has found a seal that allowed her to return Sharon into the real world, but that she was forced to stay behind. She makes Chris promise to keep Sharon away from Silent Hill, and then disappears.

When Heather, an older, renamed version of Sharon, meets Leonard Wolf, he reveals that Rose stole half of the Seal of Metatron from him.

A scene of Rose speaking to Heather was filmed for Silent Hill: Revelation, but not included for an unknown reason. The scene depicted Rose calling to Heather demanding for her to run, only for them to be separated by the Missionary. Why Rose is still wearing the same clothes and has the same hairstyle 6 years after the events of the first film is not explained.

At the end of the film, Chris tells Heather and Vincent Cooper that he cannot leave Silent Hill yet, and stays in the town to search for his missing wife.

Trivia

• The director of the Silent Hill film felt Harry was feminine in nature, leading to his character being replaced with Rose Da Silva for the film. He also stated that he wanted Silent Hill to be a matriarchal world, which he could not have accomplished by having a male lead character. Some fans felt it was a sexist decision because it implied a father wouldn't care about his child as much as a mother would.

• Rose's name was originally Rose DeSalvo in the early script. This was changed less than two months before filming and appears on one of her prop driver's licenses. Her original name was likely a reference to Andrew DeSalvo from Silent Hill 4: The Room.

• A prop of Rose's driver's license reveals that Rose's birth date is August 8, 1970 and that she lives in Sidney, Ohio.

• In the original script, Rose reveals her leg was once badly broken in a car accident as a child, and her "insides were crushed".[1]

• There were over 100 different outfits made for Radha Mitchell, changing subtly from a dark chocolate shade to blood-red. These outfits symbolized the Fog World and Otherworld affecting Rose, most noticeable when she enters "the core of the darkness" (Alessa's hospital room), and her outfit instantly turns blood red.

• Director Christophe Gans has stated that the scene of Rose laying with Sharon under a tree is meant to depict Rose's "personal paradise", which includes the one thing Rose loves more than anything else: Sharon.^[1]

• Throughout Silent Hill, Rose becomes stronger and more determined in her search for Sharon, performing several dangerous stunts, including leaping over a gaping pit to find Dark Alessa, descending into the Otherworld and facing a group of undead nurses. According to the director, this determination turned Rose from an initially unsympathetic character into one the audience could identify with.

• Rose originally was supposed to have black hair. This description of Rose lasted until Radha Mitchell was hired to portray her, and was even drawn into the film's storyboard artwork.